Supermarket chain Waitrose is to become the new Team Sponsor of England Cricket after signing a three-year deal with the England & Wales Cricket Board. From next year the Waitrose logo will feature on all England teams playing and training wear starting with the Investec Test Series against Sri Lanka in May 2014 through to […]
Volkswagen takes advantage of YouTube’s own technology in this video project by Almap BBDO, designed to highlight the car’s “side assist” feature for sensing objects in your blind spot. In the web film, a man invites you to see how good it would be if the future was predictable, by placing your mouse on YouTube’s […]
Bless This House’ star Sally Geeson is spearheading a major national television advertising campaign for Anglian Home Improvements. The much loved comedy actress is the face of Anglian’s TV campaign ‘The Dream Is On’, which launched on 1 May and will be running for the rest of the year. Focusing on key Anglian products including […]
The leading commercial model agency, MOT Models, confirms that the UK digital advertising market is in exceptionally strong health. An analysis of all of the model bookings invoiced in the first quarter of 2013 shows that digital usage of model imagery now accounts for 59 per cent of all of the agency’s bookings. Digital usage […]
It’s interesting to see a second screen approach for radio. Forsman & Bodenfors have created an interactive radio player for computers, tablets and mobile to encourage sharing radio programmes via social media. It’s a very simple concept, well executed. Think of it as sound cloud for radio, and built for sharing on facebook. The more content […]
The marketing campaign for Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is ramping up with the electronics manufacturer taking over London’s IMAX cinema for a striking out-of-home stunt. The takeover is the first of its kind for the brand and was organised through Cheil UK. Samsung’s UK marketing campaign recently kicked off with the broadcast of the first of […]
Global sports good industry player adidas has announced “The adidas Fellowship for Future Data Talentsâ€, a scholarship fund for international students. The scholarship is developed in partnership with digital learning institute Hyper Island, and established to support and nurture tomorrow’s talent within data driven strategy and marketing. For the last years, data has been part […]
Sony is shaking up its global agency relationships, with reviews of the mobile and electronics media accounts coinciding with the appointment of Adam & Eve/DDB to handle global advertising for Sony Mobile The company is holding two separate media pitches. A series of regional pitches for the Sony Electronics account are taking place alongside a […]
A ‘Passion Drives Us All’ ad has been created to promote a partnership between the Qatar Foundation and FC Barcelona. Created by TBWA, the ad features Barcelona stars, including Lionel Messi, and is designed to raise awareness and celebrate the work done between the Qatar Foundation and FC Barcelona. The partnership is creating programmes and […]
Once the preserve of a select few major metro dailies, digital paywalls have been implemented aggressively by publishers over the last year, helping boost daily circulation figures at a range of publications Yet progress was uneven at best, with many newspapers still suffering substantial declines — especially at the regional level, notes the Alliance for […]