Airtel has rolled out a campaign for the launch of its 4G offering, conceptualised by Taproot Dentsu. A film that is part of the campaign is set on a terrace in a residential area of a small town. The stage is prepared for a contest, a keenly awaited one at that. A table is the […]
A third now see their smartphone as the preferred device to access the internet, while 4G subscriptions grew tenfold over the course of last year. Smartphones have now overtaken laptops as the most popular device for getting online, with record ownership and use key drivers. This is according to Ofcom’s 2015 Communications Market Report, published, […]
Working with Wieden + Kennedy, Old Spice has created a wild and wacky choose-your-own-adventure social experience on Instagram. Using the tagging feature in Instagram, the main Old Spice Instagram account leads to other accounts specially created to tell the story. You awaken in a dark cave. In the distance you see a faint light, in […]
About 40 per cent of global eCommerce transactions involve multiple devices prior to purchase, highlighted Criteo in its Q2 results. Mobile commerce accounted for 27 per cent of all eCommerce in Southeast Asia, putting the region at a similar level to Spain and Italy, and right behind the US. The APAC region accounted for nearly […]
I-D, the fashion title owned by Vice, has set up an online luxury lifestyle channel called Amuse. The video and editorial platform is aimed at a “young and culturally conscious international audience”. Xerxes Cook, the founding editor of Purple Travel and Postmatter, has been named the editor-in-chief at Amuse. Tash Tan has been appointed the […]
An ad agency in Singapore has added to the SG50 marketing frenzy with an idea to translate the colloquial language of Singlish into emojis, the pictorial language used by smartphone users. The SGMOJI guide, created by BBDO Singapore, can be downloaded from this website. Among the entries in the SGMOJI guide are ‘Talk cock’, a favoured phrase among politicians to […]
The most luxurious store in the world, since 1707, Fortnum & Mason approached The Yard Creative to help them learn more about their customer base and to discover how recent initiatives had changed customer perception of the brand. The customer research activities that The Yard Creative undertook on behalf of Fortnum & Mason needed to […]
“Mobile advertising as a whole is just fairly crappy,” said Sebastian Tomich, The New York Times senior VP of advertising and innovation. Mr. Tomich isn’t saying anything controversial. Most people seem to agree that those thin horizontal banners pinned to the bottom of publishers’ mobile sites haven’t won many fans. Neither have the full-screen interstitial […]
Ziploc has just unveiled a second installment in the brand’s digital film series—Little Beasts. The series, which launched earlier this year, takes a comedic look at some of the most chaotic scenarios provided by raising children. The videos make the point that while Ziploc can’t stop the crazy, they can help contain the chaos. The […]
Genesis Media, which surveyed more than 11,500 US adults in late May and early June, found that while 24 percent of respondents installed ad blockers on either their home or work computers, just 3 percent did so on their smartphones or tablets. Two things immediately jump out from those statistics: First, marketers already had plenty […]