Businesses struggling to reach customers during the Covid-19 crisis are being offered £1,000,000 of heavily discounted media space. That’s thanks to British agency Edit, part of Kin + Carta (who specialise in media, technology and data) and its partner network. The ‘CrEdit’ fund set up by Edit, will offer TV airtime, Media Inserts, Print and other marketing services […]
Business Disruption from Coronavirus Means B2B Marketers Must Align with Sales to Effectively Engage High-Value Prospects and Customers
B2B buyers increasingly leverage both marketing and sales-led channels throughout the buying process, but often fail to realize their true value due to differing priorities between marketing and sales departments, according to Gartner, Inc. “Effective B2B demand generation relies on collaboration between marketing and sales. In this current environment with coronavirus-related business disruption impacting businesses around […]
In response to the Labour Party’s call for ad agencies to apply creative thinking to coronavirus messaging, creative studio Make It Red has put together a series of in-store posters designed to nudge supermarket shoppers into taking a more public-spirited approach to filling their trollies. Copywriter Simon Kirkham and art director Mark Beacock created a campaign in […]
Elmwood, the brand design consultancy, has named Sabrina Ahmed as Client Partner at its Leeds office, with a brief to lead on all retail clients, as well as managing the Client Services team. Sabrina joins from Tesco, where she was Head of Brand, a role she took up in 2016. During her time there she worked […]
Today, Women’s Aid Federation of England – the national domestic abuse charity – has launched ‘The Lockdown’, a chilling campaign raising awareness of the increased dangers of domestic abuse during the Covid-19 lockdown period. The work, by ENGINE Creative and production company Knucklehead, draws attention to the empty streets and public spaces throughout the UK […]
We Are Social, the global socially-led creative agency network, has launched Do The Right Thing: The Role of Social In Covid-19 – a report examining best practices for brands on social media during this global crisis. The report, available to download here, looks at how consumer needs and behaviours are changing due to the impact […]
Aim is to support SMEs affected by coronavirus
Ocean Outdoor, a UK market leader in premium digital outdoor advertising, has launched an advertising fund to offer support to the retailers and SMEs most severely affected by the coronavirus crisis. www.oceanoutdoor.com/SMEfund A fund with a media value of £10 million has been established, giving businesses and brands access to advertising space across Ocean screens in 12 UK cities. The […]
The film offers a meditative road trip through the beautiful Australian countryside, behind the wheel of an Audi A6 ‘The Drive’ is available to watch on Monday, April 6th at 14:00 AEST on Audi Australia Facebook and YouTube channels
With the world confined indoors, Audi is offering a way to reconnect with house-bound Australians through the freedom of the open road. Together with partner social media agency We Are Social Australia, Audi Australia has created ‘The Drive’, a 4-hour long slow TV film that allows viewers to experience the soothing nature of a long road […]
FEAR has two interpretations: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise
When threatened with adversity and scarcity, unlike we have ever experienced before, we all deal with fear in different ways. No matter what our fears are, human nature takes its course. Scientifically speaking, fear is an emotional response to a ‘perceived’ threat that may or may not happen. In our case, Covid-19 has happened, it’s […]
New research has shown that the UK’s social media conversations during the coronavirus pandemic have focused on ‘community’: the number of posts on social platforms using that word has jumped 82% over the past month. It’s being driven largely by older Brits: nearly half (47%) of posts mentioning community or community spirit have come from […]