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 […]
Full-service marketing agency PMW Communications has been appointed by The Not Forgotten Association to produce a twice-weekly YouTube-based entertainment show aimed at supporting the older generation during the Covid-19 crisis. Every year the charity, which supports those serving or who have served in the British Armed Forces, organises a number of concerts to entertain thousands of veterans and residents in care homes. Due to the current pandemic the charity’s planned 2020 tour had to […]
London-based A&E doctor Jack Manley setup DeliverAid to deliver free, nourishing meals to on-shift NHS colleagues. Jack approached Rehab Agency to create a new platform that enables the public to donate money that goes towards cooking and delivering pre-prepared meals to NHS workers. DeliverAid aims to support the struggling hospitality industry by working with local food businesses, such as The Quality Chop House, 40 Maltby Street and Ombra - who have pledged to provide meals, helping support a struggling hospitality industry More than 200 healthy meals have already been successfully delivered to Whipps Cross, Royal London, and Homerton Hospital DeliverAid is now welcoming public donations here
As a response to the NHS facing unprecedented challenges in the face of Covid-19, London-based A&E doctor Jack Manley has launched DeliverAid – raising public donations to feed our frontline NHS heroes as they put their lives on the line to protect ours. Less than 24 hours after being drafted into the fight against Coronavirus, […]
The charity Marie Curie has launched an emergency appeal campaign with work created, at no cost, by Saatchi & Saatchi to raise the donations it needs to fund its vital work caring for terminally ill people during the current crisis. Marie Curie and Saatchi & Saatchi are appealing to advertisers and media owners to donate media space unused […]
Second wave of Havas Media Group Covid-19 Media Behaviours Report also reveals greater need for connection amongst respondents
UK media consumption has continued to rise in the last two weeks, with huge gains across live TV, video, social media and video streaming, according to the latest Havas Media Group Covid-19 Media Behaviours Report. The second iteration of Havas Media Group’s Covid-19 Media Behaviours Report, a research study into consumer behaviour and media consumption based on a […]