Holiday Extras, the UK’s market leader for travel extras, announced the appointment of Adrian Kemsley as Creative Director with an objective to turn Holiday Extras into a household name. The 37-year-old business turns over more than £400m and makes 6m reservations a year for travellers, but with just over 50% prompted brand awareness it may […]
Primesight announced the installation of InLinks in Glasgow with brands and marketers being the first to access the technology in Scotland, ahead of a roll out to a further five cities across the UK. InLinks are fully-accessible community structures that are helping to connect and improve local streets in urban centres. The first InLinks have […]
Dublin-based creative agency, In The Company Of Huskies, launched an intriguing print campaign for literacy charity, Suas. The campaign, developed by Cannes Young Lions winners and creative duo, Emily Blaney and Niamh Ryan, utilises newspaper print to deliver a powerful message – ‘when you can read everything, it changes everything.’ The two-sided newspaper ad contains […]
Paddy Power have unveiled a new mobile unit ‘The Drunk Tank’ ahead of Royal Ascot on June 19, following a spate of alcohol-fuelled brawls at race meetings. The Drunk Tank service will provide temporary accommodation for up to 50 racing fans to sleep off the booze in clear-sided 6 x 2 meter container mounted […]
Oath, a Verizon subsidiary, kicks off the Cannes Lions Festival with new opportunities for brands to engage with consumers through extended reality (XR) ad experiences. Combining the art of brand building and the science of data, new 3D ad formats and first-in-market programmatic VR ads represent the company’s latest premium ad innovation for consumers to […]
Mobile advertising will account for 30.5% of global advertising expenditure in 2020, up from 19.2% in 2017, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published on June 18. Expenditure on mobile advertising will total US$187bn in 2020, more than twice the US$88bn spent on desktop advertising, and just US$5bn behind the US$192bn spent on television advertising. At […]
In celebration of VIA Rail’s 40th anniversary, the Canadian railway company, together with Cossette, launched the Canada-wide VIA40 campaign and contest with a historic twist. Together, they created tickets upcycled from the steel of a major part of VIA Rail’s history to mark the milestone. VIA Rail is reusing its past to propel 40 […]
Drum and OMD UK launch Eurotunnel’s Summer campaign in partnership with Mission Impossible: Fallout across digital, cinema and social. Created by Drum, with media strategy, planning and buying handled by OMD UK, the ad uses the iconic Mission Impossible music and parallel themes to show how getting your family on holiday is in fact a mission […]
As far as the Brazilian beer brand, Skol, was concerned, there was lots of support for Iceland on June 17. Despite being the country with the smallest population to enter the competition, the beer brand launched a campaign for Brazilians to increase their number of supporters. There are many reasons for this support. Brazil […]
Radisson RED, Radisson Hotel Group’s upscale hotel brand that aims to inject new life into hospitality through a focus on informal services, the latest technology, and bold design, has landed in Glasgow. To mark its arrival the hotel has launched its first TV ad campaign, created by BrandCap. Glasgow is the fifth location for the […]