WARC: 24% of brands and agencies surveyed expect voice interfaces to be important to their business

WARC: 24% of brands and agencies surveyed expect voice interfaces to be important to their business

Voice-enabled technology, from smart speakers to virtual assistants, is opening an entirely new interface through which brands and consumers will engage and communicate in 2018, according to WARC, the global marketing intelligence service, following a survey with more than 600 marketing and advertising professionals around the world for its Toolkit 2018 report. Voice is swiftly […]

Cossette Uses The Hand’s Lifeline in Poetic Film for Humanity & Inclusion

Cossette Uses The Hand’s Lifeline in Poetic Film for Humanity & Inclusion

Humanity & Inclusion (formerly Handicap International) and agency Cossette Montreal releases a new commercial ‘Lifeline’ that tells real-life stories of trauma and resilience of vulnerable populations facing conflict, disaster, poverty and exclusion. Filmed in refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border, the launch campaign, directed by Olivier Staub and produced by Morrison, combines both live action […]

RPM celebrates 25 years of creating brand experiences

RPM celebrates 25 years of creating brand experiences

Independent creative agency RPM celebrates their 25th birthday this month. The agency was launched in 1993 and remains independent to this day. Founded in Jan ’93 by three friends, RPM began in a cowshed on a working farm near Wokingham, with each of them raising just £5,000 to launch. “Before receiving visiting clients, we had […]

Gramercy Park Studios Marks Fifth Anniversary with Two New Hires

Gramercy Park Studios Marks Fifth Anniversary with Two New Hires

Off the back of a record year of growth in 2017, Gramercy Park Studios expands its team with two new hires. Esther Berglund and Jonathan Watkins join the post production facility’s VFX and CG departments as the post production studio turns five. Esther Berglund joins Gramercy Park Studios as a Flame Artist. She established her […]

Media iQ appoints Nicola Young as Vice President of Marketing EMEA

Media iQ appoints Nicola Young as Vice President of Marketing EMEA

Media iQ, the leading global analytics and technology company, announces the appointment of Nicola Young (née Thomson) as Vice President of Marketing EMEA. She joins having previously held the Director of Media position at Estée Lauder Companies (UK&I) and prior to this, she was Group Director of Marketing at Global Radio. In her new role, […]

Serviceplan become first German agency group pledging to Free The Bid for Women Directors

Serviceplan become first German agency group pledging to Free The Bid for Women Directors

It’s impossible not to notice that a global women’s equality movement has been rapidly gathering pace across Film, TV, politics and the advertising industry in the past year. Starting with grass roots movements such as the Women’s March on Washington in 2016 which sparked similar protests around the world including the global Women’s March, and […]