A ghoulish old lady was spotted in various commuter hotspots around London this morning, giving commuters a rush-hour shock on their way to work. Office workers were stunned to witness the bizarre, spine-chilling scene of the sinister senior styled with prosthetic horror make up, riding the Jubilee Line train on a vintage rocking chair. The […]
Yonder Media, the agency formed earlier in 2018 by The Beyond Collective, has created a spoof ChatBot Media Planner that claims to offer clients a perfect replica of their current agency service in Chatbot form. Calling itself “the world’s first chatbot-powered media planning tool”, it offers to analyse each advertiser’s specific requirements before producing a […]
The charity Guide Dogs is launching its latest DRTV advert to raise funds for its ‘Sponsor a Puppy’ campaign. Created by Proximity London, the activity aims to recruit new donors and increase the average gift by demonstrating the dramatic impact that a guide dog can have on someone’s life. Every single day 250 people […]
Interbrand has announced Apple, Google, and Amazon are the three most valuable brands in its 2018 Best Global Brands report, with luxury and retail as the two dominant sectors. Now in its 19th year, the report’s 2018 theme is Activating Brave, and examines the role that brand strength plays in the bold transformation of the […]
Research released on October 4 has shown that retailers that focus their marketing budgets on social media and smartphone campaigns might be on the wrong track – across the UK, fewer than one in ten shoppers (9%) say that social media forms part of their purchase journey. In addition, more than half (54%) still use […]
The omnipotence of social media means that brands face a stark challenge to remain relevant to an ever-evolving Generation Z being forced to live BETA test their identity, reveals the findings of a new white paper by leading youth creative agency ZAK. As the first generation to truly come of age during the social […]
World Vision UK have appointed VCCP to be their lead creative agency, following a competitive four-way pitch. The fully-integrated agency will be working on creating a strategic brand narrative for the charity, as well as on specific campaigns across the year – starting straight away with the 2018 Christmas campaign. Sally Bownes, Head of Brand […]
Global socially-led creative agency We Are Social has promoted Lill Skjerdal and Garrett Dearey to the newly created roles of head of delivery and head of partnerships, respectively. Skjerdal was formerly head of production at We Are Social, where she has spent the last four years. In her new role, she will manage a team […]
Wavemaker UK, the media, content and technology agency, is bringing all its data-driven marketing specialists into one unit to focus on digital transformation for brands. From October 2018, Wavemaker Precision will provide a single hub of experts from five fields: technology, analytics, platforms, data strategy, and the precision planning leads who bring the disciplines together. […]
Global mobile data management software firm Mobolize has appointed MWWPR to handle its trade, corporate, thought leadership and social communications across key European territories. The campaign attempts to gain mobile operator and mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) customers across the region. Mobolize’s suite of on-device software is deployed on millions of Android and iOS smartphones […]