Haptics technology has existed for years in various forms, but is quickly gaining ground in the consumer electronics industry. A 2016 market report by Technavio estimates that the haptics technology market in consumer electronics will grow at a CAGR of 21.1% from 2014 through 2019. We caught up with Josh Stivers, Director of Product Management […]
After winning the Grand Prix in last year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, India’s first transgender band, the Brooke Bond Red Label 6-Pack Band set the stage ablaze, with their live concert during this year’s festival. Performing for an international audience encompassing some of the biggest names in entertainment, media and advertising in the […]
Mindshare, the global media agency of WPP, recently announced that it is placing its FAST (Future Adaptive Specialist Team) integrated performance unit at the heart of its business as part of an ongoing transformation programme evolving the agency into an Adaptive Marketing organisation, to help clients do the same. We had a chance to sit […]
Serviceplan Group is the largest and most diversified owner-managed and partner-managed agency group in Europe. We spoke to their Managing Creative Director, Till Hohmann, who gave us an insight into the agency’s future plans, his thoughts on the future of the Industry and his experience in judging the Direct Marketing category at Cannes in 2017: Q) What was […]
The All England Club, Wimbledon, is launching a series of content films created by McCann London to bring to life its ‘In Pursuit of Greatness’ campaign, focusing on what make the tournament so unique. The global brand campaign communicates the special characteristics of The Championships to audiences around the world. The two new content films, […]
On the final evening of the 64th Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, Ogilvy has added Titanium and Grand Prix for Good honours for The Refugee Nation to its range of awards. This brings the total to 140 awards across 23 countries, including; 4 Grand Prix, 33 Gold, 33 Silver and 69 Bronze. Tham Khai Meng, […]
Twelve, the integrated brand activation agency, has developed a multichannel campaign for Nescafé Azera, with a range of iconic and desirable limited-edition designed tins at its heart, created in collaboration with top emerging design talent from the University for the Creative Arts (UCA). The activity marks the third consecutive year that Nescafé Azera and Twelve have worked […]
A natural sports supplement brand, ‘Be’ which simplifies the complex world of sports nutrition has launched in the UK, Europe and the US with brand identity and packaging design by PB Creative. An Ownable and Credible Space Lifeplus, a leading supplier of high-quality nutritional products, approached the agency to create a new sports nutrition brand […]
In-feed native advertising platform Adyoulike announced the launch of its Native Creative 2.0 formats, bringing advertisers and publishers new options for visually-dynamic, interactive ad units that better engage and activate audiences. The new units, which seamlessly integrate in-feed on publisher properties, are available for native mobile and native video advertising as well as for web-based native. […]
Experiential agency, Closer, has appointed Helen Braybrook as staffing director to oversee the recruitment, training and management of the agency’s promotional staff for its live brand activations. Braybrook will work to Closer’s proposition of delivering Human Brand Experiences; she will report directly into Liz Richardson, Closer’s managing partner. Closer’s ambitions for its staffing division will […]