Electronic Arts Inc. announced the official launch of EA Sports UFC 2, available in retail stores and as a digital download on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The game features the largest roster ever for an official UFC game, boasting more than 250 athletes, including cover stars, UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor and former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda […]
Creative agency Space is bringing circus thrills to 2016’s Cheltenham festival with a campaign designed to get punters to choose Coral as their bookmaker of choice at the racecourse. ‘The ‘Greatest Show on Turf’ will target festival goers with fun circus style activation that aims to get them to download the Coral app, win free […]
Maxus UK has announced a new parental policy to support new parents within the agency. The policy features 26 weeks paid leave for either mums or dads; the option to take up shared parental leave with a partner; up to six paid emergency care days and a parent buddy. The programme recognises that all parents, […]
Market leading Dairy free spread Vitalite has partnered with brand design consultancy, BrandOpus, to create a fresh new brand identity and pack design to help engage with new audiences. Vitalite first launched in the UK in 1983 at a time when sunflower spreads were dominating the market. It was perhaps most recognisable for its earworm […]
Award-winning customer acquisition agency, The Specialist Works, has appointed Lucy Davis to Head of Brand Partnerships. The newly created role will see Davis have direct responsibility for several services, including Goodwill Works (facilitating client partnerships to deliver low cost acquisitions), Personar, the UK’s only personality-type database and email and postal data. Davis will be heading […]
Bank of Scotland is launching the latest iteration in its “Decisions Well Made” campaign starring Scottish actor, Highlander and Braveheart star, James Cosmo. The new series of 10-second online and TV ads feature Cosmo, who is also famed for his appearance in Game of Thrones, reprising the role of a spirit guide, and offering sage […]
DewGibbons + Partners, the London-based independent brand design consultancy, has hired former Saatchi & Saatchi Creative Director Paul Domenet to the new role of Creative Director Communications. In a distinct departure from the creative industry’s business as usual, Domenet will be developing communications as an integral part of the agency’s strategic brand design offering. He […]
[KGVID width=”600″ height=”338″]https://marcommnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/BBC_Microbit_30s_WIP.mp4[/KGVID] Schoolchildren give their unique take on where technology will go in the next thirty years in the new BBC Masterbrand campaign for BBC micro:bit. BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized, codeable computer that allows young people to get creative with technology, and it is being supplied to around one million Year Seven or […]
Mobile ad spend is set to surge 35 per cent compared to 12 months earlier and surpass desktop media investment to hit £4.58bn in 2016, and account for 27 per cent of total UK media budgets, according to eMarketer. The research firm on March 10 released the numbers which show that the wider ‘digital’ category […]
Thomas Cook Airlines’ new Fantasy Flight concept, in conjunction with digital creative agency, Catch, brings to life 360-degree exploration that lets you try before you fly. Best experienced using Google Cardboard via the YouTube app, viewers change their perspective of Thomas Cook Airlines’ refurbished premium and economy class cabins in real-time by moving their headset/device […]