MarComm News’ Hit Parade brings you our selection of the “hit” projects of the month. The highlights for July 2017 include technology, design, advertising and viral projects: 1) “The Homo-schlepiens” by SodaStream Although it has not been the most viral ad of July, SodaStream‘s “The Homo-schlepiens” didn’t fair too shabbily, racking up over five million views at the […]
McCann London is inviting workers to dump their boring homemade sandwiches in favour of something more exciting from Subway’s extensive lunchtime range, including the new Rotisserie-style Chicken Sub. In the ad shot by Max Sherman at Blink, a young office worker sits outside a Subway store staring in. As he enviously watches people inside eating […]
As part of its partnership with Sony Pictures Animation’s upcoming film The Emoji Movie, Kerry Foods is set to hit screens with a new 10 second creative across its Yollies brand on kids TV channels, cinema, digital and video on demand. Driving interest in the category and for the Yollies brand, the TV campaign will […]
Tesco Ireland and creative agency, ROTHCO, launch the first commercial in part of a new three-year campaign that will form an ambitious new repositioning for Tesco Ireland. Following on from the successful Christmas campaign Here’s to the Hosts, Family Makes Us Better will put authentic family life at the heart of the Tesco business. The […]
In this day and age, we tend to take for granted TV innovations such as multi screens, cloud DVR, family accounts … But not so long ago, many improvements that would seem trivial nowadays brought us pure delight. The new campaign for CANAL by ad agency BETC Paris aims to communicate its cutting-edge offering by […]
New Balance Football launched an integrated campaign titled ‘Dictate the Play, Devastate the Defence’ to mark the arrival of the new Furon 3.0 football boot and a new colour-up for the Visaro boot silo. Created in conjunction with ZAK, New Balance Football’s global creative agency, the campaign will roll out globally, featuring in retail and […]
A new study into the representation of women in ads reveals the UK population is blighted by unrealistic stereotypes in the media. Three-quarters (77%) of women claimed they find the way women are generally portrayed in advertising to be stereotypical. Around two-thirds (65%) of men agreed. When asked which stereotypical representations they found to be most […]
It’s onwards and upwards for moustachioed singing icon, Gio Compario, as he returns for GoCompare’s most ambitious advert to date. The new TVC, ‘Onwards and Upwards’, sees one of the most recognisable characters on British television embark on an epic journey across the nation to share GoCompare’s ‘independent, free, and fair’ offering. Crowds wave as […]
UK advertising expenditure grew 1.3% year-on-year in Q1 2017 to reach £5,318m – the 15th consecutive quarter of growth but the slowest rate in almost four years, according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data published on July 27. Overall market growth occurred despite a drop of -6.2% in total television advertising, its steepest fall since 2009. […]
Channel 4 announced that Volvo UK and Valenstein & Fatt (Grey London) have won the £1million airtime prize for the Diversity in Advertising Award, with an ad campaign focussed on non-visible disability. The brand was one of seven finalists – BT and AMV BBDO; Ford and GTB; Panasonic and Brave; Bose and Valenstein & Fatt; […]