J. Walter Thompson London’s recent reshuffle of their leadership saw Lucas Peon replace Russell Ramsey as the Executive Creative Director. We got an opportunity to sit down with the new man in charge at Cannes, and discuss his vision for the agency going forward: Q) You recently took over as Executive Creative Director at J. Walter Thompson (JWT) London, […]
Limited Space, the shopping centre media owner, will launch the UK’s first in-mall giant rotational digital advertising screen at intu Lakeside with a campaign for the release of Despicable Me 3. The campaign will be the first of its kind, featuring a 30-second animation specially created for the unique screen. The animation will appear as […]
Serviceplan France has been awarded three times by the 64th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity – which distinguishes the world’s best creative work – for its “Virtual Crash Billboard,” a campaign conceived for Parisian Road Safety. “Virtual Crash Billboard”, an integrated campaign starting from a specially designed interactive digital billboard, was awarded three Lions […]
GSK has announced the launch of an innovative TV partnership with Channel 4 in a new £4.2m marketing campaign which premières during the return of legendary adventure gameshow The Crystal Maze following a bespoke introduction on 30th June. The partnership with channel 4 includes a new media format to help connect and engage with the […]
The life-enhancing role pets play in our lives is at the centre of a new campaign for animal care charity Blue Cross, created by LIDA and breaking on June 28. It shines a light on the myriad ways pets help humans – from making us laugh to keeping us healthy – and what Blue Cross […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
Creative agency BMB has launched a new campaign for KP Snacks’ brand KP Nuts, which will run across TV, VOD, OOH and Social. The 30” and 20” TV spots go live on 22nd June, with both TV and VOD running until early August. OOH will run from 3rd July until mid July, nationally, while campaign […]