The Football League launches new ad campaign to boost midweek attendances

The Football League launches new ad campaign to boost midweek attendances

The Football League has launched the #BreaktheRoutine campaign in an attempt to help boost attendances at midweek fixtures. The campaign is aimed at football fans that support or enjoy watching one of the 72 clubs competing across the three divisions of The Football League. The increasing prominence of midweek fixtures has hurt attendances in English football with […]

HSBC Premier supports life’s unpredictability in latest campaign

HSBC Premier supports life’s unpredictability in latest campaign

HSBC Premier, and Saatchi & Saatchi London launch a new broadcast campaign to encourage people to plan for their future. The latest campaign comprises two films that follow the lives of ‘Audrey’ and ‘Chung’. As the films unfold, so do their respective lives but not quite in the way that they had originally planned as young […]

Elmwood’s Lyndal Kearney: Let’s hear it for women!

Elmwood’s Lyndal Kearney: Let’s hear it for women!

It’s encouraging, albeit stunningly late in the day, to see brands starting to recognise women as individuals and speak to them accordingly. For the past two years, leading UK-based trend consultancy, The Future Laboratory, has written about the rising trend of the Athena Woman. They reference this as “the female century”; where more women than […]

MEC brokers TV sponsorship first for Volvic with Channel 4

MEC brokers TV sponsorship first for Volvic with Channel 4

4 Sales and MEC announce a new seven-figure sponsorship deal with mineral water brand Volvic. The deal, which runs from Tuesday 1st March until the end of 2016, represents the first time Volvic has sponsored programming on TV and the first time it has supported its natural water and flavoured Aquadrinks sub-brands with masterbrand advertising. Volvic […]

Lidl Launches Easter TV Campaign with All the Trimmings

Lidl Launches Easter TV Campaign with All the Trimmings

Lidl, Britain’s fastest-growing supermarket, unveiled its 2016 Easter TV ad campaign on March 6 during the first break of ITV’s brand new period drama Doctor Thorne. Designed to highlight its full range of delicious, great quality and low-priced products, the campaign encourages families to choose Lidl for their entire Easter weekend shop. Lidl’s Easter campaign, created […]

Nissan creates self-parking chair to appease tidy Japanese office workers

Nissan creates self-parking chair to appease tidy Japanese office workers

Nissan has used its ‘Intelligent Parking’ technology to solve an everyday issue; tidying away chairs in the office. Alongside its agency TBWA\Hakuhodo, Nissan has built ‘Intelligent Parking Chairs’ that can sense where they are through four ceiling cameras and move back into their original position via a 360-degree motorised roller system. The technology in the […]

College Ad with Couple Kissing in the Library Boosted Applications and Just Won an Award

College Ad with Couple Kissing in the Library Boosted Applications and Just Won an Award

A college recruitment ad that made waves in 2015 for including a scene of a couple making out in a library has been named the best university commercial of the year. Kira Academic, a tech company that helps admissions departments interview applicants by video, honoured the University of Moncton’s commercial out of some 100 ads, following […]

Are Emojis Limiting Girls? New Always #LikeAGirl Film Takes a Closer Look

Are Emojis Limiting Girls? New Always #LikeAGirl Film Takes a Closer Look

[KGVID width=”600″ height=”338″]https://marcommnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2492351_LikeAGirl_2.5_YouTube_Main_Edit_PGAL6291000H_MP4.mp4[/KGVID] Playing princess, getting their nails done, dancing in bunny ears – is this a true representation of all the things that girls do? That’s the question you might ask if you take a critical look at how girls are portrayed in emojis, one of the fastest growing language in the world and […]