Foresight backs advertising technology business Nano Interactive

Foresight backs advertising technology business Nano Interactive

Foresight has announced a £3.5m growth capital investment into Nano Interactive Group Limited (“Nano”), a leading advertising technology business, on behalf of Foresight VCT plc. Nano was founded in 2014 by Christian Geyer and Carl White, two former executives of ad tech business ValueClick (now Conversant) after identifying an opportunity to develop an advertising technology […]

Boys and Girls and Cookie Studio Create a Festive Fitness Wonderland for Fitbit’s Christmas Ad

Boys and Girls and Cookie Studio Create a Festive Fitness Wonderland for Fitbit’s Christmas Ad

Fitbit recently launched ‘Fitbit 3D World’, a 20” spot to promote the wearable technology this Christmas. Created by Dublin-based agency Boys and Girls and animation production studio, Cookie Studio, the promo transports viewers to a fitness-filled three-dimensional world of winter sports and activities. In the film, viewers make pitstop visits at an array of festive activities. […]

Itau Bank’s end-of-year campaign conveys message about the future

Itau Bank’s end-of-year campaign conveys message about the future

Itau Bank launched their end-of-year film – “I Am The Future” – narrated by the actress Fernanda Montenegro, as part of the bank’s end-of-year trilogy campaign by ad agency Africa. Inspired in humanity’s relationship with the future, the film discusses how people’s actions in the present can influence everyone’s future. Themes such as love, fear, uncertainty, […]

The Open University launches first addressable TV campaign

The Open University launches first addressable TV campaign

The Open University (OU) will launch a bold new nationwide addressable TV (ADTV) and multi-channel campaign, called ‘Your Time is Now’, to showcase its flexible and life-changing education offering and encourage student sign-ups in 2018. The new audio-visual campaign, created in partnership with LIDA, MediaCom and Finecast, will run across ADTV, digital, radio and inserts […]

PENNY brings 9,000 people together for Christmas with two tales of festive forgiveness

PENNY brings 9,000 people together for Christmas with two tales of festive forgiveness

On 9 November, the German discount supermarket PENNY kicked off its Christmas campaign with the slogan “Christmas. Time to reconcile”. In keeping with the strong sense of neighbourly values central to its ethos, the local supplier announced that it wanted to use this method of communication to help bring people together for Christmas 2017. As well […]

Audi captures children’s insights in tech-focused social campaign

Audi captures children’s insights in tech-focused social campaign

 Audi UK has launched a social media campaign, which captures the imagination and excitement of children towards the future of automotive technology. Working with socially-led creative agency We Are Social, the campaign sees six children interacting with an Audi Q7, an SUV laden with the latest technologies, discussing what they believe the cars of […]