Once again, the disruption of sports media is paving the way to the changing face of cultural communications. On Tuesday night, West Ham United fans got over excited and ended up throwing bottles at the Manchester United team bus as it arrived at Upton Park. Idiotic and predictable, but not a huge news story. However, […]
Fast food giants Burger King have launched a new bot which enables the customer to place their order through Facebook messenger. In a series of instant responses, the bot determines firstly what the customer would like to order, and secondly where they would like to collect it from. The bot then gives the customer an estimated waiting […]
Mars, Incorporated have once again been named The Google FAB Brand / Marketer of The Year at the International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards (The FAB Awards), bagging a phenomenal 18 nominations across the various categories. Bruce McColl, Global Chief Marketing Officer at Mars, Incorporated said: “We are deeply honoured to receive this prestigious award […]
With Leicester City snagging the Premier League trophy, there will undoubtedly be a short-term increase in revenue for the club. Estimates by sports data and marketing firm Repucom show that Leicester City are set for a potential £150m boost for winning the Premier League title, consisting of Premier League prize money, Champions League participation cash […]
[KGVID width=”600″ height=”338″]https://marcommnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/DT_PROJECT_STORY_4_MINUTE_FINAL_ENGLISH_320_MP4_070416.mp4[/KGVID] Deutsche Telekom unveils ‘Sea Hero Quest’. Developed in partnership with a team of scientific researchers from University College London, The University of East Anglia and gaming experts Glitchers, ‘Sea Hero Quest’ is a new multi-platform mobile game designed specifically to help advance the understanding of spatial navigation, and therefore understand one of the […]
When Indian clothing company Spykar uploaded a mysterious trailer to YouTube entitled ‘Blue Film Festival’, featuring semi-naked models, a bed covered in underwear and salacious scenes rendered indecipherable by pixels, it immediately made waves online, with #BlueFilmFestival swiftly becoming the number one Twitter trend in India. When put in its cultural context this is hardly surprising – […]
New research from advertising agency Telegraph Hill highlights that celebrity chefs and restaurateurs don’t have it all their own way in the list of most influential UK foodies. Those appearing in the full top 50 list are ranked by the level of influence they have on changing the nation’s tastes and eating habits or starting […]
Research unveiled by NABS (National Advertising Benevolent Society) has revealed the continuing challenges faced by working parents in the advertising and media industry: 60% of parents know someone who has left their role because of pressures that come with being a working parent – up from 57% two years ago – while a third (32%) […]
New research has shown the immediate impact of the OpenRTB 2.3 programmatic standard on the native advertising market. During 2015 around one in six native campaigns (15%) were already being run programmatically. The study carried out by native advertising platform Adyoulike, analysing 1.3 billion in-feed native ads run in the UK throughout 2015, is the […]
Long gone are the days when film was purely seen as the reserve of large corporations with big budgets for television ads, as the gargantuan beast that is The Internet offers multiple platforms for businesses of any size to reach out and connect with targeted audiences via video. The medium of moving pictures is quickly […]