The most luxurious store in the world, since 1707, Fortnum & Mason approached The Yard Creative to help them learn more about their customer base and to discover how recent initiatives had changed customer perception of the brand. The customer research activities that The Yard Creative undertook on behalf of Fortnum & Mason needed to […]
“Mobile advertising as a whole is just fairly crappy,” said Sebastian Tomich, The New York Times senior VP of advertising and innovation. Mr. Tomich isn’t saying anything controversial. Most people seem to agree that those thin horizontal banners pinned to the bottom of publishers’ mobile sites haven’t won many fans. Neither have the full-screen interstitial […]
Ziploc has just unveiled a second installment in the brand’s digital film series—Little Beasts. The series, which launched earlier this year, takes a comedic look at some of the most chaotic scenarios provided by raising children. The videos make the point that while Ziploc can’t stop the crazy, they can help contain the chaos. The […]
Genesis Media, which surveyed more than 11,500 US adults in late May and early June, found that while 24 percent of respondents installed ad blockers on either their home or work computers, just 3 percent did so on their smartphones or tablets. Two things immediately jump out from those statistics: First, marketers already had plenty […]
Diageo, the drinks giant that owns the Smirnoff and Bailey’s brands, is on the hunt for a digital agency to work across Europe. The winning shop will work on an e-commerce strategy for Diageo. The company is looking to develop a better user experience on its sites. The pitches have taken place, and there is […]
Live & Breathe has appointed Justin Hill as creative director for its Leeds office with immediate effect as it continues to invest in high profile talent from across the industry. The move follows the promotion of James Hoxley to the role of executive creative director earlier this year as part of a restructure of the […]
Thinkmodo, the viral video agency, are stoking hype ahead of the release of Fantastic Four with the creation of a pyrotechnic human torch drone which has been lighting up the skies above New York City. With the film set to open at theatres this week Thinmodo set about building a human shaped drone to resemble […]
Mindshare APAC, the global media agency network part of WPP, has launched FAST, or Future Adaptive Specialist Team, a unique solution suite which aims to provide data led adaptive marketing services to brands looking to make sense of the deluge of data that is engulfing marketing communications. One of the key headwinds that brands are […]
Bigger. Badder. Birdier. This summer, one of the biggest mobile gaming hits to date is set to return to mobile and tablet screens around the world, putting the smug pigs and their feisty feathered enemies back in players’ hands when Angry Birds 2 launches on 30th July. To help promote the game’s release and recruit […]
Hotel giant Marriott has teamed up with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to give fans the opportunity to travel the world for tournaments across five continents. The tie-up will see Marriott made the official hotelier for events including NBA Global Games 2015-16, NBA Africa Game 2015, and NBA Canada Series 2015 as well as separate […]