Savoury snack brand Jacob’s has announced the appointment of Grey London as their new creative agency, following a pitch process earlier in 2015. The agency has already started working with the brand ahead of launching a new Jacob’s Masterbrand campaign in 2016. The appointment means that Grey London will work across both the sweet and […]
Ad agency models are breaking. Pre-roll ads are useless. Measurement models are outdated. The ad industry lacks diversity. And the phrase digital marketing should be dumped. Those statements were among the declarations made on October 14, by PepsiCo exec Brad Jakeman in a fiery, truth-telling presentation at the Association of National Advertising’s annual “Masters of […]
Believe in fate? ‘Forget that,’ is what StarHub and DDB are telling you in their newly released commercial for the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals. In 2015, StarHub is once again the Official Telecommunications and Broadcast Partner of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals Singapore, and they want you to rethink what we are telling […]
Microsoft Garage has created a quirky new photo-messaging app for iOS that promises to make sharing more intuitive by featuring a vertically split screen, enabling the sender to take a photo and type a message over the top half, with the recipient replying on the lower half. Twist is designed to make the user experience […]
Swiss watchmaker Swatch recently unveiled the Bellamy, a watch that enables the wearer to make contactless payments. The Bellamy isn’t a smartwatch – it’s got a regular analogue face and no other extra functionality – but it does feature an NFC chip under the dial. This means payments don’t require any power from the watch, […]
LinkedIn recently gave a first look at a new version of its flagship mobile app. Internally known as Project Voyager, the app for mobile web, iOS, and Android is still in beta and won’t be available for another few weeks. LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner gave a presentation on the new app during the LinkedIn […]
Call me crazy, but I think over the past few weeks Apple became a major player in the advertising world and very few people noticed it. First came the new Apple TV. With it, two very special updates: universal search and AppleOS. One makes it a potential driver of traffic to all major video content […]
To celebrate the arrival of autumn 72andSunny Amsterdam and Google are launching the second edition of ‘Les Heures Magiques’ (‘The Magic Hours’) on October 15th: a social campaign and interactive mobile experience that invites Parisians to 31 nights full of inspiring activities to experience after sunset in Paris. Collaborating with both the City of Paris, […]
Burger King rolled out a PR stunt in France that involved dishing out 100,000 tomatoes to customers in restaurants and then taking them as currency in exchange for a burger. In the activity by creative agency Buzzman, aimed at communicating the fact that it uses fresh tomatoes, it handed out thousands of the red fruits […]
Ads taking too long to load are costing the UK advertising industry the equivalent of £1bn a year, according to the latest figures released by European ad verification company Meetrics. The report by Meetrics found that around fifth of ads fail to load properly before a user has moved on, meaning they are never seen […]