February 8th wasn’t just another day in the office for the nearly 5,500 Bacardi employees around the globe who ditched their desks and hit the streets, visiting hundreds of bars around the world to reignite the company’s entrepreneurial spirit and culture. The first annual “Back to the Bar” was timed to coincide with the company’s Founder’s Day […]
Britons are addicted to digital content, with UK millennials spending 8.5 hours – over half of the average waking day (53%) – reading, watching, liking, creating and sharing content across their devices. For Generation Z, this rises to 10.6 hours, while the UK average is 6.9 hours. The findings come from Adobe’s latest report into […]
Cardiovascular disease is Ireland’s number 1 killer, but 80% of premature deaths are preventable. So, a new hard-hitting campaign from the Irish Heart Foundation, #showsomeheart, developed by award-winning Dublin creative agency Boys and Girls asks Ireland to “Show Some Heart” and offer support for those affected or impacted by cardiovascular disease. Empowering, confident and contemporary, […]
 BMW Motorrad unveils an epic branded short content film, ‘The Someday Ride’, to launch its new 3ASY RIDE motorcycle in the US market. Creatively devised by M&C Saatchi and directed by Ben Perry, the rousing film aims to broaden what it means to be a motorcycle owner as the BMW Motorrad seeks to engage […]
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Wavemaker, GroupM’s media, content and technology agency, has been appointed to lead media efforts in the US for Adobe, the award-winning software and technology leader. The appointment brings together all on and off-line media communications planning and buying across Adobe’s three core product Clouds: Creative, Experience and Document. Steve Weeks, Head of US Media Strategy […]
Something is rotten in the state of advertising, an industry which I have loved since my first day working for the Saatchi brothers 30 years ago. The sad fact is that too many of the recommendations made by agencies are no longer made for the benefit of the client. That is not good for the […]
A new campaign backed by a coalition of global organisations and celebrities, is calling upon leaders to prioritise the fight against malaria, or risk undoing decades of unprecedented progress. The Beckham-backed campaign, Malaria Must Die, So Millions Can Live, launches with a film made by Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), showing David inside a glass box […]
Marketers should wake up to cannabis culture, according to a new report from J. Walter Thompson’s Innovation Group which examines the ‘wellness-forward’ lifestyle, recreational and medicinal opportunities presented by the rise of the so-called ‘Cannabis Economy’. Sales of recreational marijuana have been legal in California, the largest US state economy in North America, since January […]
The perfectly rotund London IMAX landmark has been transformed into a colossal Big Mac to celebrate the 50th anniversary of McDonald’s iconic burger. A Big Mac of the same proportions as the iconic IMAX would measure a gigantic 1,734 square metres. The spectacular IMAX display is powered by 48,000 LEDs of every possible colour to […]