Jamie Oliver challenges EE ambassador Kevin Bacon to a bacon sandwich cooking competition, in the phone company’s latest ad, in partnership with YouTube. Oliver and Bacon compete to create the best bacon sandwich in the latest campaign, which is being launched exclusively on Oliver’s FoodTube YouTube channel. The film has been created by EE’s digital […]
Rufus Leonard has overhauled the Lloyds Banking Group brand, bringing together all of its businesses under one identity system and introducing a ‘confident and powerful’ customer-focused positioning. The new brand, which begins to roll out this week, follows Lloyds Bank’s split from TSB – which has re-launched as a stand-alone high street brand – and […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nql49wrkURY Nike has signed popstar Jessie J to front the European phase of its ‘Just Do It’ 25th anniversary campaign in a bid to motivate women to embrace their potential. The motivational campaign is led by the brand’s “Endless Possibilities” advert featuring several women overcoming ‘testing’ circumstances including running from wolves, swimming to the bottom […]
Newsworks, the marketing body for national newsbrands, has today launched a 12-week multi-platform advertising campaign around the strapline “Papers aren’t just paper anymore”. Created by QI mastermind and best-selling author John Lloyd, who worked with Coldplay designers Tappin Gofton to produce the six ads, ‘Papers aren’t just paper anymore’ is Newsworks and John Lloyd’s first-ever […]
Nokia UK has tweeted in response to the news that cats paws are able to unlock the iPhone 5s through its fingerprint sensor Touch ID. We aren’t cat-proof either… http://t.co/Awwvrzy54z pic.twitter.com/Y9X1ej1qmH— Nokia UK (@nokia_uk) September 23, 2013 The tweet follows an experiment by TechCrunch, which saw a cat’s paw successfully unlock the device, created to […]
Yahoo Japan has utilised the buzz around 3D printing in its latest campaign, created by Hakuhodo, which features a giant voice-activated search engine machine that can create real objects… The machine has been installed in a school for the visually impaired – the film above shows children there making use of it. Each child says […]
Apple has topped the CoolBrands list again while digital and affordable luxury brands slip down in the rankings of the annual survey by The Centre for Brand Analysis. Häagen-Dazs, Ben and Jerry’s and Vogue – all affordable luxuries – are gone from the top twenty,’ says Stephen Cheliotis chairman of the CoolBrands Council, who adds […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPkitdlOYEs As Ford is sponsoring the 2014 UEFA Champions League Final in Portugal, the ad agency Wunderman has helped them “look” for the next generation of soccer champions by placing a trophy on the streets. A challenge was issued to the public to see if they could lift the trophy just like a UEFA champion—although […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV4TjIYVyuY To get people interested in sports in Turkey, Nike got Didier Drogba, Birsel Vardalı, Burak Yılmaz, and other famous Turkish athletes to make a “human printing press”. In this viral video, each athlete uses his or her abilities to power a printing press—cyclists power a machine which loads paper into a printer, while a […]
Pinterest has announced plans to bring advertising to its platform for the first time in the form of Promoted Pins, a move that follows several recent attempts to make itself more attractive to advertisers. The three-year old business, which has previously voiced its reluctance to running ads, has promised the service will be “tasteful”, “relevant’ […]