Lidl, the UK’s seventh largest retailer, has launched its first fully-automated, AI-powered, Facebook Messenger chatbot to help UK customers select the best wine whatever the meal or moment. Users simply type in a wine question and voilà, the answer appears! Lidl’s new chatbot – named Margot – will perform the role of shoppers’ virtual wine […]
UK advertising spend in Q3 2017 rose 3.5% year-on-year to reach £5.4bn – the 17th consecutive quarter of market growth, according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data published on January 31. The latest data underpin preliminary figures which show 2017 spending grew to £22.1bn – representing the eighth consecutive year of market growth. Further key […]
Hootsuite, the most widely used social media management platform, and We Are Social, the global socially-led creative agency, have released Digital in 2018, a report of social media and digital trends around the world. Representing 239 countries and territories, the seventh annual report finds the number of internet users in the world has now surpassed […]
2017 marked a watershed year for digital brand advertising with factors including trust, transparency, safety, measurement, user experience, consolidation, Facebook/Google dominance and the use of data all up for debate. Throw in a wobbly economy, Brexit (ahem), GDPR and the welcome, but as yet un-established changes brought by the Coalition for Better Advertising, and 2018 […]
Established cereal brand Mornflake has unveiled a new identity for its range of oat-based products, with design by B&B studio. With a powerful design that stands out on the supermarket shelf, the rebrand celebrates not only the nutritional benefits of the cereals but also Mornflake’s heritage as the fourth-oldest family-owned brand in Britain. Mighty Oats […]
An original handwritten recipe for Bristol Method Dry Gin from the 1870s has been recreated, bottled and launched as Smeaton’s, with identity, packaging design and strategy by Denomination. The award-winning drinks design agency celebrated the Bristol Method Dry style, relatively new to consumers, through the packaging to tell the story behind the gin, communicate the […]
Putting its fans centre-stage, quite literally, pioneering wholefoods snack bar brand Nākd is showcasing the winning doodles from two dedicated fans who entered its ‘Add a little Delight’ social media competition. The sketches will feature in the brand’s out-of-home advertising at London tube stations and rail stations from mid January till the end of the […]
Premium out of home media owner Ocean Outdoor has announced a three year partnership with the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) which will enable the charity to magnify its campaigns and engage millions of people in eradicating single-use plastic from the oceans. As part of the partnership, Ocean is giving the Marine Conservation Society access to its premium […]
Voice-enabled technology, from smart speakers to virtual assistants, is opening an entirely new interface through which brands and consumers will engage and communicate in 2018, according to WARC, the global marketing intelligence service, following a survey with more than 600 marketing and advertising professionals around the world for its Toolkit 2018 report. Voice is swiftly […]
As from January 25th, a traveler from the future shows up in the new TV and web campaign Just Eat, imagined by Buzzman and orchestrated by the media agency ROIK. Thanks to two films directed by Jean-Baptiste Saurel, a group of roommates and a classic family meet a new guy: Max. He is a […]