UK Advertising Delivers Strongest H1 on Record

UK Advertising Delivers Strongest H1 on Record

UK advertising expenditure grew 3.7% to £10.8bn during the first six months of 2017, the largest H1 total of any year since monitoring began in 1982. The record investment highlighted in Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data, published today, has led to an upgraded forecast for 2017 of 3.1% growth, which indicates annual spend in excess […]

Air Canada unveils #CoolNotCold Campaign

Air Canada unveils #CoolNotCold Campaign

Air Canada is launching its #CoolNotCold campaign to inspire travel from London to ‘cool not cold’ destinations in the Americas this winter. The integrated marketing campaign spans out-of-home, high impact display, press inserts and most excitingly, a pop-up Poutinerie in London’s Shoreditch from 3rd – 11th November. Giving guests a taste of 10 destinations they can fly […]

KITKAT Gives Consumers (and Zombies) A Break From The Usual Halloween Clichés In Campaign With Tasty Twist On Classic Horror Tropes

KITKAT Gives Consumers (and Zombies) A Break From The Usual Halloween Clichés In Campaign With Tasty Twist On Classic Horror Tropes

J. Walter Thompson Global and J. Walter Thompson London’s content business PACE has created a Halloween campaign that would have George A. Romero turning in his grave. Instead of brain hungry zombies chasing down unwitting or gullible humans, the global campaign lets the audience take a break from the usual clichés that surrounds the global festival […]

Industry Legends and Veterans Star in The FAB Awards’ 20 Years Young Campaign

Industry Legends and Veterans Star in The FAB Awards’ 20 Years Young Campaign

The FAB Awards have announced that they are now open for entries for their 20th year, with a new campaign by Creative Directors, Naz Nazli and Alex Ball. The campaign, which can be seen in detail below, is pinned around The Awards’ 20th Anniversary with the tag line: “20 Years Young”. Photographed by Andy Gallacher, it […]

UK consumers biggest spenders on Christmas presents in Europe

UK consumers biggest spenders on Christmas presents in Europe

UK consumers are the biggest spenders on Christmas presents throughout Europe with an average spend of £291.60. This is £50 greater than their nearest European rivals, and even with Brexit looming, 84 percent of those surveyed said it won’t affect spending this Christmas. The new research commissioned by media technology company Oath surveyed 2,000 European […]

HeyHuman Launches Social Media Drive For New Murder Mystery Game

HeyHuman Launches Social Media Drive For New Murder Mystery Game

[KGVID width=”700″ height=”394″]https://marcommnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Junes-Journey-Original-Track1.mp4[/KGVID] Integrated marketing agency, HeyHuman, has kicked off a social media initiative to support Wooga, a Berlin-based mobile game developer, in the launch of its 1920s murder mystery game, June’s Journey. The ‘Have You Heard About June?’ campaign aims to build excitement around the launch, deliver increased downloads and grow the game’s social […]

Adults 2020: J. Walter Thompson’s “The New Adulthood” Report Zeroes In On The Influential New Consumer Tribe

Adults 2020: J. Walter Thompson’s “The New Adulthood” Report Zeroes In On The Influential New Consumer Tribe

What will adulthood mean in 2020? A new report from J. Walter Thompson’s Innovation Group reveals a new and unique cohort shaping the face of adulthood: The New Adults. The report, ‘The New Adulthood’, looks at the make-up, attitudes and behaviours of this influential new consumer tribe – a group of 30 to 45-year-olds with […]

London’s Iconic Piccadilly Lights Are Switched Back On

London’s Iconic Piccadilly Lights Are Switched Back On

The world-famous Piccadilly Lights were switched back on this week (October 26) after a nine month period of renovation. A spectacular display of colours, which were sponsored by members of the public as part of a fundraising campaign for Barnardo’s, was the first image to appear on the new screen. Landsec, the owner of Piccadilly […]