China has become the first nation to embrace facial recognition technology to authorise digital payments following an innovative play by Alibaba to ease queues in local KFC restaurants. The so-called ‘smile to pay’ service has been introduced in the city of Huangzhou as part of a trial with the chicken chain to boost the customer […]
MarComm News’ Hit Parade brings you our selection of the “hit” projects of the month. The highlights for August 2017 include social, design, advertising and digital projects: 1) Kind Words Ringback Tone by GS Caltex GS Caltex wanted to decrease the stress level of employees in call centers. Customer abusive comments are something that everyone knows but no […]
Heinz Yellow Mustard is marking its partnership as the new Official Mustard sponsor of the NFL in the UK with an integrated campaign created by creative social agency Media Bounty. Heinz’s partnership with NFL UK is brought to life through the Ultimate Playbook, a series of creative assets designed for social, print and outdoor channels, […]
Online retailer Very.co.uk has announced its first full channel sponsorship of Sky Living. The campaign will go live on September 1 and runs for six months across linear TV, VoD and online. Debuting on Sky Living, the campaign shows consumers how to ‘get more out of every day’ by showcasing Very’s department store range. The […]
Following the astounding success of the mobile game Sea Hero Quest, launched in 2016, Deutsche Telekom and Saatchi & Saatchi London launches the world’s first consumer focused Virtual Reality (VR) game where anyone can help scientists fight dementia through gameplay. Sea Hero Quest VR aims to harness the power of VR gameplay to aid dementia […]
jj Media Group is bringing its production service divisions together under one brand to become the UK’s largest production service company. With the move coming as CEO Josh Jones pledges to better service the UK’s growing content economy. Locations, Studios, Events and Equipment Hire have now been brought under one cohesive brand identity, jj Media […]
Blending virtual reality with real reality, KFC is using VR technology to demonstrate how to make Original Recipe fried chicken in an entirely unique, hands-on and modern way. “The Hard Way – a KFC Virtual Training Escape Room” is designed as an escape room where Colonel Sanders gives his trainees hints and clues along the way […]
In a survey of over 200 SMEs by UK call tracking provider, Mediahawk, 62% said that social media brings in the highest quality leads and sales. Offline media such as print, including magazines, flyers and newspaper ads, bring in the second highest quality leads to their business (51%), revealing that small businesses must manage their […]
International design consultancy DECIDE has created the branding and packaging design for the launch of a new sub brand frozen pizza range for Dr Oetker under the Chicago Town brand. ‘The Pizza Kitchen’ has been created to complement the existing Chicago Town Takeaway and Deep Dish ranges and increase brand reach to target the weekday, […]
One of the UK’s favourite innuendo-fuelled cookery programme, The Great British Bake Off (aka GBBO) returns to the TV screens on August 29 – nearly a year after it was confirmed the programme would be passed into the hands of Channel 4. While many are dubious about the change of networks, fans haven’t lost interest, […]