Werkabee: The recruitment tech millennials will actually want to use

Graduate unemployment still remains a serious issue for the global economy. Opportunities for students, graduates and career-changers worldwide to gain professional work experience have never been more important- internships, volunteering, mentoring and research collaborations, while interest in entrepreneurship continues to surge worldwide. But how is the recruitment technology industry responding of late? Tinder-for-Jobs apps. Yes, a slew […]

K9 Friends – Talent For Hire: How an animal shelter became a talent agency

[KGVID width=”600″ height=”338″]https://marcommnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/TALENT-FOR-HIRE-1080p_0.mp4[/KGVID] Research from the Oxford Humane Society tells us that less than 2 in 10 dogs are adopted from an animal shelter. All over the world, people tend to use breeders or pet stores instead of adopting from animal shelters. This behaviour is compounded by the preconception that shelter dogs are ‘damaged goods’. […]

James Kirkham: Snapchat is now the dominant platform for reportage whether that be funny or chaotic it is always relevant

Once again, the disruption of sports media is paving the way to the changing face of cultural communications. On Tuesday night, West Ham United fans got over excited and ended up throwing bottles at the Manchester United team bus as it arrived at Upton Park. Idiotic and predictable, but not a huge news story. However, […]

Cheil Worldwide’s Life Saving TV for KT rolls out across South Korea

Cheil Worldwide’s Life Saving TV for KT rolls out across South Korea

[KGVID width=”600″ height=”338″]https://marcommnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/LifeSavingTV.mp4[/KGVID] KT’s Life Saving TV, the life-saving service for the elderly, is now being rolled out across South Korean homes. The KT Life Saving TV, created by Cheil Worldwide for South Korean telecoms operator KT and first piloted in South Korea in 2015, takes care of the elderly without causing any disruption to […]

Circus Family creates interactive light installation for New York Design Week

Circus Family creates interactive light installation for New York Design Week

Wanted Design and NYCxDESIGN invited Circus Family to create a custom-built interactive light installation for the official opening of NYCxDESIGN. In the artistic community of Industry City, the Circus Family team built an interactive LED installation, called Day & Night, exclusively designed to fit the exhibition space. During the day the pulsing light glow invited […]

PHD and Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly to explore the 12 “inevitable” tech trends at 2016’s Cannes Lions

PHD and Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly to explore the 12 “inevitable” tech trends at 2016’s Cannes Lions

PHD Worldwide, part of Omnicom Media Group, joins this year’s lineup of speakers at the Cannes Lions festival of International Creativity and continues its focus on emerging technology through a collaboration with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly. Kelly, a leading technology thinker and writer, will join PHD’s worldwide strategy director, Mark Holden, to explore the 12 […]

Magnum taps Shazam’s technology for its new “Release the Beast” global campaign

Magnum taps Shazam’s technology for its new “Release the Beast” global campaign

Shazam, one of the world’s most popular apps for connecting artists and fans, has partnered with Unilever’s premium ice-cream brand Magnum for the launch of its most indulgent range of ice creams, Magnum Double. The whole campaign will be Shazam-enabled, either through visual recognition on print and OOH ads, or audio-recognition-enabled TV and cinema commercials. […]

Voltaren and Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland take on Brazilian public with ‘Mystery Volleyball’

Night is falling on Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro and unsuspecting passers-by are invited to play a Mystery game of Volleyball. In a glow-in-the-dark environment, they have to face two mysterious female volleyball players. It’s impossible to tell what they look like, but from their moves, the audience can assume that they are physically very […]