Buzzfeed has launched a News app in the UK, Australia and Canada that will use push notifications to alert users to breaking stories. The media group has doubled its efforts in recent years to stand up to national titles, as well as the likes of Vice, when it comes to driving its own news agenda […]
McCann Erickson Japan has announced that AI-CD β (AI-CD beta), the world’s first artificial intelligence (A.I.) creative director (according to McCann’s research), will be joining the agency. AI-CD β will be attending McCann Worldgroup’s new employee welcoming ceremony on April 1st, along with 11 fresh college graduates. AI-CD β was developed through the Creative Genome […]
Eurostar, the high-speed rail service, is promoting its new London-Paris train with an Instagram campaign. The work by AKQA on the @LaVieOnBoard Instagram account shows a canvas of 200 images showing what it is like to be on board the new train. The squares tell different stories using animated videos and images, including a couple […]
Ogilvy Paris have marked the long awaited arrival of all ten seasons of Friends on Netflix with the release of a nostalgic preroll campaign that responds dynamically to videos watched on YouTube. This saw the agency tag thousands of the most searched for videos on the sharing platform to remind people that no matter what […]
A week after naming Google’s Craig Morgan as the Advertising and Innovations Jury Chair for The 18th FAB Awards, the International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards are pleased to announce that Taxi Studio’s Spencer Buck will be 2016’s Packaging & Design Jury Chair. “For the past 17 years the FAB Awards has represented the very best Food & […]
Unicef France has created a unique interactive Twitter campaign titled #H20Filter to mark World Water Day (22 March). As part of its wider ‘Water Challenges’ initiative, the charity wants to raise awareness around the fact that many individuals around the world are unable to access clean water. As such, it’s created a Twitter tool which allows individuals […]
ITV Commercial, FremantleMedia UK and Syco Entertainment announced they have signed a wide-ranging sponsorship deal with UK National Lottery operator, Camelot, for the forthcoming tenth series of hit show, Britain’s Got Talent. The partnership, which was negotiated and will be managed by Vizeum and The Story Lab, sees Britain’s Got Talent and The National Lottery’s […]
Virtual Reality has been a hot topic recently, especially at South by Southwest. Why is it especially important now? It is starting to be available to the average person and this has the potential to change the world of marketing. VR dominated the recently concluded SxSW, as a top topic of discussion, an award winning feature, and a […]
Samsung Electronics Australia has announced the creation of the brainBAND Project, centered on the global initiative Launching People. Designed to push the boundaries of technology and facilitate research into concussion. The brainBAND Project is the work of Dr. Alan Pearce and Braden Wilson who were brought together for the project by Leo Burnett Sydney on […]
Clarks, the UK’s leading footwear brand, has joined forces with Disney UK to launch an integrated media campaign which celebrates the release of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ new comedy-adventure Zootropolis, in UK cinemas from March 25th. The campaign, which will run across TV, Digital, Cinema and In-store, follows the success of 2015’s Clarks and Disney […]