Adaptly, an Ads API Marketing Developer Partner for the world’s catalog of ideas Pinterest, has extended its offering to the UK. Since early April 2016, Adaptly has offered the Pinterest Promoted Pins advertising solution to brands and agencies operating in the UK. This follows the announcement of a similar arrangement in the US last year. […]
Saatchi & Saatchi Madrid, in partnership with pet food brand Pedigree, have created “The Posting Tail”, a device that allows dogs to share what they like on social media, without a human being involved. How does it work? When the dog sees something it likes, it wags its tail in a particular way. An accelerometer […]
Zizzi, the Italian restaurant chain, is leading innovation in marketing by delivering an interactive consumer experience incorporating gameplay and rewards to both engage existing customers and also attract new restaurant goers. Having recently signed a long term contract with 3radical – whose Voco software platform delivers relevant, rich, multi-channel experiences to consumers for brands such […]
Pinterest has rolled out its Promoted Pins service in the UK, the first country outside of the US where advertising has been introduced into its model. The photo-sharing platform, which debuted Promoted Pins in the US in 2015, has launched in the UK with brands including John Lewis, B&Q, Nestlé and Tesco. Users of Pinterest […]
Ikea announced the release of a pilot virtual reality app, the Ikea VR Experience, on Valve’s world leading game platform Steam. The test app, featuring a virtual kitchen experience, is the first foray from Ikea into VR technology. The launch of the app is intended to solicit consumer feedback as Ikea continues to explore the possible implications of the technology […]
People do stupid things when they’re hungry. With the average person spending 4.7 hours a day on their smartphone, most/a lot of those stupid things now happen on those devices. To take advantage of this Snickers and Colenso BBDO built three of the dumbest apps the world has ever seen. Apps that no one in […]
Out of home (OOH) work’s inclusion in marketing campaigns has been found to considerably bolster the public’s purchase intent, according to a five year study from Posterscope and Dentsu Aegis Network. Analysing over 50 individual client campaigns, testing more than 1,500 creative executions and surveying over 20,000 respondents, the Integrated Communications Evaluation (ICE) study found […]
The Next Rembrandt has been unveiled in Amsterdam: a 3D printed painting, made solely from data of Rembrandt’s body of work. Thus bringing the Master of Light and Shadow back to life to create one more painting. Only this time, data is the painter, and technology the brush. A portrait of a man in black 17th-century […]
Burberry has launched a racy campaign to introduce its Mr Burberry fragrance with an ad directed by Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen. The 30-second spot, released today, tells the story of a couple’s weekend in London and includes a nude bath scene. It is the first commercial film by McQueen, who directed the multi-Oscar winning 12 […]
Brand design agency Parker Williams has designed the branding and packaging for Newton’s appl fizzics, a new, natural sparkling apple juice drink. The first product, ‘just apple’, a blend of apple juice and lightly sparkling water, features several subtle references to celebrated physicist Sir Isaac Newton. A lower sugar alternative to juices and regular soft drinks, […]