US online ad revenues brought in $15bn during the third quarter of 2015, making it the highest quarterly spend on record, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau. The number marks a 23 per cent increase from 2014’s third quarter revenues of $12.2bn. It’s also a 5 per cent jump from 2015’s second quarter revenues of […]
Three has launched its festive campaign – Merry Birthday, to celebrate everyone in the UK with Christmas time birthdays – as the network continues its mission to make things right for the British public. Let’s face it, having a Christmas birthday can suck – from the joint presents, to the nights out that never happened […]
Lloyds Bank is getting into the Christmas spirit with the unveiling of a 12m tall interactive Christmas tree which will light up the London skyline over the festive period. Developed in partnership with Kinetic, the global leaders in OOH media, Greenhouse GroupM and AOL the scheme aims to promote the banks Love You To The […]
Film agency Just So, in association with the Sheffield Doc/Fest, is launching a new online platform ‘Postcards’ and the Just So Film Fund to support the next generation of filmmakers and champion creativity and experimentation within short form documentary. During 2016 the Fund will award 12 grants of up to £5,000 to filmmakers with untold […]
Native advertising platform Adyoulike has expanded its reach into Australia, partnering with Australia’s largest independent premium digital sales house, ad2one. The new partnership gives ad2one access to Adyoulike’s in-feed native ad platform to enhance its own native advertising offering, to be known as “ad2one Native”, and will be powered by Adyoulike across Australia and New […]
Creative agency BMB is celebrating Christmas by sending comedian Bobby Mair and his mate Dylan on an internship with Santa’s Grotto. Bobby will be broadcasting live from Lapland every day via Periscope from Monday December 7th. Will he finally discover the spirit of Christmas, or just bring Santa’s finely tuned operation to a grinding halt? […]
Marmite, the iconic British brand from Unilever, is launching two Christmas limited edition jars, which consumers can personalise – available to buy at a pop-up store in Westfield Shepherds Bush from 23rd November to 24th December and via the Facebook app, hosted on the Marmite Facebook page, from 23rd November. Consumers will be given the […]
This #GivingTuesday agency BBD Perfect Storm has created the #XmashTag, an extension of its traditional Christmas card that will help spread some festive cheer and do some good for charity at the same time. A cheeky nod at the overuse of hashtags, the agency is hoping to flood Twitter with gratuitous random festive hashtags in […]
U.K. advertising spending in 2015 is anticipated to grow by seven percent, and in 2016 GroupM predicts strong demand for digital advertising will usher another year of strong advertising growth (also seven percent), pushing total U.K. advertising investment above £17bn. The new GroupM forecast released raises the prior 2015 estimate by one point (six to […]
Razorfish, part of the Publicis.Sapient platform, has announced the launch of a multichannel communications campaign, influencer engagement and online film ‘me and my bear’ for popular photograph sharing mobile application, Lifecake. Lifecake – which was acquired by Canon in 2015 – is a mobile app that allows its users to store all of their child’s […]