Out There Media (OTM), a global leader in mobile advertising and data monetization, has announced their expansion into the Middle East and a new partnership with Zain, a leading mobile operator in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa. OTM, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, is the creator of Mobucks, a proprietary technology platform that […]
Shell and bio-bean announce that together they are helping to power some of London’s buses using a biofuel made partly from waste coffee grounds. The B20 biofuel contains a 20% bio-component which contains part coffee oil. The biofuel is being added to the London bus fuel supply chain and will help to power some […]
Since adding 360 videos to News Feeds in June 2016, Facebook has spent 2017 significantly invested in the format. It enabling 360 live-streaming and then added that functionality within its apps, and even boosted the back end with automatic image correction. But the social network isn’t stopping its immersive push at flat imagery. Facebook’s Oculus recently announced it has started testing VR experiences […]
London hotel, The Berkeley, teams up with production company, Armoury, to redefine drinking with an immersive new cocktail experience, Out Of The Blue. ‘Out Of The Blue’ is an immersive experience within a secret space in The Berkeley in Knightsbridge. Guests will enter a 360-degree projection environment where specially-designed film and molecular scents combine […]
On November 14, MarComm News attended Creativebrief’s BITE Live event in London. The main theme of the day was going from insight to action and transforming the richness of ideas into real business value. BITE Live invited some of the world’s leading brands and their agency partners to reveal how they have turned cultural and […]
MarComm’s Star Parade is a series where we shine the spotlight on some of the global stars from the Marketing and Communications industry, and Simon Gosling is someone who has been making waves in the digital marketing space for a while now. Futurist with Unruly, Simon makes predictions about future marketing trends based on the […]
J. Walter Thompson London is launching an industry first business consultancy called Female Tribes Consulting, out of its leading global Female Tribes Initiative. Female Tribes Consulting takes the insights and understanding from the global Female Tribes Women’s Index study (8,000 Women in 19 countries) and helps clients re-design their businesses through a female lens by […]
Black cabbies are to become London’s new emergency responders by learning how to handle acid attacks, terrorist incidents and medical crises. mytaxi, the e-hailing app, has developed the Knowledge+ to provide tools for its 17,500 drivers with essential health, safety and people skills for coping with new challenges in the capital. The pioneering programme, which […]
Following their announcement of pulling out of all awards program until 2018 at Cannes, Publicis Groupe have now revealed they are pleased with the changes the Cannes Lions Festival has made in order to ‘course correct’ and bring their focus back to creativity. “As a founding partner of the Cannes Lions and a strong supporter of its goal of […]
In a ground-breaking venture for technology and social care, Hobnob’s award-winning director Ben Perry executes a 360° virtual reality film to raise awareness of children’s experiences of foster care and adoption. The arresting film for The Cornerstone Partnership gives viewers a piercing insight into the realities of children from broken homes who start new lives […]