Reused ads, or those using recurring elements, are scoring extremely well Repeating existing ads and reusing existing characters at Christmas is a highly effective strategy, according to new evidence from System1, who test every Christmas ad every year on their Test Your Ad platform. That tallies with existing studies into “Wear-Out” from System1, which show […]
Print ads provide real-life product demos to help parents test the temperature of baby milk while on-the-go
Wunderman Thompson France And NUK Create Temperature-Controlled Ads
Snapchat Neuroscience Study Reveals AR Ads Deliver Uplift In Emotional Engagement And Immersion
Snap Inc. announced the debut line-up of advertising partners for Commercials, Snapchat’s six-second unskippable ads that run across Snapchat Shows in the UK. EE and Mars are among the first advertisers to take advantage of the new ad format which will be available across the entire Shows platform in the UK. Commercials are available through Snap’s […]
A new study into the representation of women in ads reveals the UK population is blighted by unrealistic stereotypes in the media. Three-quarters (77%) of women claimed they find the way women are generally portrayed in advertising to be stereotypical. Around two-thirds (65%) of men agreed. When asked which stereotypical representations they found to be most […]
The leading commercial model agency, MOT Models, confirms that the UK digital advertising market is in exceptionally strong health. An analysis of all of the model bookings invoiced in the first quarter of 2013 shows that digital usage of model imagery now accounts for 59 per cent of all of the agency’s bookings. Digital usage […]
DVRs and delayed viewing have caused a conundrum for the advertising industry – with up to 80% of people who record shows fast forwarding through commercials, how do you get their attention? DDB Brussels has developed, what they call, a new form of advertising: the slowmercial, where the movement is relatively static, so that even […]
WPP and client Ford have apologized for a series of controversial online ads that were created and posted by a JWT India staffer. JWT is one of WPP’s global agency networks. The ads, which were not authorized, were posted Friday and taken down after the client and agency became aware of them. One of the […]
Nearly one-third of viewers to the Super Bowl were so taken with commercials during the game that they watched at least one of the spots again online afterwards. A new survey from media shop Mindshare polled nearly 2,200 adults in the days following the game (Feb. 4-6) and 31% of those who watched the game indicated […]
This year’s average Super Bowl commercial price is expected to climb to about the same level as a year ago — close to 10% — with many commercials bought at $4 million for a 30-second commercial. Average pricing for a 30-second commercial for this year’s big football game on Feb. 3 on CBS featuring the […]