Enjoy Summer Safely is the latest government campaign which encourages the public get back to the things they have missed whilst following COVID-19 safety guidelines
Some of the UK’s most loved brands, including Boots, Carex and O2 have come together to embed the safe behaviours and hygiene habits as part of everyday life They are joined by other brands from the wider hospitality sector, such as McDonalds and Greene King, who are also championing a safety-first approach to reopening the […]
• Research reveals that only 23% of the UK public believe advertising should encourage people to consume, shop and fly like before lockdown.
• 77% think it’s the creative industry’s responsibility to encourage people to behave more sustainably, as we have during lockdown.
Companies from across the UK’s creative industry have come together to launch The Great Reset, an initiative that hopes to maintain and promote the positive behaviours and environmental shifts created during lockdown. Global emissions have decreased by 7% thanks to lockdown, which the UN states is the same annual reduction required to keep global warming to […]
To mark ‘Export Month’ independent global creative agency Crowd is collaborating with the Advertising Association (AA), the Department of International Trade (DIT) and the Institute of Practitioners (IPA). Jamie Sergeant, global CEO at Crowd, will be one of the British representatives at the Shanghai International Advertising Festival and South by Southwest (SXSW) in March. The Shanghai International Advertising Festival […]
UK advertising expenditure grew 4.6% to reach £22.2bn in 2017, the eighth consecutive year of market growth, according to the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report – the UK’s definitive advertising statistics. Continuing the positive results for UK adspend, the final three months of 2017 saw expenditure grow 6.2% in Q4 2017 over Q4 2016, with adspend […]
UK advertising spend in Q3 2017 rose 3.5% year-on-year to reach £5.4bn – the 17th consecutive quarter of market growth, according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data published on January 31. The latest data underpin preliminary figures which show 2017 spending grew to £22.1bn – representing the eighth consecutive year of market growth. Further key […]
UK advertising expenditure grew 3.7% to £10.8bn during the first six months of 2017, the largest H1 total of any year since monitoring began in 1982. The record investment highlighted in Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data, published today, has led to an upgraded forecast for 2017 of 3.1% growth, which indicates annual spend in excess […]
UK advertising expenditure grew 1.3% year-on-year in Q1 2017 to reach £5,318m – the 15th consecutive quarter of growth but the slowest rate in almost four years, according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data published on July 27. Overall market growth occurred despite a drop of -6.2% in total television advertising, its steepest fall since 2009. […]
As more and more branding activities move online, is it time for print media to hand over their advertising spot to influencers? According to the Advertising Association and Warc Expenditure Report which was released in 2016, UK businesses spent: Over £10 billion on digital marketing methods – an increase of 13.4% increase on 2015’s figure. […]
UK advertising spending grew 5.8 per cent year-on-year to reach a record high of £9.42bn in the first half of 2015, with mobile growth exploding to break the billion pound barrier for the first time, according to new data from the Advertising Association/Warc. Digital channels continue to be the primary driver of growth, with internet […]