Cannes Lions and HP introduce #MoreLikeMe, a pilot mentoring program designed to build and strengthen diverse creative talent. The program builds on HP’s marketing Diversity Scorecard to support its agencies in their journey of encouraging more diverse creative talent and teams. The program will select 15 racially and ethnically diverse rising stars from the UK, […]
South African Tourism has launched its latest out of home advertising campaign across four major cities in the UK to inspire consumers to book the holiday of a lifetime to South Africa. In partnership with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, more than 100 taxis, emblazoned with striking imagery of South Africa’s iconic wildlife, will be driving […]
UK desktop video ad viewability rose by 7.9 percentage points during 2017, driven by a narrowing performance gap between programmatic and publisher direct trading, according to new research. The latest Integral Ad Science Media Quality Report highlights the state of viewability, brand safety, and ad fraud within the UK digital advertising industry The H2 2017 report highlights […]
Government pension guidance service Pension Wise is to launch a tongue-in-cheek campaign with comedic companions David Baddiel and Frank Skinner. The campaign, which launches on March 30, brings the comedians together on TV again and aims to get people thinking about pensions with a witty fly-on-the-wall style dialogue. The creative encourages adults over 50 years […]
WARC, the international authority on advertising and media effectiveness, has released its latest monthly Global Ad Trends report, digesting up-to-date insights and evidenced thinking from the worldwide advertising industry. Threats to the digital advertising ecosystem is the focus of the latest report. WARC estimates that $63.4bn was spent on programmatic advertising worldwide last year, but […]
Creative agency Contrapunto BBDO Madrid, has launched a new film for Amnesty International in Spain. The short “Planet J” uses animation as a resource to talk about the situation of human rights on our planet. The NGO denounces injustice, lack of help to refugees, evictions, discrimination against women, lack of freedom of expression and invites us […]
Adverty, the next generation advertising platform, has announced the release of the world’s first programmatic AR & VR advertising platform for native in-app ad inventory. The platform will be available at some of the world’s largest SSPs (supply-side platform) and allows global agencies, brands and DSPs (demand-side platform) immediate access to a new type of […]
No James-Bond-style courier-spy is complete without his beautiful but rugged suitcase, says a new five minute ad from luggage maker Tumi. Alexander Skarsgård of True Blood and Big Little Lies fame plays a mysterious man of impeccable taste and considerable means in the moody fashion campaign from EP+Co. He embarks on a cloak-and-dagger mission […]
No one can accuse luxury brands of cutting corners where advertising spend is concerned. On average, they divert 8% of their turnover into funding advertising initiatives. In the US for example, luxury brands invested more than $5 billion in advertising last year, accounting for a significant portion of overall marketing expenditure. Love it or hate […]
Amid growing industry speculation about cuts to digital advertising budgets, Zenith has found no evidence that advertisers as a whole are shifting budgets away from online advertising – in fact, its share of global advertising expenditure continues to rise rapidly. Zenith forecasts that advertisers will spend 40.2% of their budgets on online advertising this year, […]