J. Walter. Thompson deconstructs American brands and their position on the world stage to explore the opportunities and the challenges posed by the climate under the current administration in ‘Brand America’ a new report published by JWT Intelligence on September 27. While perceptions of Brand America have taken a turn for the worse recently, American […]
New research from Future Thinking has found that the consumer response to the iPhone launch remains underwhelming amid a growing backlash against smartphone evolution. 20% of British consumers said: “I don’t want a smartphone – I just want a phone that makes calls.” Only 5% said they planned to upgrade to an iPhone soon after […]
Instagram’s new logo launch last Wednesday has certainly divided opinion amongst the public, as well as the design community. The new vibrant design is such a departure from its comparatively plain brown and grey predecessor that the move has generated much attention. According to Instagram’s official blog: “The Instagram community has evolved over the past five years from a […]
Apple is introducing native ads to Apple News. Bought through iAd, as with all News ads, the new native format will appear alongside regular articles in the content feeds. They’re identical to any other story – displaying an image, title and short excerpt, all in the app’s default font – except for a small ‘sponsored by’ tag. Interestingly, including the advertiser name’s in […]
Traditional holiday marketing campaigns have concentrated for years on competitive messages designed to sway buyers toward their products and services. But in 2015, Microsoft has taken a different approach. On November 16, 2015 a group of 37 Microsoft Employees from around the country gathered in New York City at the company’s new flagship store with […]
Call me crazy, but I think over the past few weeks Apple became a major player in the advertising world and very few people noticed it. First came the new Apple TV. With it, two very special updates: universal search and AppleOS. One makes it a potential driver of traffic to all major video content […]
Apple has removed a number of ad blocking apps from its App Store, expressing concerns that the security of users’ personal data could be at risk in certain circumstances due to so-called “man in the middle” breaches. While Apple now permits ad blockers on its Safari web browser, the banned apps also block in-app advertising […]
Apple aired the first ad for the new iPhone 6S during its keynote this week, featuring singer Selena Gomez and US comedian Bill Hader. The ad, called ‘The only thing that’s changed…’ emphasises the new touch interface on the iPhone 6S, called ‘3D Touch’. It can distinguish between different types of pressure on the screen, […]
Toyota has seized on Siri voice control and uses a radio spot to interact with drivers’ mobile phones. Saatchi & Saatchi, together with the motoring giants, developed the ad, in order to get people to think twice before using the cell phone while driving. The radio spot simply communicates to the mobile to switch itself […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gLqh8tmPA Apple has kicked off the promotion of its latest tablet device the iPad Air with an online and TV ad featuring Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston as a voiceover artist. The TV ad is narrated by Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston. The US technology and online services giant brought months of speculation to an […]