What are the favourite brands of under 30s audiences? Not what you’d expect… Much is said about how this audience are obsessed with social media. They carefully curate their personal brands, meticulously retouching their selfies and wearing the right gear at all times. It’d be easy to consider this audience as preening, as being totally […]
Global marketing strategy and transformation business CLEAR part of the M&C Saatchi Network, announced the findings of the inaugural ‘Experience Gap’ study. Based on an online survey of more than 34,000 people across the US, UK, Germany and China, the report ranks 225 brands across 8 categories, based on how well they align advertising and […]
Corporate brands that combine a clear sense of purpose with the ability to deliver a complete brand experience are best placed to thrive in the future, according to the 2018 FutureBrand Index – the major perception study of the world’s biggest companies. The Index, published on October 9, re-orders PwC’s Global Top 100 – the […]
The omnipotence of social media means that brands face a stark challenge to remain relevant to an ever-evolving Generation Z being forced to live BETA test their identity, reveals the findings of a new white paper by leading youth creative agency ZAK. As the first generation to truly come of age during the social […]
Most brands and businesses are trying to cope with the challenges caused by a digital world that never stands still, none more so than the fashion and beauty industries. A packed calendar of events across the globe sees brands constantly unveiling new looks for style-conscious consumers to apply to their clothing, hair and make-up. Add […]
Too many major brands are coming late to the party and/or delivering paper-thin token gestures in their ‘show’ of support for causes, says Sense’s Ciara Garratt. Have you noticed how every brand is trying to prove a point at the moment? How every product you pick up in the supermarket now boldly states its protein content? Or, […]
Established brands are switching on to ‘digital-first design’ – Andrew Culbert, co-founder of digital-first branding agency MERó explains why. Like Coca Cola and Airbnb, hundreds of established brands are being forced to change their branding. Some are having to implement a total overhaul, or in the recent (May 2019) case of Airbnb it has unveiled […]
It’s 10 April 2018 and a nervous Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, stands before the US Congress. It’s the turn of 84-year-old US senator and Republican high-tech task force chair Orrin Hatch to ask the questions. Facebook is at the centre of a scandal after it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a British data firm hired […]
Mindshare and Unilever were the most successful agency and brand in the Mobile Marketing sector in 2017. That, according to the recently published Lovely Mobile News Report, Rankings & Awards. Researched, conducted and calculated by Lovely Mobile News, the report is a year-long analysis that also includes the performance of various projects, agencies and brands in the […]
It seems that rarely a week goes by without a new statistic showing just how low consumer confidence has dropped thanks to Brexit. This isn’t great for brands, but this issue seems fleetingly short term compared to the almost equally prevalent statistics about the fragility of young people. The latest report from the annual UK […]