Publicis Groupe Salutes Cannes Lions’ initiative and reconfirms its participation from 2019 Onwards

Publicis Groupe Salutes Cannes Lions’ initiative and reconfirms its participation from 2019 Onwards

Following their announcement of pulling out of all awards program until 2018 at Cannes, Publicis Groupe have now revealed they are pleased with the changes the Cannes Lions Festival has made in order to ‘course correct’ and bring their focus back to creativity. “As a founding partner of the Cannes Lions and a strong supporter of its goal of […]

Children give their predictions for the future of technology in new campaign for BBC micro:bit

Children give their predictions for the future of technology in new campaign for BBC micro:bit

[KGVID width=”600″ height=”338″]https://marcommnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/BBC_Microbit_30s_WIP.mp4[/KGVID] Schoolchildren give their unique take on where technology will go in the next thirty years in the new BBC Masterbrand campaign for BBC micro:bit. BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized, codeable computer that allows young people to get creative with technology, and it is being supplied to around one million Year Seven or […]

Cannes Lions Says ‘Thank You Creativity’ for 2016 Campaign

Cannes Lions Says ‘Thank You Creativity’ for 2016 Campaign

The campaign promoting the 2016 International Festival of Creativity is about being grateful for great ideas. Developed in-house, Thank You Creativity is intended as a love letter to imagination and craft, and a reminder of their purpose and power. “We make the case for creativity because we know that it’s a force for business, for […]

Look Back at the Most Contagious 2015

Look Back at the Most Contagious 2015

Most Contagious is an annual, uniquely curated innovation event in London staged by Contagious Communications. It celebrates the biggest innovations and analyses the most impactful marketing from the year to decipher what influence these will have on the immediate future for brands and advertising. On 9th December, we at MarComm News managed to nab a […]

Agencies see creativity, programmatic & mobile as the big opportunities for native advertising

Agencies see creativity, programmatic & mobile as the big opportunities for native advertising

New research has revealed the changing face of the UK’s native advertising market: there is more confidence and budget, with programmatic and mobile seen as the two main areas for growth. The second annual independent survey into this market was commissioned by native advertising platform Adyoulike and covered all major agencies and agency trading desks […]

We Are Social redraws the globe, according to Cannes

We Are Social redraws the globe, according to Cannes

In the run-up to Cannes Lions, global agency We Are Social has created the ‘Cannesogram’– an interactive cartogram that reveals how countries have performed over the last ten years. The countries are displayed with a combination of colour and size changes according to how successful they have been in the revered adland awards. Users can […]

Only For Children: Child Abuse Ad Shell

Here’s a brilliant Ad Shell idea designed to raise awareness for Child Abuse, but also to communicate directly to the child (complete with phone number to call), without the parents or potential aggressors even knowing. Taking the average height for adults and children under 10, they created two different messages based off the viewers height/perspective, […]

John Lewis Unveils AR Campaign For Samsung Smart TVs

John Lewis Unveils AR Campaign For Samsung Smart TVs

Two flagship John Lewis stores in central London have has their windows transformed to promote Samsung’s latest Smart TVs using augmented reality. Created by TRO Group, the campaign launched today and is set to run for a month, and includes an AR interface which allows the user to control a number of content scenarios that […]