Kevin Bacon beats Jamie Oliver in YouTube cooking battle

Kevin Bacon beats Jamie Oliver in YouTube cooking battle

Jamie Oliver challenges EE ambassador Kevin Bacon to a bacon sandwich cooking competition, in the phone company’s latest ad, in partnership with YouTube. Oliver and Bacon compete to create the best bacon sandwich in the latest campaign, which is being launched exclusively on Oliver’s FoodTube YouTube channel. The film has been created by EE’s digital […]

Nike signs Jessie J to target women across Europe

Nike signs Jessie J to target women across Europe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nql49wrkURY Nike has signed popstar Jessie J to front the European phase of its ‘Just Do It’ 25th anniversary campaign in a bid to motivate women to embrace their potential. The motivational campaign is led by the brand’s “Endless Possibilities” advert featuring several women overcoming ‘testing’ circumstances including running from wolves, swimming to the bottom […]

Newsworks launch ads underlining the value of newsbrands

Newsworks launch ads underlining the value of newsbrands

Newsworks, the marketing body for national newsbrands, has today launched a 12-week multi-platform advertising campaign around the strapline “Papers aren’t just paper anymore”. Created by QI mastermind and best-selling author John Lloyd, who worked with Coldplay designers Tappin Gofton to produce the six ads, ‘Papers aren’t just paper anymore’ is Newsworks and John Lloyd’s first-ever […]

Wretch 32 stars in campaign for rail safety by National Rail

Wretch 32 stars in campaign for rail safety by National Rail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ul6lh0XQ8 Network Rail has unveiled a film and online game – ‘Track Tests’ –with rapper, Wretch 32, and spoken word performer, George the Poet, which looks to stop death and accidents on the tracks. Created by M&C Saatchi, the campaign sees a series of tests highlighting the difficulty of hearing approaching trains to see if […]

Maybelline tops CBS Outdoor’s brand-guessing game

Maybelline tops CBS Outdoor’s brand-guessing game

Maybelline‘s iconic “Maybe she’s born with it” strapline has topped CBS Outdoor‘s brand recognition game in celebration of 150 years of advertising on the London Underground. CBS launched its 150 Brands quiz with a two-week poster campaign, featuring 115 posters across 78 stations that challenged commuters to identify 150 brands that have advertised on the […]

Facebook users ‘witness a stabbing’ with Red Cross app

Facebook users ‘witness a stabbing’ with Red Cross app

The British Red Cross has launched an app that lets users witness a knife attack on a bus, using Facebook data to personalise an online film. The charity’s ‘Witness’ app integrates with a viewer’s Facebook account and inserts information from their profile into the film, which features a young man being stabbed on a night […]

Bartle Bogle Hegarty pulls Barclays spot featuring paedophile

Bartle Bogle Hegarty has been forced to withdraw and re-edit its Barclays “thank you” spot after it emerged that one of the extras in the ad was a convicted paedophile. The 90-second ad promotes Barclays sponsorship of the Premier League and features real fans supporting their teams. The Sun on September 1, reported that one […]

MTV launches online prank campaign

MTV launches online prank campaign

MTV UK has launched an online prank campaign that tricks viewers into thinking they are chatting live in a webcam forum to people from the latest series of ‘Catfish’. The second series of ‘Catfish’ begins on 2 September and follows the stories of couples who have fallen in love online without ever meeting each other […]

Jaguar celebrates England’s Ashes victory

Jaguar celebrates England’s Ashes victory

Jaguar ran a tactical print ad on August 26 to celebrate England’s Ashes victory. The work was created by Jaguar’s in-house agency Spark44 and ran across national newspapers including The Times. Jaguar’s media agency is Mindshare. Beneath the headline “we know that feeling”, the ad shows the England cricket squad, including James Anderson and Jonny […]

Audi launches user-generated 3D microsite

Audi launches user-generated 3D microsite

Audi Germany has launched a real-time interactive microsite that turns user-generated content on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram into a 3D visualization of the latest Audi R8. Razorfish Germany and the creative production company Minivegas were asked to create an engaging web experience that would both find out more about Audi’s fans and thank them for […]