The former Time Inc. UK Marketing Director of Advertising, Lisa Batty, has launched a new trade marketing consultancy dedicated to creating events with a ‘memorable’ twist. Her Co-founder and Chairman is ex Havas Media UK Group CEO Mark Craze. Drawing on their combined experience of more than 50 years, the duo will work with media […]
Time Out has curated and created an eight-week event series, taking London’s best experiences from the pages of its website and magazine to the sky. Working closely with The Story Lab and Vizeum, the ‘Time Out’s Eye-Openers’ campaign is built around a series of unique events in the Coca-Cola London Eye capsules this summer. The […]
Barclaycard is launching an integrated marketing campaign with help from The Muppets to show customers how they can get more from their live entertainment experience. The multi-channel campaign for the new show-stopping proposition, ‘Barclaycard Entertainment’, will build on the brand’s heritage in entertainment by introducing benefits exclusively for cardholders – including ticket offers and perks […]
One of the biggest news out of 2017’s Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity didn’t concern any dazzling campaigns but, rather, Publicis Groupe’s announcement that it would forbid all of its agencies from entering Cannes or any other awards shows next year. Now, WPP, the world’s largest holding group, has continued its threats to follow suit […]
jj Media Group is bringing its production service divisions together under one brand to become the UK’s largest production service company. With the move coming as CEO Josh Jones pledges to better service the UK’s growing content economy. Locations, Studios, Events and Equipment Hire have now been brought under one cohesive brand identity, jj Media […]
Carlsberg UK has kick started the festival season in true Scandinavian style with the launch of its new Danish Quarter, which so far this summer has welcomed festival-goers through its doors at Latitude Festival. The five-year landmark sponsorship deal with Live Nation, one of the world’s leading live entertainment company behind some of the largest […]
New research unveiled on July 17, has shown that the events & experiential sector is seeing a huge rise in interest from buyers: there were 35 deals in H1 2017, more than double the number (14) in the same period last year. It was the biggest half-year for deal volumes seen in the last three […]
Burger King is engaging its fans in Finland by embracing the national stereotype with a fast food spa. Located downstairs at a Burger King’s Mannerheimintie outlet in Helsinki, the red hot activation allows diners to enjoy a Big Whopper with fries while chilling in a branded dressing gown. The installation has been designed by interior […]
PR firm Hotwire has been analysing the conversations taking place on Twitter around 2016’s Mobile World Congress show. The firm looked at tweets with the hashtag #MWC16 – of which there were 405,132 at the time the stats were released – using the Pulsar social analysis tool to establish the brands and the trends generating […]
Marketing luminaries from Mars Inc., Unilever, DDB and Mondelez International have been confirmed as speakers at the Cannes Lions, an eight day event that brings together branded communications professionals in an international festival of creativity. The first speakers confirmed include Mars Inc. global CMO Bruce McColl, DDB’s president and CEO for North America Wendy Clark, […]