Samsung Electronics Australia has announced the creation of the brainBAND Project, centered on the global initiative Launching People. Designed to push the boundaries of technology and facilitate research into concussion. The brainBAND Project is the work of Dr. Alan Pearce and Braden Wilson who were brought together for the project by Leo Burnett Sydney on […]
Momentum is building towards a sugar tax. What does this mean for Britain’s sugary brands? Earlier in March 2016, the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, stated unequivocally that the idea remains on the table. He was echoing a statement made by the Prime Minister in January, and advice issued by Public Health England in October. The […]
During the peak of flu season in Poland, Saatchi & Saatchi/ Interactive Solutions Poland and Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland have joined forces to create a tool that detects fever – one of the main flu symptoms – and have introduced the World’s first outdoor ad that can check if you have a fever using a […]
In a bid to generate conversation and awareness in the fight against HIV and AIDS this World AIDS Day (1 December), the MTV Staying Alive Foundation and Y&R New York have teamed up to create “Sext Life”, a tongue in cheek, faux-raunchy short film that brings sexting emojis to life in situations that would be […]
The Wellcome Trust has launched The Crunch, a major new public engagement initiative around our food, our health and our planet, featuring brand, visual identity, messaging, website and digital assets by creative design consultancy Blast. Major new initiative The future of food is one of the biggest challenges on our plate. Our relationship with food […]
Ogilvy & Mather London has created a new campaign for Royal Philips as part of a wider drive to change public perception of the brand. The latest activity supports Philips’ shift from its traditional image as an electronics company, to its present day status as a health-tech organisation that improves lives through meaningful innovations. Launching […]
Channel 5 has marked the launch of its new real life series The Gift of Life with an arresting marketing campaign designed to highlight the plight of the 7000 people in the UK who are currently waiting for an organ transplant. A group of actors, dressed as hospital patients in surgical gowns and pushing saline […]
The British Heart Foundation has hammered home the sudden cruelty of heart disease in an emotive multi-channel campaign by DLKW Lowe. Called ‘Heart disease is heartless’, the campaign centres on a TV and cinema ad which shows a young boy about to lose his father to heart disease. Carolan Davidge, director of marketing and engagement […]
Chupa Chups Airheads announces it is sponsoring the Children and Young Person’s Courage category at the upcoming annual Life After Stroke Awards on 25th June at the Rosewood, London. The awards celebrate the extraordinary achievements of Stroke survivors and those connected, be it carers, health professionals, volunteers or friends and family. Sixteen year old popstar […]
Breast Cancer Now, the new charity created from April’s merger of Breast Cancer Campaign and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, launches June 15 with the ambition of stopping women dying from breast cancer by 2050. The largest breast cancer charity in the UK, Breast Cancer Now has vowed to fund the brightest researchers from across the UK […]