Video-sharing website YouTube has rolled out a new ‘play’ logo to its social media and app platforms, but has retained its existing brand on its desktop site. The new logo, which is being used on YouTube’s Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as apps, features a red play button within a white bubble, as well […]
Tire Company Goodyear launches its new summer tire EfficientGrip Performance with an unusual marketing idea. The paddle-wheel of Hamburg’s famous steamboat “Louisiana Star” was covered with a special design that transforms it into an almost 7 meter high tire. The paddle wheel-tire was seen in the Port of Hamburg and on the river Elbe. Since 1999 […]
Pocket Shop, a new one-hour supermarket online ordering service, is rolling out across London. The service is aimed at users who need grocery items quickly, for example if they have run out of milk or forgot to buy teabags in their weekly online shop. Pocket Shop founder Hemal Kuntawala says, ‘The idea came because while you […]
Even before Al Jazeera America made it to the airwaves on Tuesday, it was already in the middle of its first carriage dispute. On its first day of service, the network filed a lawsuit against AT&T, which dropped AJAM from its U-Verse service on Monday at 11:59. The network went live at 3 p.m. yesterday […]
Google has launched its premium music streaming service Play Music All Access in the UK and is initially undercutting Spotify’s premium offering on price, with an introductory £7.99 per month offering. The service lets subscribers stream tracks to connected devices from a library of millions of tracks sourced from the music industry’s leading major and […]
Yahoo is set to rebrand next month, and is showing 30 variations of the new identity before the final new logo launches. The new identity is set to launch on 4 September, and a different iteration of it will be used on the Yahoo homepage each day before the launch, in an initiative Yahoo calls […]
The launch of BT Sport on August 1 will be backed by major advertisers keen to tap into the consumer interest around how its content will match up to Sky Sports. Brands including Adidas, Barclays, Microsoft, O2, KFC, Ladbrokes and Carling will be among the advertisers appearing in the commercial breaks when BT Sport’s two […]
Mastercard has announced the UK rollout of its digital wallet service dubbed MasterPass, with retailers including Argos, Boots, House of Fraser and The Hut Group, as well as credit card provider MBNA, confirmed as launch partners. MasterPass lets users upload their payment and loyalty card details to a compatible digital wallet, which can be used […]
The word “the” is the most commonly-used word of the English language; it makes an appearance in around 80% of all written paragraphs. To recognize its usage and usefulness, Melbourne-based Australian restaurateur Paul Mathis has created a new symbol as a short-formed substitute for “the”. The “the” symbol looks like what happens when an uppercase […]
Toshiba will launch its Ultra HD sets in the U.S. in August, with its 84-inch model listed $8,000 cheaper than Sony’s. Sharp is also getting in the game with a 70-inch set. The 4K sets, which offer resolution some four times greater than HD, are on sale even as 4K TV content is embryonic. The […]