Looking ahead to 2016, Mintel’s Senior Trends Consultant Richard Cope discusses the five key UK consumer trends set to impact the market, including implications for both consumers and brands in the year ahead. My Mind’s Eye Virtual and augmented reality technologies enter our homes and businesses to entertain, trial and train. “A host of virtual […]
Brands’ cost-per-reach is optimised when 24 per cent of a TV advertising budget is allocated to YouTube, said Eileen Naughton, Google’s managing director of UK and Ireland operations, at the Brandcast event on October 13. The Brandcast event, held at the Battersea Evolution and attended by representatives from around 900 companies and agencies, was aimed […]
Twitter’s new CEO Jack Dorsey was among the presenters at an event recently in New York, which saw the social network roll out a new series of video ad features for publishers and marketers, expanding the company’s Amplify ad program considerably. Publishers who post videos on Twitter will now be able to more effectively monetise […]
International content company, The Moment, has completed the third and final instalment from the first year of Kenco’s inspiring Coffee vs Gangs project. Set in the heart of Honduras, the scheme is actively helping young people to escape the pull of dangerous gangs, and build a new life through training and development from coffee farming, […]
Looks like Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest beer company, and SABMiller, its top competitor, will indeed join forces to create one giant beer company. SABMiller previously rejected at least three offers from AB InBev, suggesting that the offers were too low. The brands were able to agree “in principle” today on AB InBev’s fifth offer […]
Happy Finish, a pioneer and world-leader in augmented reality and virtual reality, announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with GroupM, the world’s leading media investment group owned by WPP. Happy Finish’s offices in India and China will work closely with GroupM’s content teams across the Asia Pacific region to help develop creative solutions […]
Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner has taken the dramatic decision to back a ban on female nudity within his soft porn bible after agreeing with critics that full frontal shots are ‘passé’ in a world of ubiquitous online porn. The new edict will come into effect from March 2016, when the title will pursue ‘provocative’ […]
Four out of five advertisers and marketers plan to increase their use of social media next year, even if many are unsure on how to measure its effectiveness, according to new research. The Content Marketing Association’s study, The Role of Social in Content Marketing, asked 100 senior level marketers, media agencies and creative agencies. It […]
Papa John’s, the third largest pizza delivery company in the world, is working with digital marketing company, Rakuten Marketing to drive digital sales through location targeting and raise awareness of a York store opening – its first in Yorkshire. Papa John’s is using Rakuten Marketing’s targeting technology to pinpoint their core audience within a three […]
Percol Coffee Co., famed for launching the first Fairtrade certified ground coffee, has launched its “Cool Beans” campaign in the UK, to support its new packaging as it relaunches its range to the market. The ‘Cool Beans’ concept sees a whole host of coffee bean characters created for the range of award winning coffee, such […]