Total brand experience agency Momentum Worldwide has appointed Dean Taylor, formerly Head of Retention and Customer Insight at Virgin Active, to the newly created role of Director of Creative Strategy. Reporting into Luke D’Arcy, Momentum Worldwide’s UK President, Taylor will oversee Momentum Worldwide’s team of planners and digital strategists across the London and Manchester offices. […]
The Next Rembrandt has been unveiled in Amsterdam: a 3D printed painting, made solely from data of Rembrandt’s body of work. Thus bringing the Master of Light and Shadow back to life to create one more painting. Only this time, data is the painter, and technology the brush. A portrait of a man in black 17th-century […]
Microsoft on January 14 introduced a new version of the logo for Bing, the No. 2 search engine, switching to green from yellow and putting the “b” in upper case. The changes come partly because the green “is easier to see over yellow,” a Microsoft spokeswoman said, and because the new look displays well “across Windows […]
Traditional holiday marketing campaigns have concentrated for years on competitive messages designed to sway buyers toward their products and services. But in 2015, Microsoft has taken a different approach. On November 16, 2015 a group of 37 Microsoft Employees from around the country gathered in New York City at the company’s new flagship store with […]
Former mobile giant Nokia is looking to pivot its offering into Hollywood with its recently announced OZO virtual reality camera. The communications specialist, having sold its mobile production unit to Microsoft in 2014, is hoping to trump several tech start-ups working on VR capture devices with the $60,000 OZO camera. The Helsinki-based company is courting […]
Yahoo has signed an agreement with Google as the new provider of Yahoo’s search ads, after ending its exclusive deal with Microsoft’s Bing in April. The deal, which covers both Yahoo’s own properties and certain affiliate sites, will see ads served through Google’s AdSense for Search. Yahoo will receive an undisclosed percentage of the resulting […]
AOL UK will be the exclusive content supplier to TalkTalk’s online consumer portal and serve ads using its ad tech platform. The companies have announced a new syndication deal in which AOL will now power the news and TV guide sections of talktalk.co.uk, with content from The Huffington Post as well as AOL’s news, travel […]
Microsoft, an official sponsor of the US National Football League, is asking fans to submit ideas to improve the game for viewers and players in a new initiative called the ‘Imagine Bowl’. Looking to improve the NFL on the field, at the game and for viewers at home, the tech giant is inviting innovators to […]
Microsoft has released a new global spot called ‘The Ones Who Will Do Great Things’ that aims to drive home the idea that the children of today will go on to change the world one day with the help of Windows 10. The one-minute video follows another that was released in July when the Windows […]
Following a competitive pitch, communications agency Exposure has been appointed as lead creative agency for Microsoft’s newest tablet, the Surface 2, in an integrated four month campaign starting December, 2013. Campaign activity aims to bring audiences together through a creative approach that drives them along the journey to purchase. Activity includes advertising, media partnerships, influencer […]