Youth charity The Prince’s Trust has partnered with independent agency Rufus Leonard to launch a refreshed visual identity and newly redesigned website offering an improved user experience for young people and supporters. The new Prince’s Trust website has been designed by Rufus Leonard to be mobile responsive, accessible and easy-to-navigate, with clear user journeys and […]
Of all the people globally on the internet, about half of them, nearly 1.5 billion, are on Facebook. The question for Facebook is how it and its advertisers will reach what it calls the next billion people, who will often be coming online for the first time, often only on mobile, and often on a […]
Researching and buying presents online has become the most popular method among Britons aged 16 and over who know how they’ll be buying there Christmas presents, with 45 per cent of the £24.4bn spend this year likely to go online. According to research by RadiumOne, this year is also likely to be a multi-channel Christmas, […]
Digital and direct marketing specialist, LIDA, has created a data-driven email campaign for East Midlands Trains aimed at providing customers with real-time and geo-targeted information on how long it takes to drive from their nearest station to London St Pancras. Tasked with communicating that travelling by train is primarily quicker than driving, the agency has […]
Apple has announced partnerships with 14 leading publishers as its news app launches in the UK. Apple News brings together content from titles including the BBC, Telegraph, Guardian, Sun and Sky News and present them in a single app that will replace the built-in newsstand app as part of the iOS 9.1 update. Other major […]
YouTube has confirmed long-rumoured plans for an ad-free subscription version of the online video streaming service, with users able to pay $9.99 (£6.45) a month starting from 28 October to access a service that combines an ad-free YouTube with its Play Music on-demand service. The service will be YouTube’s first attempt at creating a premium, […]
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 […]
To celebrate Back to the Future Day on Oct 21st, 2015 (the day Marty time travels to in the film), BMB will be putting up a 1985 version of the agency’s website for one day. 1985 was a time of arcade machines, ZX Spectrums and Ceefax and the BMB team has used these as inspiration.
Ads taking too long to load are costing the UK advertising industry the equivalent of £1bn a year, according to the latest figures released by European ad verification company Meetrics. The report by Meetrics found that around fifth of ads fail to load properly before a user has moved on, meaning they are never seen […]
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 […]