CULT welcomes Lauren Smeets as its new Talent Strategist. Smeets joins the agency from millennial e-commerce platform, Student High Street where she held the role as Influencer Manager, here she developed and executed strategy, managed relationships between influencers and brands and monitored and analysed influencer engagement across social media. Before joining this ‘destination platform’, Smeets […]
Debenhams launches two major Beauty initiatives this month to further strengthen its position as a leader in the premium beauty market. The initiatives drive a ‘digital first’ strategy for the department store and see both online and offline environments created that encourage customers to explore, discover and debate all things beauty. Beauty Club Community The […]
Following the success of On Demand – the instant messaging service used to search for the products requested by customers in the Milan flagship store and have them delivered anywhere they want – Rinascente presents WeChat On Demand. The aim is to extend the company’s personal concierge service, which was launched almost a year ago […]
Billion Dollar Boy, a global influencer marketing agency, is announcing the launch of StoryTracker, an industry first AI-powered Instagram Story tracking tool. This unique piece of software allows influencers and influencer marketing professionals to locate, categorise, save, download and analyse Instagram Stories before they disappear. With Instagram recently releasing figures showing that Stories now has […]
Following months of research, global socially-led creative agency We Are Social has launched ‘Braving the Backlash’ – a new report which aims to offer practical advice on how brands can approach sensitive issues in their marketing, and properly manage hate speech and negativity online. Hate on social media is a growing issue, and when the […]
Siemens has teamed up with the breadth of The Economist Group to convert the hidden story of fan energy at football matches into visuals, using pioneering sound mapping technology from the Group’s data design agency Signal Noise. Acoustic Camera technology will be used to capture sound data at FC Bayern home games at Allianz Arena during the 2018-19 […]
How do we really feel about the infamous British weather? A new analysis of how we used emojis in social media during the recent heatwave busts the myths and also shines a light on key differences in how men and women convey emotions on social channels. Overall, the most used emojis to describe the heatwave, […]
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has launched a new feature to its Instagram account: turning its Stories feature into a place to host actual stories. This feature, which NYPL has called ‘Instanovels’, shall include classic works starting with Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, formatted for the mobile space with illustrations throughout to enhance […]
Have you ever been so excited about something that you wanted to tell the world? Well, McDonald’s Canada and Cossette took that concept to new heights on #NationalFrenchFryDay and gave McDonald’s fans an opportunity to shout their love of fries across Canada. McDonald’s launched the first-ever FRIESTREAM, a live stream of a drive-thru speaker […]
With an ongoing political crisis, Brazilians are increasingly concerned about political matters in the country. They keep a close eye on every news story about the Government and are actively discussing the issues on social media. One such issue was the fact that state-owned Correios had imposed a 51% increase in shipping. Something that affects everyone who buys […]