The Channel That Stole Christmas

By Callum McCahon, Strategy Director, Born Social.

The Channel That Stole Christmas

“Leading with a social media campaign at Christmas? Previously, this idea would have gone down about as well as telling a room full of children that Santa isn’t real.” Ah, it’s Christmas campaign season again; the highlight of the marketing year.  We knew they were going to look different this year, how could they not? […]

Nature Valley inspires UK to #visitnature with Tripadvisor

Nature Valley inspires UK to #visitnature with Tripadvisor

Creative agency Space has developed a campaign for Nature Valley that sees the UK’s #2 cereal bar brand teaming up with Tripadvisor, the world’s largest travel platform, to encourage Brits to explore some of the UK’s most beautiful nature spots, in a new £1.8 million #visitnature campaign. Nature Valley #visitnature – Competition from Space on Vimeo. Nature […]

Cadbury presents ‘Battle of the Inventors’

Try the three new limited edition bars and vote for your favourite

Cadbury presents ‘Battle of the Inventors’

Last year, Cadbury asked the public to invent a brand new Cadbury Dairy Milk bar.  Thousands of entries were narrowed down to just three, and the new campaign introduces a head-to-head battle between Taylor’s ‘Out of the Blueberry’, Shannon’s ‘Crunchy Honeycomb’ and Gillian’s ‘Coconutty’ to see which bar gets to stay on shelves. The winner will be […]

Digital 2020: More than half of the people on Earth now use social media

Digital 2020: More than half of the people on Earth now use social media

More than half the world’s population now uses social media, according to the latest Digital 2020 report from We Are Social, the socially-led creative agency and Hootsuite, the global leader in social media management.  Digital 2020: July Global Statshot Report shows that 3.96 billion people use social media today, accounting for around 51 percent of […]

SOFIDEL chooses Grey in Europe as its Social Media Agency

The European assignment includes Regina and Regina Cartacamomilla

SOFIDEL chooses Grey in Europe as its Social Media Agency

Following a successful 4 year relationship developing their advertising campaigns for the Regina brand, Sofidel, worldwide leader in the production of tissue paper for hygienic and domestic use, have chosen Grey in Europe as their social media agency in 6 European Countries: Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, Poland and Romania.  “In order to better implement our on- […]

Samsung UK appoints RAPP UK for social brief

Samsung UK appoints RAPP UK for social brief

Following a competitive pitch, Samsung – one of the world’s leading electronics brands – has appointed RAPP UK to support its social media strategy in the UK Working closely with the in house Marketing and Social Media teams, RAPP will be responsible for the campaign planning, creative development and implementation as well as the strategic […]

Men share their feelings on social media, as ‘realistic’ and funny content gains traction

Almost half social media users feel under less pressure to portray unrealistic image of life since lockdown 46% of men are opening up about personal struggles on social media Funny videos are widely shared by all generations, Gen Z drives sharing of memes Facebook is the top social platform for helping people feel connected

Men share their feelings on social media, as ‘realistic’ and funny content gains traction

Almost half (42%) of social media users in the U.S. and UK say that they are under less pressure to portray an unrealistic image of their life during the Covid-19 pandemic and corresponding lockdowns, according to 2,419 internet users surveyed in the U.S. and UK by GlobalWebIndex and We Are Social.  In contrast, only 23% […]

IKEA invites everyone to ‘feel at home’ for the LGBT+ community in new campaign

IKEA invites everyone to ‘feel at home’ for the LGBT+ community  in new campaign

IKEA has marked this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (Sunday, May 17th) with the launch of a new campaign, #BeSomeonesHome – spreading a global message of acceptance and support for the LGBT+ community across 25 of the 30 markets in which the Ingka Group operates.  For many LGBT+ people, discrimination is still […]

Artificial intelligence brand Futr launches new identity designed by Lantern

Artificial intelligence brand Futr launches new identity designed by Lantern

Artificial intelligence brand Futr has launched a new identity across all of its marketing communications. Designed by London based branding agency Lantern, this new identity will help Futr reach new audiences. Most notably local authorities and police forces can use it without charge during the COVID-19 crisis Several are already using it to update people […]