Add J. Crew and American Girl to the list of retailers betting big with their holiday campaigns on ad units launched by Facebook and Instagram. J.Crew bought Instagram ads that include a “Shop Now” button, making its gift guide digital. And for the past week, J.Crew’s Instagram page has been promoting an iPhone case that […]
Real Madrid is one of the most popular football team in the world, with 85m fans on Facebook and 17.5m followers on Twitter, so a partnership based around its biggest match of the year is a massive win for Snapchat, who hosted one of its Live Stories based around the side’s clash with F.C. Barcelona […]
Durex is calling for the creation of a condom emoji to help young people communicate about safe-sex ahead of World AIDS Day. The #CondomEmoji campaign is running across YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, with an accompanying video explaining the reasoning behind the project. Durex has claimed that emojis are perceived as a “new language” by millennials […]
Google has updated the look of Google+ as it looks to respond to user feedback and put “Communities and Collections front and centre”. Now focused around interests, Google+ is simpler and easier to use and has been rebuilt across web, Android and iOS for a faster and more consistent experience across all devices. “Whether it’s […]
For the first time in the history of the Spanish Christmas Lottery, features an animated short, telling a story that illustrates one of the most important characteristics of the Christmas Lottery and these holidays: the joy of sharing. The campaign by the Leo Burnett agency, uses the same claim as in 2014, “There’s no bigger […]
Strengthening its growth and diversifying its reach across sectors, Cheil India, India’s Top 5 advertising and marketing communications agency, has been adding accounts at a rapid pace over the past few months. In addition to the Retail mandate it won recently, Cheil has been named as the Social Media Agency on record by . The […]
Unicef UK is launching a powerful new film created by Don’t Panic London highlighting the charity’s work for children in conflicts and emergencies. The film coincides with a new Unicef report showing that the number of children who have sought asylum in the European Union has almost doubled compared to the same period last year. […]
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 […]
Twitter has fired up a fast-paced new TV commercial crafted by TBWA\Chiat\Day in an effort to draw a younger demographic to the micro blogging service. Running throughout the US World Series the campaign takes the form of a zippy, meme based journey through the Twitter-sphere before slowing things right down to highlight Twitter Moments – […]
Americans have many, many options nearby to buy their Halloween candy, so Target is offering a little technological fun to get an edge on the competition. The Minneapolis-based chain debuted Treatster, a social-minded website that’s designed for desktop and mobile devices and lets viewers search for the best trick-or-treating locations in their neighborhoods. When viewers […]