http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQ40gcJLXc Halfords has unveiled three new ads as part of its ‘cheaper than a favour’ campaign: Bob, Needles and Timmy & the Gazman. Created by Mother, the ads use different scenarios to demonstrate that no favour is truly ‘free’ – as people feel obliged to return an act of kindness, often to their cost. Halfords […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCK9HXqC18A Renault UK has unveiled the idents which will form part of its 11-week sponsorship of The Jonathan Ross Show, airing October 12. The idents take the theme of ‘animal attraction’ and focus on the brand’s latest three models: the Renault Captur crossover, the Renault Clio and the Renault ZOE. Two 10-second spots have been […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qpsOdM6X0Q The Red Brick Road have developed a new campaign to launch Suzuki’s new crossover four wheel drive – the SX4 S-Cross. The fully integrated campaign features TV, radio, outdoor, press, digital, social media, POS, dealer marketing, CRM and brochures. The idea builds on the ‘Have to Have It’ thought that launched a repositioning of […]
Elle magazine has paired Mother, Brave and Widen & Kennedy with three groups of feminists, to create campaigns that try to define the modern face of feminism, for its November issue. The ‘Rebranding Feminism’ project aims to re-imagine the feminist movement for today, in the context of pay gaps, stereotypes and the fact that the […]
Transport for London (TfL) has launched a ‘Travel Better London’ Poetry Initiative to coincide with National Poetry Day on 3 October. Devised by M&C Saatchi, the campaign has been created to encourage happier considerate behaviour amongst commuters with a combination of written poems forming the print element and live performances from some of the 13 […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMi9swYqbN4 As part of its Fall campaign, Levi’s has collaborated with agency AKQA, Stephen Hadinger, Matthew Epler and Mark Kleback, to turn vintage technology into modern devices that connect to social media. Called ‘#MakeOurMark’, these “old-school” devices were modified to serve as a “bridge between past and present”—for example, an old 1939 Bolex Movie Camera […]
Tesco Mobile has unveiled the third stage of its #nojoke campaign, with five customers offered the chance to win a Samsung Galaxy S4 and contract… if they could persuade a friend to change to Tesco Mobile right then and there. Created by Jam, the #nojoke campaign combines social media, real time content creation and online […]
Nokia UK has tweeted in response to the news that cats paws are able to unlock the iPhone 5s through its fingerprint sensor Touch ID. We aren’t cat-proof either… http://t.co/Awwvrzy54z pic.twitter.com/Y9X1ej1qmH— Nokia UK (@nokia_uk) September 23, 2013 The tweet follows an experiment by TechCrunch, which saw a cat’s paw successfully unlock the device, created to […]
Pinterest has announced plans to bring advertising to its platform for the first time in the form of Promoted Pins, a move that follows several recent attempts to make itself more attractive to advertisers. The three-year old business, which has previously voiced its reluctance to running ads, has promised the service will be “tasteful”, “relevant’ […]
To help Capital One advertise for its Venture Card, Ryan Hamrick came up with an interactive online ad campaign called “#Bucketlist”. Using this hashtag, Hamrick asked the Twitter community about their travel dreams, getting a Tumblr artist to hand-letter each tweet. The result is an eye-catching series of posters which capture the wanderlust within all […]