YouTube partnered with Ad Council on three causes — empowering girls in STEM, preparing for disasters, and ending hunger —challenging AMP Agency and five other world-class creative agencies to explore how a deeper understanding of the people they’re trying to reach could create stories that drive real change. Working with YouTube and Google, the team identified 12 audiences interested in […]
Behavioural communications agency HeyHuman has unveiled neuroscience evidence revealing that ads with a low cognitive load – the mental effort required to process information – actually generate the highest levels of brand recall. The study, launched at SXSW, found that even ads with high levels of engagement can generate negative motivation and low recall levels if the […]
On Saturday, March 9th The Preservation Robot was unveiled at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas by photographic artist Jimmy Nelson. The Preservation Robot is the first autonomous technology ever created to address the homogenisation of human culture, due to the ever-increasing spread of Western culture on the internet. The robot, which was […]
To mark ‘Export Month’ independent global creative agency Crowd is collaborating with the Advertising Association (AA), the Department of International Trade (DIT) and the Institute of Practitioners (IPA). Jamie Sergeant, global CEO at Crowd, will be one of the British representatives at the Shanghai International Advertising Festival and South by Southwest (SXSW) in March. The Shanghai International Advertising Festival […]
Ever since the Bumper Ads format, which plays a commercial for six seconds before the videos on YouTube, was introduced, Google has been challenging major international agencies to overcome their limitations and tell surprising and creative stories in this short period of time. In 2018, for the first time, a Brazilian agency – F/Nazca […]
Virtual Reality has been a hot topic recently, especially at South by Southwest. Why is it especially important now? It is starting to be available to the average person and this has the potential to change the world of marketing. VR dominated the recently concluded SxSW, as a top topic of discussion, an award winning feature, and a […]