What Were Google’s Top Ten UK Ads of 2015?

What Were Google’s Top Ten UK Ads of 2015?

Google has revealed the most popular ads of 2015 according to YouTube. The success of John Lewis and Sainsbury’s Christmas ads saw them shoot to the top of the YouTube Year-End Ads Leaderboard. The UK leaderboard charts the most popular advertising videos of 2015, with the top 10 also including Christmas ads from M&S and […]

Heineken Challenges Shoppers to an Unexpected Haka for Rugby World Cup Tickets

Heineken Challenges Shoppers to an Unexpected Haka for Rugby World Cup Tickets

It’s a seemingly ordinary Sunday as customers go about their weekly shop in Tesco. Only this isn’t a regular lazy Sunday; the Rugby World Cup is approaching and with Heineken involved something is afoot. Continuing from the campaign launch of ‘It’s Your Call’ and local Irish activation ‘The Jonah Machine’, Heineken and creative agency Guns […]

Unilever & Tesco Launch Its Biggest Trial of iBeacons

Unilever & Tesco Launch Its Biggest Trial of iBeacons

Magnum ice cream and Tesco are giving Londoners the chance to get together with friends to share moments of Magnum pleasure, as well as special offers, as part of their biggest trial of iBeacons. Customers who download the ‘Mpulse app’ will receive exclusive coupons for discounted Pink and Black Magnums when they pass by iBeacons […]

Tesco shuns “airbrushed” Christmas ads in festive effort

Tesco shuns “airbrushed” Christmas ads in festive effort

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_4AOpcBwZ4 Tesco is attempting to portray the reality of Christmas for families not the “perfect, airbrushed one” depicted in some ads in its 2013 festive effort. The 90-second ad, created by Wieden+Kennedy, features cinefilm and videocam footage of a family enjoying Christmas from the 1970s to the present day. It is soundtracked by Rod Stewart’s […]

Tesco to scan customers’ faces in ad-targeting scheme

Tesco to scan customers’ faces in ad-targeting scheme

Tesco is set to install hundreds of screens that will scan people’s faces as they queue at tills, which will determine their age and gender, to deliver tailored ads. The scheme will be delivered by Lord Alan Sugar’s company Amscreen, in a five-year deal that will roll out 450 of the “OptimEyes” system in Tesco […]