New Audi ad pits man against machine

New Audi ad pits man against machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lInd8GimJJc A new advert for the Audi RS 6 Avant sees the car involved in a paintball battle dubbed ‘The Duel – Man vs Machine’. The video, produced by viral marketing specialists Rubber Republic, sees racing driver and James Bond stuntman Ben Collins – who also served as The Stig on Top Gear until 2010 […]

JWT NY’s Embarrassing Moments for Kleenex

JWT NY’s Embarrassing Moments for Kleenex

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIOMeBqgiIQ JWT New York has launched a new TV spot for Kleenex that highlights the unfortunate consequences of not having a Kleenex tissue on hand. Without a Kleenex, unequipped victims are forced into shameful behaviour – like wiping their hands on the family dog to shaking their boss’s hand after sneezing. The situations that unfold […]

Ensequence To Roll Out National Platform For Interactive TV Advertising

Ensequence To Roll Out National Platform For Interactive TV Advertising

Interactive advertising service company Ensequence will roll out an ambitious broad-reaching national platform for interactive TV advertising. AdConneqt+ enables programmers to offer an interactive upgrade to their 30-second ad inventory, where TV viewers can respond to national advertisers’ 30-second spots after a few clicks of the remote control. Interactive advertising professionals say that advanced advertising […]

Bupa launches multiplatform ad campaign from WCRS

Bupa launches multiplatform ad campaign from WCRS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hlpxnI8SM Bupa, the healthcare insurer, has launched a new ad campaign across TV, print, OOH and digital. Aiming to highlight its services, the ‘Our focus is your health’ campaign features children painting a picture of their ideal healthcare company. Their pictures are used to illustrate Bupa’s wider offering including its 24/7 GP healthline and broader […]

IKEA’s Ad Shows How Its Furniture Accommodates Children

IKEA’s Ad Shows How Its Furniture Accommodates Children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EK5yeWxtYQ Created by the Auge Headquarter, in Milan, Italy, this video ad shows how IKEA’s furniture can be adjusted to accommodate a young boy. This cheerful video shows the boy doing all he can to become taller so that he can reach a box on a shelf—he succeeds, only because his grandfather has adjusted its […]

Sky & Pixar Team Up for ‘Toy Story of Terror’

Sky & Pixar Team Up for ‘Toy Story of Terror’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vJcd2OPkDE Sky has teamed up with Disney Pixar to create a brand new TV ad featuring characters from the popular Disney Pixar’s Toy Story movie franchise to promote its superfast fibre broadband service and celebrate the arrival of the all-new 30-minute Toy Story OF TERROR! TV special, which will premiere in the UK & Ireland […]

TV Ad Spend Up in the US, National Radio Also Rises

TV Ad Spend Up in the US, National Radio Also Rises

Thanks to higher TV spending, total U.S. advertising expenditures perked up some in the second quarter from the same period a year ago. Second quarter was up 3.5% to finish the period at $35.8 billion, with total spending over the last six month 2% higher, getting to $68.9 billion. The second quarter of a year […]

Unilever’s Crowd-Sourced Peperami Campaign

Unilever has teamed up with crowd-sourced ideas platform Idea Bounty to generate a new TV and print campaign for its FMCG brand Peperami. In order to re-launch the Peperami brand mascot ‘the animal’, the first time the mascot will be seen on TV screens since 2012, Unilever is offering a $10,000 prize for the best […]

Grabyo Studio helps Sky Sports share real-time clips of transfer deadline day

Grabyo Studio helps Sky Sports share real-time clips of transfer deadline day

Sky Sports is working with Grabyo – the real-time TV clip-sharing platform integrated with Twitter – as part of its coverage of football transfer deadline day, taking place today, 2 September. Grabyo enables broadcasters to grab, edit and share TV clips in real-time across social media and their own websites allowing brands like Sky Sports […]