Great Scott! For one day only, Pepsi Max has partnered with Uber to give London-based ‘Future Day’ fans the ride of their lives in a DeLorean– to celebrate the 30th anniversary of cult hit Back To The Future II. In Back To The Future II, Marty McFly travels to the future – October 21st 2015 […]
Bicester Village, the designer outlet shopping centre, is launching a humourous new online campaign sending up impossibly perfect menswear advertising and style films. The comical online film, created by Just So, features an immaculately groomed individual who describes himself as “a sculptor, a filmmaker and more”. We meet him in his “enormous studio” as he […]
UK advertising spending grew 5.8 per cent year-on-year to reach a record high of £9.42bn in the first half of 2015, with mobile growth exploding to break the billion pound barrier for the first time, according to new data from the Advertising Association/Warc. Digital channels continue to be the primary driver of growth, with internet […]
Airbnb’s new “Put Your Space to Work” campaign will be running for 6 weeks with a combination of digital, mobile, print and out of home billboards. The creatives feature six real hosts with real passions in each of its markets. Airbnb will also be running three videos per market on social media starting October – […]
Royal Mail has issued a specially designed set of stamps to celebrate the Star Wars saga. The stamps will include a special set of 18 being released October 20 ahead of the release of the new entry into the series; Star Wars: The Force Awakens and incudes classic characters such as Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, […]
Channel 5 has marked the launch of its new real life series The Gift of Life with an arresting marketing campaign designed to highlight the plight of the 7000 people in the UK who are currently waiting for an organ transplant. A group of actors, dressed as hospital patients in surgical gowns and pushing saline […]
Savoury snack brand Jacob’s has announced the appointment of Grey London as their new creative agency, following a pitch process earlier in 2015. The agency has already started working with the brand ahead of launching a new Jacob’s Masterbrand campaign in 2016. The appointment means that Grey London will work across both the sweet and […]
Looking ahead to 2016, Mintel’s Senior Trends Consultant Richard Cope discusses the five key UK consumer trends set to impact the market, including implications for both consumers and brands in the year ahead. My Mind’s Eye Virtual and augmented reality technologies enter our homes and businesses to entertain, trial and train. “A host of virtual […]
M&C Saatchi has created an intense advertisement for NatWest, breaking new boundaries for rugby and hoping to entice more people into the sport, in a year where it is taking centre stage in Britain. The film targets rugby fans and people who are yet to truly engage with the sport. Entitled ‘The Flying Winger’, the […]
Zaid Al-Zaidy, CEO of advertising agency McCann London is taking the latest Apprentice casualty to task on BBC Two’s The Apprentice: You’re Fired. Together with host Jack Dee, the show’s regular panelist Romesh Ranganathan and journalist Grace Dent, Zaid will critique this week’s teams and their attempt to create an ad campaign for a new […]