HMV is revamping its online music strategy as it launches a new digital music store and smartphone app that aims to convince shoppers of the worth of owning music rather than streaming it as it continues its recovery after being bought out of administration earlier this year. The app, which is available for iPhone and […]
Nike has redesigned the look and capabilities of its FuelBand fitness tracker as part of a flurry of tech-based initiatives being prepped to capture more consumer data and secure its share of the nascent wearable tech arena. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCOBzjsJyEY The FuelBand SE is aesthetically similar to its predecessor, but will come in Pink, Green and Orange […]
Ikea has unveiled a new integrated brand campaign for the UK and Ireland encouraging adults and children to spend time together. The campaign, which explores the insight that children want to spend more time with their parents, whether it’s being at home doing something like baking or just relaxing, is set to launch on Monday […]
The advertising watchdog has banned a TV ad for Beats Pill speakers featuring the singer Robin Thicke from being broadcast before 7.30pm following almost 100 complaints from viewers who believed the spot was “offensive” and “sexist”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbtewxfcptw The spot features Thicke performing his single ’Blurred Lines’ alongside three female models in hot pants and see-through […]
Levi’s has launched an out-of-home (OOH) campaign in East London as part of its #MakeOurMark project. The #MakeOurMark activity spans outdoor, social media and interactive events. It has aimed to encourage up-and-coming creative talent from across the UK to contribute words, images and videos through Twitter, using the hashtags #MakeOurMark and #Moves. The latest effort […]
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 […]
Space has been working with Thorpe Park – home to some of the world’s finest coasters – to help bring the its annual Halloween event Fright Nights to life through refreshed branding and communications creative. Thorpe Park guests will experience a horror movie takeover this Halloween as the Park and leading global film producer Lionsgate UK present […]
Tennis star Andy Murray has appointed Aesop to create a brand identity for him and his recently-formed management company, 77, following an eight-way pitch. The agency has been tasked with creating two identities; one for Murray, which will appear on his sportswear, and one for 77 which will appear on company collateral and touch points. […]
E-cigarette brand Nicolites has launched a month-long ‘Swaptober’ advertising campaign designed to encourage smokers to swap tobacco for e-cigs. The campaign cost just under £500,000 and will feature on more than 1,000 billboards throughout the UK as well as advertising space at London’s Euston train station and Waterloo Station. Nikhil Nathwani, managing director, said: “Our […]
As the British National Health Service’s anti-smoking month, “Stoptober”, coincided with Halloween, HealthExpress decided to get spooky with its anti-smoking campaign. To reach out to the 10 million smokers in the UK, actors donned terrifying masks that show the detrimental effects of smoking and the physical damage smokers do to themselves if they continued to […]