Facebook users ‘witness a stabbing’ with Red Cross app

Facebook users ‘witness a stabbing’ with Red Cross app

The British Red Cross has launched an app that lets users witness a knife attack on a bus, using Facebook data to personalise an online film. The charity’s ‘Witness’ app integrates with a viewer’s Facebook account and inserts information from their profile into the film, which features a young man being stabbed on a night […]

Bartle Bogle Hegarty pulls Barclays spot featuring paedophile

Bartle Bogle Hegarty has been forced to withdraw and re-edit its Barclays “thank you” spot after it emerged that one of the extras in the ad was a convicted paedophile. The 90-second ad promotes Barclays sponsorship of the Premier League and features real fans supporting their teams. The Sun on September 1, reported that one […]

MTV launches online prank campaign

MTV launches online prank campaign

MTV UK has launched an online prank campaign that tricks viewers into thinking they are chatting live in a webcam forum to people from the latest series of ‘Catfish’. The second series of ‘Catfish’ begins on 2 September and follows the stories of couples who have fallen in love online without ever meeting each other […]

Jaguar celebrates England’s Ashes victory

Jaguar celebrates England’s Ashes victory

Jaguar ran a tactical print ad on August 26 to celebrate England’s Ashes victory. The work was created by Jaguar’s in-house agency Spark44 and ran across national newspapers including The Times. Jaguar’s media agency is Mindshare. Beneath the headline “we know that feeling”, the ad shows the England cricket squad, including James Anderson and Jonny […]

Audi launches user-generated 3D microsite

Audi launches user-generated 3D microsite

Audi Germany has launched a real-time interactive microsite that turns user-generated content on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram into a 3D visualization of the latest Audi R8. Razorfish Germany and the creative production company Minivegas were asked to create an engaging web experience that would both find out more about Audi’s fans and thank them for […]

Iceland ‘no horsemeat’ ad banned

Iceland ‘no horsemeat’ ad banned

Iceland “denigrated” the Food Safety Authority of Ireland in an ad defending the amount of horsemeat found its burgers but the ad itself was not “misleading”, according to the ad watchdog. The Advertising Standards Authority upheld in part a complaint that an Iceland print ad stating that horsemeat had never been found in their products […]

Peter Crouch signs up for Virgin Media BT Sport push

Peter Crouch stars as a footballer who has inadvertently signed to a pub team in the latest ad for Virgin Media created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty. The ad, which promotes the availability of BT Sport on the Virgin Media platform, uses the strapline: “Make sure you start the season with the right team” and reunites […]