The BBC is launching a standalone smartphone and tablet app for its BBC Music brand, helping people listen and watch music clips from its radio and TV output. The app is being released as a free download today for Android and iOS devices, although it will only be available in the UK. Its content will include […]
On the day of Korean SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) in November 2015, a short film was revealed on YouTube. It first shows students in a classroom taking an exam. Suddenly, one by one, the students break into tears because of what is written on the exam paper. The film is part of ‘Healing Exam’ campaign […]
Nestlé KitKat and Team Iconic at J. Walter Thompson unveiled a campaign to celebrate and raise awareness of Nestlé KitKat as the first global confectionery brand sourced from 100% sustainable cocoa. The Nestlé Cocoa Plan aims to improve the lives of cocoa farmers and the quality of their product, through activities that focus on better farming, […]
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 […]
Many brands prefer to upload their videos directly to Facebook, according to data from quintly. YouTube videos only make up roughly one-quarter of all videos posted by brands on the social network. The research from quintly is based on a sample set of more than 1 million Facebook posts analyzed between July and November 2015, […]
Visitors to Burberry’s flagship store on Regent Street can stitch themselves into the luxury brand’s star-studded Christmas ad (above), thanks to a partnership with Google. The Burberry Booth, which is powered by Google technology, uses real-time video stitching to insert people into Burberry’s Christmas ad – a pastiche of Billy Elliot that starred Naomi Campbell, […]
YouTube has launched its standalone app for child-friendly content in the UK and Ireland, aiming to offer parents and carers a source of streaming video that they can be assured is suitable for young children. The YouTube Kids app launched nine months ago in the US, and has since been downloaded by over 10m American […]
Brands’ cost-per-reach is optimised when 24 per cent of a TV advertising budget is allocated to YouTube, said Eileen Naughton, Google’s managing director of UK and Ireland operations, at the Brandcast event on October 13. The Brandcast event, held at the Battersea Evolution and attended by representatives from around 900 companies and agencies, was aimed […]
Clean and Clear has featured Jazz Jennings, a 14-year-old transgender teen, in its ‘See the Real Me’ campaign. Jennings, who is also a popular Youtube star, was declared male at birth, but identified as female shortly after. In an interview with The Huffington Post, she said: “I feel really honored to be part of the […]
Hotly-tipped Cannes Lions contender ‘MTS Internet Baby’ has become India’s most viewed online ad of all time. The Indian market spot for Russian telecoms giant MTS Telecom has been viewed on YouTube over 22 million times in 206 countries with its fresh take on the new generation of ‘digital natives’. To a soundtrack of Diana […]