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 […]
BSkyB is launching a YouTube channel that will broadcast whole episodes from some of its most high-profile series, as part of the company’s biggest ever push for its entertainment programming. When it launches on Saturday 1 February, the Sky First Episodes channel will host episodes from ‘Moone Boy’ starring Chris O’Dowd, ‘The Tunnel’ (the adapted […]
Developed by Leo Burnett Change, this heartbreaking video makes good use of the skip ad button—commonly seen on YouTube these days—to illustrate the plight that ex-convicts face. The video starts off with an ex-convict persuading a prospective employer to hire him, but once he reveals that he spent some time in prison, the “skip ad” […]
Jamie Oliver challenges EE ambassador Kevin Bacon to a bacon sandwich cooking competition, in the phone company’s latest ad, in partnership with YouTube. Oliver and Bacon compete to create the best bacon sandwich in the latest campaign, which is being launched exclusively on Oliver’s FoodTube YouTube channel. The film has been created by EE’s digital […]
Video-sharing website YouTube has rolled out a new ‘play’ logo to its social media and app platforms, but has retained its existing brand on its desktop site. The new logo, which is being used on YouTube’s Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as apps, features a red play button within a white bubble, as well […]
The McLaren Group, which includes the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula One team, has joined forces with YouTube in a new commercial partnership. “At McLaren we have great stories to tell. Whether it’s the passion and intrigue of Formula One, or how we develop ground breaking new technologies, people are fascinated by what we do. Our […]
