By Georgie Rumble. 3rd Party Cookies have been pivotal for understanding audience behaviours and allowing for effective targeting across multiple online channels. In our recent piece ‘The Last Bite of the Cookie’ we discussed that, with the sun setting on ...
Read More »Cannes cancelled again – but there will be awards this year
In the unlikely event that anyone was planning a trip to the south of France this June, Cannes has announced that the festival has been cancelled for the second year in a row. The event will be “fully digital” instead, ...
Read More »Volvo adds sustainability to safety in likely award-winner from Grey
Chinese-owned car brand Volvo (strange but true) is back with another global safety campaign but this time with an extra element – sustainability. So, in a clever campaign from Grey it’s added in a collapsing iceberg as the biggest (global) ...
Read More »Kellogg’s Coco Pops gets its own digital platform in lively effort from Publicis’ K1
Even kids’ breakfast cereals get their own platform these days, it seems. Publicis Groupe’s Team K1 (for Kellogg’s) has produced ‘Start the Magic’ for Coco-Pops, kicking off with a TV ad, voiced by Matt Lucas, backed by said platform that ...
Read More »Talon initiates digital Out of Home trading reset
Talon is optimising its approach to Digital Out of Home (OOH) trading, putting audience at the heart of the mechanics of delivering audience, price and value. The new approach will allow clients to more easily assess the value of Digital ...
Read More »Marketing agency Komodo launches Runway to turn influencers and celebs into entrepreneurs
Don’t ‘cha love influencers? Some consumers obviously do, much to the benefit of their bank balances. Read recently that Kim Kardashian is now a billionaire – is she an influencer or something else? Big business though with a market estimated ...
Read More »P&G turns to George Floyd issue with ‘widen the screen’
This seems to be P&G’s take on the George Floyd issue, timed, presumably, for the trial of policeman Derek Chauvin. Or the potential aftermath anyway. Inviting us to “widen the screen’ on the way we see things, race especially. By ...
Read More »Lucozade’s new battle cry revealed – “It’s On”
Lucozade has unveiled one of those proliferating new “brand platforms,” courtesy of agency adam&eveDDB, namely “It’s On.” Which might mean anything – or everything – or nothing. The aim being to “bring to life the positive energy that embodies Lucozade ...
Read More »Laurence Green: why the business of advertising is also the business of ideas
It’s hard not to like a book with chapter headings including ‘Richard Latham’s Rug’ and ‘David Beckham’s Sarong’, even if younger readers will barely remember the latter episode, let alone the former reference. Latham wasn’t Beckham’s predecessor at outside right ...
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