Diageo: ‘Guinness Jonathan Ross Tie-up Missed The Mark’

Diageo: ‘Guinness Jonathan Ross Tie-up Missed The Mark’

Diageo has admitted a recent Guinness ad campaign, which saw it take over all three ad breaks during Saturday night’s (26 October) Jonathan Ross Show, failed to live up to the brand’s legacy of iconic marketing after it was criticised by viewers for being “painful” and “contrived”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39fvn6O0JA#t=51 The media buy, a first for the […]

Sydney’s Workshop Aims For Australia’s Largest Soft Drink Launch For Lipton

Sydney’s Workshop Aims For Australia’s Largest Soft Drink Launch For Lipton

Sydney creative agency Workshop has unveiled what it describes as one of Unilever Australia‘s largest ever soft drink launches. Its campaign for Lipton Ice Tea Sparkling is aimed at challenging the biggest brands in the category. “As we were launching a new product we wanted to create something that would stand out in a category […]

Biscuit Brand ‘Tim Tam’ Goes Tech For Fan Poll

Biscuit Brand ‘Tim Tam’ Goes Tech For Fan Poll

Legendary biscuit brand Tim Tam has launched a campaign for its new Chocolicious Bites with a creative designed by DDB and executed by MEC and Social Ally. It focuses on an interactive consumer poll utilising real-time technology, offering fans a year’s supply of Tim Tams. The campaign launches online via Facebook. “Real-time communications is the […]

Smirnoff Double Black “Arrive Boldly”

Smirnoff Double Black “Arrive Boldly”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKQZVYqW7mo Australia’s number one vodka brand1 launches integrated activity from 26 October Diageo Australia has unveiled an integrated campaign to mark the bold arrival of its new premium full strength bottle spirit (FSBS), Smirnoff Double Black vodka. Unlike any other offering in the category, this double freeze filtered vodka with the quality of Smirnoff No.21 […]

Sainsbury’s Censured Over Claims Consumers Need Not Shop Around

Sainsbury’s Censured Over Claims Consumers Need Not Shop Around

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a TV ad for Sainsbury’s after ruling it misleadingly told consumers they need not shop around at Tesco and Asda for the best branded deals. The ad, promoting Sainsbury’s Brand Match money-back guarantee, depicted customers shopping, with the TV screen split into three and a section each representing Sainsbury’s, […]

OREO Dunk Into Ireland

OREO Dunk Into Ireland

Mondelez have launched their first outdoor campaign in Ireland for OREO, the “Dublin Twist”. Created by Draftfcb London, the campaign will appear across Dublin. This great opportunity for OREO is the result of PHD winning €150,000 of media space in JC Decaux’s “Fame – The Agency Edition” competition. Following on from the Cannes Lions Cyber […]

Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere Stars in Weetabix Campaign

Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere Stars in Weetabix Campaign

Weetabix has launched a campaign starring Jack Wilshere, the Arsenal and England footballer, Rebecca Adlington, the double Olympic gold medallist swimmer, and Jason Kenny, the triple Olympic gold medal-winning track cyclist. The campaign will include three online documentaries featuring Wilshere, Adlington and Kenny’s mothers talking about how important eating healthily was when the sports stars […]

Chocolate vs. Iron For Kellogg’s Krave

Chocolate vs. Iron For Kellogg’s Krave

Household favourite cereal brand Kellogg’s Krave have released the latest video in their Time 2 Melt campaign. ‘Iron’ is the latest instalment in the online branded content series created by global digital marketing agency Isobar and shot and produced by boutique production and post-production company Motion Picture House. In the series of videos, which began […]

Two Thirds of Australians Say Alcohol Ads Should be Banned From Sport

Two Thirds of Australians Say Alcohol Ads Should be Banned From Sport

A potentially seismic change in advertising around sports may be heralded after a report commissioned by the Salvation Army found that more than two thirds of Australians want to ban alcohol advertising in sport. 67.2 percent of over 1000 polled said alcohol sponsorship should be phased out. The survey was undertaken as part of the […]