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 […]
innocent’s Big Knit campaign turns ten this November, and to celebrate, the behatted smoothies will be found in more retailers than ever before. The smoothie producers have partnered with 12 different customers to pop over a million little woolly hats on innocent smoothie bottles in thousands of stores around the country, with the promise of donating […]
NOW TV and Carling are celebrating their partnership offering free Sky Sports Day Passes on special packs of Carling by challenging football fans round the country to come up with their best football banter in order to win prizes. The people who come up with the best tweets using the hashtag #FootballBanter can win a […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxPZj9x_Dsk You may soon be able to buy coffee for a friend from Starbucks using Twitter, if a beta trial by the coffee giant is successful. ‘Tweet-a-Coffee’ lets you buy a $5 gift card by linking your credit card to your Starbucks account and syncing it to Twitter. Simply tweet “@tweetacoffee” with the Twitter handle […]
Heineken-owned super premium packaged beer Sol is installing permanent branded areas in flagship London bars as part of its ongoing below-the-line activity to celebrate the new ‘Espiritu Libre’ proposition. The initiative, led by agency Space, is designed to bring the new brand positioning to life and generate trial and visibility for the product, targeting its […]
Washington State Wine launched The Recommendeuer, a national marketing campaign featuring an iPad app that pairs wine with a healthy dose of humor and offers an in-depth, interactive regional wine education. Best known for his improvisational performances in “Whose Line is It Anyway?” actor and comedian Greg Proops dons a plaid suit and grabs a […]
The UK’s No 1 Modern cider maker Bulmers and global social media agency We Are Social will launch a Facebook campaign this week, to remind fans about the fresh apples that are used to make Bulmers cider. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReFvD19O1kM The Harvestimator, which launches this week on the Bulmers Facebook page, aims to extend Bulmers’ following on […]
MOMA!, the breakfast brand, has launched its first ever outdoor advertising campaign across seven London train stations in order to target breakfast-shirking commuters. The £50k campaign will run for a period of four weeks from 21 October and is geared toward driving further growth after it increased distribution by 25 per cent and added an […]
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, […]
BBDO has launched an exciting new campaign in partnership with Starbucks China, to encourage people to take time away from their busy lives to engage in real conversations. Starbucks China is seen as aspirational, authentic and international; a place to connect with others in a meaningful way. With this in mind Starbucks paired up with […]