A mock Penguin campaign to encourage reading among young offenders and a Nike ad promoting equality in sports are among the big winners at D&AD’s 2020 New Blood Awards, which celebrates the next generation of creative talent since 1980.

Demand for buying art online continues to soar, as online art marketplace, Artfinder, records its best sales quarter in its seven year history, with 120% sales growth on 2019.

The UK’s Royal Air Force has implemented Imagen’s content management platform to accelerate its marketing efforts, and to better communicate as an organisation in the wake of Covid-19.

How do you make a big brand advert during lockdown? Jon Stroud, creative director, Jist Studios, helped create a campaign for a leading breakfast brand from scratch in the midst of the pandemic, mixing techniques with live plates, animation, user-generated content, GoPros, phone footage and the odd professional shoot with a skeleton crew. Here, he … [Read more…]

Eating and drinking out in bars and restaurants is the top activity adults are looking forward to resuming post-lockdown, but only a third plan to do so as caution remains, according to new research.

Verizon Media has launched a full-screen native ad format “Brand Story” that allows advertisers to re-use their existing social media ‘stories’ creative assets and deliver their content across the Verizon Media Ad Platform.

Full service ad agency Starcom has expanded its partnership with global leader in digital ad verification, Integral Ad Science (IAS), to improve the measurement of paid social campaigns.

Millennials have become online “super buyers” during the COVID-19 lockdown and are receiving an average of 50 per cent more deliveries every week than the over-55 “baby boomer” generation, a new survey of 2,000 consumers has revealed.

Product review provider Bazaarvoice has bought social commerce solution Curalate to add more visual tools to its network of reviews.

Global Media Platform Teads conducted a global study, reviewing how creatives that are adapted to drive greater Attention in digital environments, deliver greater in-market results for brands. Roughly 85% of creatives that Teads receives are still TVCs that are not originally designed to be flighted in a digital environment. Teads has, therefore, always recommended that … [Read more…]