The $1bn acquisition of Instagram by Facebook in 2012 kick-started a gradual shift from a photo-sharing app to an effective sales and marketing tool for startups and scaleups. Instagram currently has more active users than all other social media channels, bar Facebook. And, with 2.89 billion monthly active users at the time of writing, that’s a...
Your strategy is a building project. Like any construction you're developing an idea and it needs to built on solid foundations (or insights). If the foundations are rotten then your strategy will topple. So what are the ins and out of a creative strategy?...
Today we go live across the UK with Tide’s latest TVC commercial “Find your voice”. We’ve spent the past few months working very closely with the marketing team at Tide to build upon lasts years campaign “Rise entrepreneur” treating it as a sequel. ...
Advertising agencies have undergone a monumental shift in the past year. The brands that they work with and the creative that they produce has been fundamentally impacted by rapidly moving cultural changes and a shift in the way we consume media content. Creative minds have had to adapt; not only in the way they collectively...
In 2003, four Dutch academics led a study into the potential of financial gain from imitating someone else’s behaviour. They hypothesised that if a waitress relayed their customers order back to them, that their tip size would increase. Their theory was based on the connection between Mimicry and ‘Prosocial Behaviour’; i.e. if we mimic someone...
As part of an omnichannel marketing strategy, digital video can be highly effective in driving growth. In a combined study between Google and Magid entitled “The Role of Digital Video in People’s Lives” it was noted that a whopping 90% of shoppers surveyed had discovered new products or brands on YouTube....