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Posts made in October, 2024

Ad of the Day: EE contrasts work and home life with Pet Shop Boys soundtrack

on Oct 16, 2024

By Amy Houston ‘Clocking Off’ shows off the brand’s WiFi offerings and has been created by teams from Saatchi & Saatchi, GroupM, Digitas UK, Boomerang, Posterscope, Prodigious and LeShop. In its latest ad, EE follows a group of people through a typical workday, capturing robotic, routine tasks, like commuting or photocopying, in monochrome. As they leave work and head home, the scenes shift to vibrant color, symbolizing the transition from the mundane to a lively home environment. Once back, everyone faces the chaos of a busy household, where multiple devices compete for bandwidth, but cope with the load due to EE’s new router. Read more Read full story › Source: The Drum...

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The ad archivist: Branded objects will outlive much of today’s digital ephmera

on Oct 15, 2024

By Lee Bofkin From Happy Meal toys to cereal box giveaways, Lee Bofkin of Global Street Art delves deep into his agency’s archives to search out the best branded products. In the world of advertising, the objects a brand touches often tell stories as powerful as the product itself. Happy Meal toys talk to the importance of the youngest customers to McDonald’s. The many packs of Guinness-branded playing cards talk to the history of pubs and games. The list is endless. At Global Street Art, we often find inspiration not just from the murals we paint but from the objects that brands have left behind, Read full story › Source: The Drum...

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Lucky Saint’s Kerttu Inkeroinen on striving to outwit – not outspend – the competition

on Oct 14, 2024

By Tim Healey This beer brand does not have any alcohol nor the biggest budgets. That does not matter to its marketing director, who tells Tim Healey how it intends to realize its mission of becoming the world’s defining alcohol-free brand while facing competition from better-resourced rivals. You were with Coca-Cola, Kimberly-Clark and Union Hand-Roasted Coffee before leading the marketing, e-commerce and innovation charge at challenger alcohol-free beer brand Lucky Saint. How did you discover marketing and end up in your role today? I was born and raised in Finland. I was torn between two directions when considering further education: something artistic – like furniture Read full story › Source: The Drum...

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What grown-up media can learn from Pubity

on Oct 14, 2024

By Gordon Young The team behind the Gen-Z entertainment publisher tell The Drum’s Gordon Young the secrets of creating viral – and valuable – content in the modern media age. If you mention Pubity to some of the big hitters in traditional media, you might get a blank stare. But ask their kids, and you’ll get a nod of recognition. Ask Mark Zuckerberg, and he’ll appreciate it’s an outlet he has to engage – something few media outlets can boast. Kit Chilvers, the 24-year-old co-founder of Pubity, had just returned from scooping an interview with the Meta supremo himself, reinforcing Pubity’s unlikely yet undeniable Read full story › Source: The Drum...

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