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With Effectiveness Week 2016 starting on Monday, 31st October, Alan Lewis of PHL explores what goes into creating an effective promotion

Achieving effectiveness

With Effectiveness Week 2016 starting on Monday, 31st October, Alan Lewis of PHL explores what goes into creating an effective promotion Effectiveness is described as...

This Halloween, UK cab comparison site minicabit is teaming up with Sony Pictures to give wannabe ghost hunters the chance to win a once in a lifetime chance to ride shotgun in the iconic Ghostbusters car.

minicabit Ghostbusters Ecto-1 promo

This Halloween, UK cab comparison site minicabit is teaming up with Sony Pictures to give wannabe ghost hunters the chance to win a once in a lifetime chance to ride...

Charlotte Tilbury, the luxury cosmetics retailer, has launched what is claimed to be Westfield’s first ever interactive retail installation, to drive excitement and awareness of its new flagship store before it opens in Westfield White City later this month.

Charlotte Tilbury Westfield ‘magic mirrors’

Charlotte Tilbury, the luxury cosmetics retailer, has launched what is claimed to be Westfield’s first ever interactive retail installation, to drive excitement and...

Red Bull is launching a new free social media tool called Shout/out, which incorporates speed-reading techniques to turn users’ text into ‘flash card’ messages, removing the constraints imposed by, for example, Twitter’s 140-word character limit.

Red Bull Shout/out debut

Red Bull is launching a new free social media tool called Shout/out, which incorporates speed-reading techniques to turn users’ text into ‘flash card’ messages,...

Up at The O2 is launching its Autumn 2016 campaign using podcasting platform Acast in a deal brokered by the7stars.

Dan Snow podcast link for O2 climb

Up at The O2 is launching its Autumn 2016 campaign using podcasting platform Acast in a deal brokered by the7stars, with a podcast from TV historian Dan Snow. Up at The...

Bosch Athlet TomTom Spark Promotion

Household appliances company Bosch is running a promotion offering a free TomTom Spark GPS fitness watch, worth £149.99, when they purchase a Bosch Athlet vacuum...

Chocolate brand Elizabeth Shaw is marking the clocks going back this weekend with a new marketing campaign, ‘Thoughtful Gestures’, which will be asking Britons to use the ‘extra hour’ they get to show appreciation to someone else.

Elizabeth Shaw ‘Thoughtful Gestures’

Chocolate brand Elizabeth Shaw is marking the clocks going back this weekend in the UK with a new marketing campaign, ‘Thoughtful Gestures’, which will be asking...

Strongbow, the UK’s leading cider brand from HEINEKEN, is giving drinkers a fright with its on-trade consumer activation ‘The Haunted’ this Halloween. Worth more than £300m in sales in 2015, Halloween is now the second biggest night in the on-trade calendar after New Year’s Eve. In order to help publicans maximise this important occasion and drive growth in sales, 11,000 Strongbow POS kits featuring a guaranteed instant-win consumer competition are being distributed.

Strongbow haunting Halloween competition

Strongbow, the UK’s leading cider brand from Heineken, is giving drinkers a fright with its on-trade consumer activation ‘The Haunted’ this Halloween. Worth more...

Love2shop Business Services, the corporate division of Park Group plc, has acquired brand engagement specialists Fisher Moy International Limited in an all-cash deal for an undisclosed sum. FMI will remain based in Chilton, Buckinghamshire and will initially continue to operate under the existing brand to spearhead Love2shop’s engagement services expansion and act as a local base for clients in London and the Thames Valley.

Love2shop buys FMI

Love2shop Business Services, the corporate division of Park Group plc, has acquired brand engagement specialists Fisher Moy International Limited in an all-cash deal for...

There are nearly two trillion packs manufactured around the world every year; even if we assume that only 1% of them are connected to the IoT, then we are talking about 20 billion packs in the network.

Winning with the Internet of Packs

The Internet of Things is set to become a whole lot bigger as brand owners wake up to the possibilities offered by connected packaging, explains Jonathan Jackson of...