Video viral of the week: Heineken’s “Worlds Apart” film gets 13m views in a month
Heineken latest video ad has caused a buzz on sicial media, touted as the ‘ad Pepsi wishes it made’, getting 13 million YouTube videos in a little over a month. Unlike Pepsi’s neutral approach, the beer-maker used its latest video ad to tackle some...Burger King upsets Belgian royals with “choose your king” stunt
Burger King has upset some real life royalty this week, when an online promotion in Belgium invited people to choose between the country’s King Philippe and the company’s mascot. Belgium’s royal family has contacted the fast food chain Burger King...Walkers pulls interactive selfie ad after Twitter sabotage
Walkers Crisps has pulled an interactive video ad after it allowed the faces of mass murderers and child abusers submitted by internet pranksters. The faces of Rolf Harris, Fred West and Jimmy Savile and were inadvertently featured in an animation voiced by Gary...Video viral of the week: Santander VR wedding stunt
Santander UK has helped a customer propose to his girlfriend with the help of virtual reality and Olympic gold medalist Jessica Ennis-Hill. A viral film, entitled ‘Love Virtually,’ captured the tear-jerking moment when Robin King produced a diamond ring,...Online video trends: Adverts have biggest influence on what consumers watch
Adverts have the biggest influence on what we watch, with more than half of Brits (56%) saying it has the most influence on their viewing decisions, according to new research. To mark Streaming Day on Saturday 20th May, Roku reveals key insights into the nation’s...#IsItokforGuys: Lynx search ads tackle male stereotypes
Unilever’s Lynx is continuing to break away from its “lad” labelling with a bold new ad campaign combating what it’s now calling “toxic masculinity” and its debilitating effects on young men. The new work is themed “Is It Ok For Guys?” and is part of Axe’s “Find...Kevin Costner catches French high speed rail in new TGV ad
This new viral video for the French High Speed Train Service TGV pokes fun at long movies (now that travel between Paris and Bordeaux takes just 2 hours), with Kevin Costner on board. The ad follows the firm’s Client Relationship Manager mission to Hollywood to...McDonald’s pulls controversial video ad about child bereavement
McDonald’s has withdrawn a controversial video ad after a huge social media backlash, with one charity accusing it of exploiting child bereavement. The advert went live on May 12 across social media and on UK TV, depicting a boy talking with his mother about his...Playing politics with big data: What can marketers learn from Trump and Brexit?
What happens when you mix big data and politics? An explosive article in last weekend’s Guardian investigated the links between Brexit, Trump and a data mining firm called Cambridge Analytica. But did it uncover a shady political coup or the logical (and legal) next...Viral marketing trends: Just 1% of social video goes viral
Only 1.2% of social video on Facebook goes viral, representing over 1 million views), according to new research. The research comes from Wochit, a social video creation platform, who analysed more than 4,000 videos from over 100 publishers around the world during a...#NuggsforCarter: Wendy’s rewards teen for record-breaking tweet
One teen’s mission for a year’s supply of free chicken nuggets has become Twitter’s most retweeted post of all time. Carter Wilkerson’s post asking US chain Wendy’s how many retweets he needed for a year’s supply of nuggets has now been...Digital video ads: Brands demand more options
Advertisers, agencies and publishers are looking for options for delivering brand advertising campaigns via digital video ad formats, the first IAB Europe Video Ad Formats survey reveals. Based on a survey of approximately 700 advertisers, agencies and publishers from...Interview with an influencer: Danny MacAskill on the process of working with major brands
Influencer marketing. It’s all anyone can talk about in 2017 – how brands can make the most of influencers to help promote its offering. Red Bull interviewed famous trials cyclist and influencer Danny MacAskill to look at it from the influencers’ lens, to understand what it takes in his point of view, what his expectations are and how the process itself works.
