Co-op joins Apple, Waitrose, Maybelline in microdrama move

The microdrama business is expected to be worth $256bn by 2030, and while China still makes up 80% of the market, other countries are catching on fast. The short-form, soap-opera-style social media content has its origins in entertainment, but Waitrose caught on early to the marketing potential with with Wonderhood’s “Sweet Suspicions” Christmas campaign, and …

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World Cup’s commercial clout not in doubt. Ask Coca-Cola and Unilever

We’ve had a global rebrand, the controversial World Cup hydration breaks, and now a hyperlocal campaign based in Wakefield, Yorkshire – all from Coca-Cola in the last month or so. The business has just posted a Q2 7% sales uplift to $13 billion, boosted by its FIFA partnership. This included the Powerade hydration breaks, which …

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BMW turns tables on corners

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Haven’t seen anything like this for a while but BMW in the UAE is going all noir with a courtroom drama about corners, a nuisance when you’re driving a sporty ‘M’ in those parts it seems. From Serviceplan Middle East for BMW importer AGMC, directed by Nalle Sjöblad through DejaVu Productions. Will it be a …

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George Parker: is the ad business looking up?

I just finished re-watching the movie… “Don’t Look Up!” It is a funny, accurate and excruciating examination of the warped priorities and agendas of the people who have the largest control over our lives… i.e. Politicians. Those douchenozzles who invariably care more about how events, fads, fashions and attitudinal changes will impact their polling numbers …

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