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19 April 2018
GLOBAL: Effective campaigns increasingly have PR baked into their channel strategies, according to a new WARC report which analyses the most effective campaigns from around the world.
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Anna Hamill, WARC Exclusive, April 2018
McDonald’s, the global quick service restaurant chain, maximised media cost efficiency and managed consumer expectations of delivery time through tailored messages, mapping real-time restaurant data against paid search spends, via a live API.
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Jo Bowman, Event Reports, I-COM Data Creativity Awards, April 2018
Vodafone Italy used machine learning algorithms to interrogate the vast volumes of data generated by its 20 million customers in order to offer personalised propositions to them.
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Jo Bowman, Event Reports, I-COM Data Creativity Awards, April 2018
A combination of programmatic buying and AI-informed content turned around the Shoe-d-vision business in Denmark and Norway, boosting both online and offline sales.
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Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, BRITE 2018, March 2018
Marketers that promote Broadway shows face particular challenges as they seek to attract consumers and drive ticket sales.
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Jo Bowman, Event Reports, I-COM Data Creativity Awards, April 2018
With drivers seeing little to differentiate fuel retailers and being skeptical of loyalty schemes, Shell set out to make its Shell Drivers’ Club more relevant to members.
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Jo Bowman, Event Reports, I-COM Data Creativity Awards 2018
Pizza Hut changed aspects of its digital strategy in India in recognition of the way consumers are looking for information when they want to eat.
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I-COM Data Creativity Awards, Event Reports, Jo Bowman
Outback Steakhouse, the US casual dining chain, drove an extra 250,000 visitors to its branches in three months with a geo-tracking campaign.
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Jo Bowman, Event Reports, I-COM Data Creativity Awards 2018
Boost, a malted drink popular with children in India, successfully reached its target audience with long-form video content delivered via parents’ phones.
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WARC 100, April 2018
This report analyses the world's top effectiveness campaigns, as ranked by the WARC 100, to uncover shared creative, media and measurement strategies.
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Matthew Carlton, Event Reports, YMS18, March 2018
University students offer a distinct grouping and one which brands have a unique opportunity to reach and build a relationship with.
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Matthew Carlton, Event Reports, YMS18, March 2018
Snapchat users tend to be very active on the platform, but unlike other social media platforms, they don’t accrue many followers and much of their interaction is with close friends – so brands need a different strategy.
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17 April 2018
CHICAGO: 19 Crimes, the wine brand, claimed the top prize at the 2018 REGGIE Awards for a campaign that tapped the power of augmented reality (AR) and was created by agencies J.
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17 April 2018
LONDON: Campaigns from Diageo, Microsoft and Procter & Gamble are among the 19 from around the world that have been shortlisted for the WARC Awards’ Effective Use of Brand Purpose category.
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Martin Vogts, Michelle Kiely, WARC Awards, Shortlisted, Effective Use of Brand Purpose, 2018
Tech company Microsoft empowered and inspired young females around the world to pursue a career in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math).
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Oliver Feldwick, WARC Best Practice, April 2018
Explains how digital channels, when used well, can play a fundamental and complementary role in brand building.
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Kate Smither, Charmaine Andrew, WARC Awards, Shortlisted, Effective Use of Brand Purpose, 2018
As part of a series of initiatives celebrating its bicentenary, Australian bank Westpac created a kids' rash vest with CPR instructions to highlight its commitment to future generations.
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Harshvardhan Sahni, WARC Awards, Shortlisted, Effective Use of Brand Purpose, 2018
Digital wallet Paytm used a multimedia approach to bring its services to the poorest in India, in the wake of a ban on two high-denomination currency notes.
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Jennifer Murray, WARC Awards, Shortlisted, Effective Use of Brand Purpose, 2018
An ambitious social mission helped healing skincare brand Vaseline make Vaseline Jelly a powerful force for global good and catapult the brand back to relevance in the US.
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16 April 2018
NEW YORK: Netflix, the video streaming service, has built a reputation for creating award-winning original shows, such as House of Cards, but it has emerged that a full 80% of its viewing in the US actually comes from licensed TV and movie content.
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Talha Bin Hisaam, Nadia Putri Prianti, WARC Awards, Shortlisted, Effective Use of Brand Purpose, 2018
Johnson's Baby, the baby-care brand, used social media and events to differentiate its brand in a crowded Indonesian market.
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Tracy Reilly, Zeida Camacho, WARC Awards, Shortlisted, Effective Use of Brand Purpose, 2018
Prudential, the financial services company, used a video distributed through social media to raise awareness of the issue of unemployment among American veterans.
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Team Triton Communications and Eureka Forbes, WARC Awards, Shortlisted, Effective Use of Brand Purpose, 2018
India's leading water purifier brand, Aquaguard, used a low-budget, digitally-led campaign to encourage people to make a real difference to the lives of others.
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Sam Wise, Vitor Forte, WARC Awards, Shortlisted, Effective Use of Brand Purpose, 2018
German telco Deutsche Telekom used mobile and social channels globally for the launch of the Sea Hero Quest game (mobile and VR) that provided a vast data set to be used in dementia research.
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16 April 2018
SINGAPORE: The English Premier League may be the most popular overseas football league in Asia, but Bundesliga, its German counterpart, intends to compete by growing its brand through the use of data and digital engagement.