With a new API and fully operational ad business, marketers have excitedly been testing different types of advertising opportunities on Instagram. As of June 2015, Adweek reported that Instagram’s commitment to content quality and millennial audience have attracted more than 475 ad campaigns with brands such as The Gap, Michael Kors, and Taco Bell. As
What are people willing to do for a free flight upgrade? If Virgin Atlantic’s new social media campaign is any indication, the answer is a mix of weird, wonderful, and thoughtful offers. Inspired by customers’ frequent attempts at getting a free upgrade, the airline has launched the #BestRequest campaign in which customers who have a
Sometimes a brand creates content so compelling that it spans far beyond its digital and social media channels. Such is the case with the popular Lowe’s “Fix In Six” Vine campaign. Equal parts unique and useful, the campaign’s success is now bringing it to an unlikely place: the windows of the company’s new Chelsea location
Sometimes you have to borrow from the past to drive innovation. Such was the case with Forever 21’s innovative new Thread Screen campaign, which takes an unlikely object—spools of thread—and re-imagines them in a futuristic way. True to its name, the Thread Screen was developed by Breakfast NY for Forever 21 and uses 6,400 mechanical
On July 17th, companies small and large came together to celebrate what’s become a mainstay in our digital communications: the emoji. Developed between 1998 and 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita, emojis were first added to smartphones in 2001 and quickly rose in popularity due to their ability to communicate items and emotions in a simple, cartoon-like