Day: 1 November 2019

Cannes Lions publishes 2019 Global Creativity Report

Stuart Mitchell

Cannes Lions has announced the release of the 2019 Global Creativity Report, the industry-leading resource for creativity and effectiveness benchmarking. The report has been extended this year, with contributions from partner company WARC, the global marketing and media intelligence service. New editorial sections provide in-depth analysis and insights. Each section dissects one of the nine Festival Tracks and the winning work, focusing on a Grand Prix winner from each Track. The GCR highlights the diversity of companies that picked-up the Grand Prix accolade in 2019, hailing from countries as far…

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DMA publishes new guidance to help increase employment rates of autistic people in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

DMA Talent, part of the Data & Marketing Association, has published new guidance, ‘DMA Talent: Autism Employer Guide’, created using insights from NHS autism specialists, brands/employers, and autistic employees employed across creative, data and marketing roles – the UK’s first. According to the National Autistic Society, there are around 700,000 people on the autism spectrum in the UK and just 16% of autistic adults are in full-time, paid employment. Over three quarters (77%) of those who are unemployed say they want to work. Using expert insights by NHS autism specialists,…

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Charities not confident that funding levels will allow them to meet objectives, says Brewin Dolphin research

Stuart Mitchell

UK charities are not confident in their ability to generate the income needed to meet their charitable objectives, fearing political uncertainty and an economic downturn at a time when they are being asked to do more following a decade of austerity. That is the message from research by charity investment managers Brewin Dolphin and published today in a report Charity Investment: navigating uncertain times. The research was conducted throughout June and July 2019 and is based on the views of 110 charity trustees and senior managers of grant-making and service-providing…

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Schoolchildren code the adverts live on the world famous Piccadilly Lights

Stuart Mitchell

Pupils experimenting with code and technology livestreamed their adverts onto the world famous Piccadilly Lights in London on October 24. Supported by BT, the London school children used a coding app on a tablet to live stream their avatars directly onto the large format Piccadilly screen, changing the words and tinkering with the code in real time as their individual avatars took over the entire big display. The Piccadilly Lights are managed by Ocean Outdoor on behalf of Landsec. Director of Ocean Labs Catherine Morgan said: “This is the first…

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John Lewis & Partners tests blueprint to encourage customers to ‘reduce, reuse and return’ packaging

Stuart Mitchell

John Lewis & Partners has launched a major pilot at its Oxford shop to encourage a ‘reduce, reuse & return’ culture among customers which could provide a blueprint for other shops.  The pilot will test eight ways in which the retailer and its customers can reduce their impact on the planet, potentially saving thousands of tonnes of plastic and packaging from going to landfill.    In a first for a department store, the shop has removed 5p plastic carrier bags to reduce the amount of plastic it produces.  The retailer…

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