Someone somewhere in some boardroom thought it would be a good advertising strategy to have their brand tweet like a sixteen-year-old, and it ruins my day every time I see it. The reason behind my […]
Life-Changing Coffee Cups: Starbucks’ Transgender-Fronted Advertising Campaign
This article discusses Starbucks new advert “every name’s a story”
Security, Data, and the Future of Elections
‘It began with a dream of a connected world. A space where everyone can share experiences and feel less alone. It wasn’t long before this world become our matchmaker, fact-checker, personal entertainer, photo book , […]
Channel 4 Awards Starbucks’s Trans-Positive Advert
Channel 4 conferred its Diversity in Advertising Award to the new Starbucks #whatsyourname advert. This was first aired on the channel on February 2nd, at 9.10pm. The advert shows as its main character, James, an […]
Social Media Advertising: Revolution or Ambush?
As we enter 2019, we are all well aware of the dominance that social media now has on our lives. Can you even remember a time before Instagram stalking and Twitter trolling? When it first […]
The Best for Britain
Anti-Brexit campaign group Best for Britain has announced plans to conduct a ‘guerrilla marketing’ campaign this month in order to build support in favour of overturning the Leave result from the EU referendum, specifically in […]
Center Parcs vs. the Daily Mail: Brands Taking a Stand
Last week, Center Parcs announced that it had pulled its advertising from the Daily Mail following the newspaper’s decision to publish a column against same-sex parenting. The action was taken after a Center Parcs advertisement […]
University Adverts ‘Banned’ For Misleading Claims
Advertising guidelines for UK universities have been updated following a number of misleading claims made in university adverts concerning rankings, student satisfaction and graduate prospects. The University of Leicester, Falmouth University, University of East Anglia, […]
Get Baked: “We are an inappropriate company”
Local restaurant ‘Get Baked: The Joint’ is facing criticism on social media over what have been labeled ‘misogynistic’ and ‘inappropriate’ advertising slogans. Complaints made by members of LUU’s Feminist Society have centred around the use […]
Comment | Hyde Park ad – Shock advertising should be challenged
If, like me, you didn’t know about Red’s True BBQ until this week, you’ll have seen their latest shock marketing campaign to stir social media. The company have launched an ad mocking vegetarianism using a […]
News | UPDATE: Funding crisis stops LS printing
Following the response to our front page article, LS has decided to clarify issues brought to light through misrepresentation on social media and conflicting statements. LS is in a funding crisis and we value our […]
Art | D&AD: a design for life.
Image courtesy of TASCHEN D&AD is an originally British and now wholly international organisation that rewards commercial creativity, the self-titled Nobel Prize of the creative industries. Their yearly annuals bring together the work of those […]