One of the biggest business headlines of 2020: Salesforce just purchased Slack, a work messaging app, for $27.7 billion. According to Seeking Alpha: "Tech companies have had a phenomenal year and Salesforce is no different. Its shares are up 100% since the lows experienced at the start of March. There are good reasons for this. The increasing digitization of business has contributed to the proliferation of data …
Farmdrop Is Celebrating England’s Hard-Working Farmers
This is a call to action: Enter Food Euphoria. The call comes from Farmdrop, an online grocer in England that delivers fresh organic produce and "everyday groceries" using electric delivery vehicles. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Farmdrop sales have skyrocketed. Consequently, the company has been able to help keep smaller farms and producers up and running after demand collapsed from the restaurant trade during …
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Happy ‘Next’ Holidays from Hotwire
Hotwire wants to help you travel. To do that, the company is looking forward to a time when it is safe to travel. And that time will hopefully arrive sometime next year. To focus on future holiday joy and togetherness, Hotwire's Agency of Record, Fallon, built a “Happy Next Holiday” generator, to create customized messages that can be emailed or sent as a postcard. Creating a custom message will also …
Like Real Campfires, Digital Campfires Are Meant to Illuminate
Lucky Post Helps Craft Launch Video Featuring Animation & Design To Inspire Change There's a new media project in town. New_Public, a media project seeks to build better digital public spaces. Edited by Vice Media and Wall Street Journal alum Marina Garcia-Vasquez, and backed by an editorial board of leaders in technology, media, and design, New_Public is a new hub for individuals imagining and building a more …
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Allegheny Health Network’s ‘True Nurse Stories’ Brought to Life by Doner and Marvel
Recruitment advertising and content marketing are being called on to play an important role in solving the healthcare crisis. April Hansen, executive vice president at San Diego-based Aya Healthcare, said there are now 31,000 openings for travel nurses, more than twice the number being sought when the pandemic surged in the spring. "It is crazy," Hansen said. "It doesn't matter if you are rural or urban...if …
Have You Made Someone Feel Like They Belong Today?
America is struggling through some rough and dark times. Millions of people are out of work, millions have COVID-19, and millions more are working more hours from home than they did at the office. Clearly, it is time to inject some 1960s idealism into the scene and the best way to do this is with song. Here, let some positive vibes and healing feelings come shining through... https://youtu.be/uvHINW3cxBs If …
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The Glenlivet Remains Whisky’s Challenger Brand
Scotland. A rugged nation rising above the northern sea. Home of free thinkers, poets, and revolutionaries. Here's one: In 1824, George Smith established himself as an original thinker by defining the Speyside style of whisky, where The Glenlivet began. Way to go, Mr. Smith! https://youtu.be/lgQtPgDNAQs Time travel on The Man's conveyor belt. There's an idea that's well outside the box. The Lady Doesn't …
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Entertain The Viewer, Or There Will Be No Viewer
In advertising today, there are few new ideas. Instead, there are countless executions of old ideas, but few are as well made as this new two-minute commercial from Burberry. https://youtu.be/QbmW76Cp4s8 This remake of "Singin' in the Rain," has been perfectly updated for our time. Because in 2020, it doesn't just rain, ice bombs pour down from the sky. In this short film, the people who wear Burberry are …
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