P&G to place focus on ‘value creation’ to ‘win’ with consumers
Major advertisers back BT Sport opening day
Google ordered to make ‘better proposals’ by EU competition chief
Good content is made for sharing
Instant connection
Putting the wow factor into hospitality
Against the grain
Q&A: Jo Bacon, vice-president of marketing, creative and publicity MTV UK
Case Study: Mariachi Doritos Vine videos, #DoritosNameThatTune
In what is traditionally a time for chocolate brands to spend money on marketing, Doritos ran a Vine campaign at Easter with a competition using the hashtag ‘name that tune’. It saw the Marketing Week Engage Award-winning Mariachi Doritos, the brand’s band that launched in the UK in summer 2012, perform clips for fans to guess in return for prizes.
Integration seems a foreign concept to our continental brethren

I mentioned the other week that my company is looking to globalise, which means our dozen regional entities are working towards operating as one global organisation, despite only having a brand logo in common. We even sell different products and services in different countries.
Short-burst video is worth an eyeball but don’t lose sight of the ROI

There are always new kids on the social media block and right now the latest gang in town are the image-led platforms that reach audiences via apps and include Snapchat, Twitter’s Vine and Facebook’s Instagram. What they have in common is that they offer the ability to easily share very short clips of video content or still images – and in Snapchat’s case imagery that only exists for a few seconds before self-deleting. Welcome to the world of instant or short-burst marketing.