Last week the Manning Gottlieb team shared their hidden talents with the rest of the company. Throughout the day, we were treated to lessons from the Manning Gottliebers including Japanese and Spanish, cake decorating, jewellery making, hair styling, and even urban golf! Huge thanks to our amazing teachers Yina, Amy O’Malley, Tom Cocker, Sneha Nagesh, [...]

This Week in Digital: w/c April 29th What’s happened this week: • AT&T released a connected home security product, illustrating how Digital technologies are allowing brands to extend into previously unrelated sectors. • New TV formats were announced that cross traditional media boundaries; o @SummerBreak is a new reality show that will air entirely across [...]

Our very own (potentially mad) Nick Bateman is running the London Marathon this Sunday, and today the team were treated to a cake trolley, raising some extra money for his chosen charity, Prostate Cancer UK. Let’s get behind Nick on his sixth, yes sixth, marathon and help him reach his fundraising target. To support Nick [...]

The Guardian Changing Media Summit is one of the most important events in the UK conference calendar. For those of us in agency land it provides a wider perspective on the challenges and opportunities that the media sector face and how our relationship with them is changing. It is increasingly clear that everyone is beginning [...]

This Week in Digital: w/c March 25th What’s happened this week: • Google launched ‘Keep’ a note taking competitor to the Digital Evernote and the analogue Post-it note. • Apple bought indoor GPS company WifiSlam for USD 20m, potentially driving more sophisticated mapping features in stores and offices. • Google announced they are to allow [...]

Have you ever been ambushed by half-naked men, or Can Can girls on a test-drive? Today Manning Gottlieb OMD launch a viral ad for Renault Clio, creating an ‘unforgettable’ experience of the new Renault Clio to unsuspecting test-drivers. The test drivers are invited by the car salesman to try the fictitious VaVaVoom button on the [...]

Last week London played host to the inaugural Advertising Week Europe, bringing the industry A-List together in one place, fittingly one of British excellence, BAFTA. We were very excited when our Social Media Director, Pete Durant, was invited to join the panel “How to Engage With Consumers in a Multi-Platform World”, and not just because [...]

  This Week in Digital: w/c March 18th           What’s happened this week: Samsung released the Galaxy S4 their flagship smartphone including touch-less gestures, eye tracking and real time health monitoring. Dropbox bought hot email service ‘mailbox’ for USD 100m possibly heralding a move into cloud based mail services. Google have re-launched their ‘Think Insights’ [...]

This Week in Digital: w/c March 4th          What’s happened this week: Facebook confirmed the purchase of the Atlas advertising technology stack from Microsoft, it may allow for many new capabilities for advertisers to utilise social data. Mobile World Congressconcluded. Points of interest included; New operating systems for Mobile Initiatives to enable cars with Mobile [...]

  This Week in Digital: w/c February 25th.           What’s happened this week: Mobile World Congress has begun in Barcelona with plenty of new mobile devices blurring the boundary between smartphone and tablet, as well as a push in to ultra-low cost devices, mass market home media streamers, a new operating system with FirefoxOS [...]