98TH OSCARS DOWN NEARLY 2 MILLION VIEWERS, REACHING 17.86 MILLION

17. 3. 2026 | 3 min read Unfortunately, even a performance of the KPop Demon Hunters song “Golden” couldn’t make Oscars ratings go up, up, up.

CANADIAN SUPERSTAR ANDREW PHUNG HELPS VIA RAIL CHALLENGE CAR CONVENIENCE ASSUMPTIONS WITH LONG-FORM STORYTELLING ACROSS CBC’S TV ECOSYSTEM

24. 2. 2026 Campaign objectives VIA Rail, the company operating Canada’s national passenger rail service, combined a new product launch with brand building, using long-form content to tackle misconceptions that tend to block conversion in travel: comfort, ease, and whether rail feels like a realistic alternative to driving for intercity trips. The objectives behind this campaign were to increase consideration, turis, and improve overall impression of VIA Rail.

HOW L’ORÉAL PARIS AND RTL MADE STREET HARASSMENT HARD TO IGNORE

24. 2. 2026 Context Sexual harassment in public spaces is one of the most common forms of gender-based violence in the world. Two figures frame the issue: 80% of women have experienced street harassment, but 85% of people say they lack training on how to intervene. Ad Alliance and L’Oréal created a campaign to respond to this problem with a practical idea: show what intervention looks like in a situation viewers recognise, then point them to an online training called “Stand Up”. A program against street harassment that L’Oréal Paris and Right To Be launched in 2020.

DON’T SKIP THE BREAK: TURNING FRANCE 2’S AD BUMP INTO A LIFE-SAVING REMINDER

20. 2. 2026 Campaign objective FranceTV Publicité (FTP) built the campaign around a single TV-native move: take the short on-air ident that usually marks the start and end of advertising on France 2 (a well known visual “bump”, where the channel’s celebrities seem to be touching the screen to ‘enter’ into the advertising break) and turn it into a moment to pass an important message.

A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL TO BELGIUM’S HOME BREWERS

17. 2. 2026 Belgium is famous for its hundreds of beer varieties, microbreweries, and passionate home brewing community. Grimbergen, a well-respected abbey beer brand owned by Alken Maes Brewery, wanted to shift how consumers perceived them. Rather than being seen as simply a reliable beer choice, the brand wanted to build a deeper emotional connection with consumers. The challenge was to engage beer lovers authentically and strengthen brand love in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium) through genuine innovation rather than traditional advertising. Description Ads & Data Brand Studio developed a campaign concept called “Brouw Met Mij” (Brew With Me), a Dutch phrase that sounds like “Trouw Met Mij” (Marry Me). The creative team of Ads & Data Brand Studio embraced this wordplay fully, framing the entire campaign as a symbolic marriage between the brand and consumers. The brewing process became a courtship, the collaboration a wedding celebration, and the resulting beer the “first offspring” of this collaboration.

WHAT GIVES A SUPER BOWL AD SHELF LIFE IN 2026

10. 2. 2026 | 4 min read For decades, the price tag to advertise during the Super Bowl has been justified by access to a centralized audience. As attention disperses across platforms and star power extends to creators, marketers are rethinking how Super Bowl investments translate into consumer recall.

WHEN BRANDS BECOME CHARACTERS: TRANSFORMING PRODUCT PLACEMENT INTO ENTERTAINMENT

30. 1. 2026 ProSieben and Joyn broke new creative ground with The Masked Singer Germany, transforming traditional product placement into something unprecedented. Seven.One Media worked with Playmobil to create a partnership where the brand did not just sponsor the program or place products within it – instead, the brand became a competing character. The Playmobil Pirate mask sang, performed, and competed alongside celebrities in one of Germany’s most-watched entertainment shows.

WHY SUPER BOWL ADS KEEP GETTING FUNNIER—AND LESS TOUCHING

26. 1. 2026 | 2 min read This year's Super Bowl ad lineup tilts decisively toward star power and humor over heartstring-pulling narratives, continuing a trend that has reshaped the game's advertising tone in recent years.

L’ORÉAL UNCOVERS NEW INSIGHTS FOR EFFECTIVE BEAUTY ADS

3. 9. 2025 | 2 min read L’Oréal worked with Google and research partner Sundogs to analyse 5,000 YouTube ads and found that moving beyond category conventions can drive measurable gains: replacing product-led formats, for example, with richer, character-driven storytelling boosted engagement by 55%.

REPORT: THE ONLY THING BIGGER THAN NFL TV ADS ARE NFL STREAMING ADS

22. 8. 2025 | 7 min read New data from EDO finds that ads during football games on Peacock, Netflix, and Amazon last year were more effective than in-game linear.

HOW ONE VIDEO GAME TOOK ON CULTURE TO TURN LOSS INTO BRAND LOVE

17. 7. 2025 | 4 min read When Clash of Clans – a mobile video game made by Supercell that reportedly has up to 150 million monthly users – lost relevance and some love, the marketing team took creative risks to stage a brand comeback, revealing their secrets at the Cannes Lions Festival.

LABUBU: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

17. 7. 2025 | 3 min read Trends and fads, especially around single products, can make money – but whether they point to something significant about the world (or about how to do business in the world) is much trickier; Labubus are one such fad that invites our consideration – Kantar trend analysis explores the deeper meanings of the toys’ rise. Why Labubus matter Labubu dolls, based on a 2015 picture book called The Monsters, are one of China’s biggest global hits, a cultural phenomenon that has many things going for it: scarcity, celebrity endorsements, social media virality, collectibility, limited collections, and a huge secondary market.

TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT HUMOUR IN ADVERTISING

22. 2. 2025 | 5 min read Humour in advertising is a powerful driver of brand memorability and engagement. WARC’s India Editor Biprorshee Das dives into why humour works, where brands go wrong, and how to get it right – some key takeaways from the recently published What’s working in humorous advertising report.

WHY CELEBRITIES AND THE SUPER BOWL AREN’T LIKELY TO PART WAYS

4. 2. 2025 | 5 min read There was a time when most Super Bowl commercials didn’t feature a celebrity. No Serena Williams. No Payton Manning. No Martha Stewart.

SUPER BOWL: CELEBRITY IS NOT NECESSARY FOR ADVERTISING SUCCESS

12. 3. 2024 | 7 min read Not every Super Bowl ad this year had to have a celebrity or exaggerated humor to be effective and successful, an Ipsos analysis shows.

CELEBRITIES IN ADVERTISING INFLUENCE PEOPLE’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS A BRAND

27. 2. 2024 | 4 min read Celebrity ads grab people's attention more than any other ads. Actors have long been the most popular, according to research by Ressolution Group and Nielsen.

THE MARKETING PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

5. 6. 2023 | 6 min read Celebrity endorsements sell products, even when the star outshines the brand. In a new study, Wharton experts use neuroscience to understand consumer decision-making.

EGTABITE 277: MARY POPPINS RETURNS – RMB AND FLASH’S CREATIVE PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR WALT DISNEY PICTURES

8. 11. 2019 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Does this very long word sound familiar or is it just some gibberish you cannot really pronounce? Mary Poppins was an important part of a carefree childhood era to many, but to some, especially the millennial generation, it is just an archaic fictional character they do not know much about. This week’s egtabite features an innovative format from RMB’s creative unit called FLASH, aiming to reconnect younger audiences with the famous character, right in time for the Mary Poppins Returns movie release. A creative case The in-house Content and Creativity Unit of RMB, a sales house in the south of Belgium, called FLASH, was in charge of the creative format for their client Walt Disney Pictures.