Tug wins Digiday’s Best Social Good Campaign with WWF
Tug’s Social & Content team brought home an award last night at the Digiday Marketing and Advertising Awards Europe! We’re proud winners of the Best Social Good Campaign 2019, for our amazing work for WWF’s #StopPlasticPollution campaign which ran February – March 2019. The campaign…
When social media gets political
The battle for no.10 is officially on. It is all kicking off as Boris prepares to take on Jeremy Corbyn for the Prime Minister title race. Corbyn is refusing to state his position on Brexit (we would all rather trim our Nanna’s toenails than discuss…
5 things my design degree didn’t prepare me for
The prospect of the ‘real world’ and getting a ‘real job’ and being told about becoming a ‘real adult’ was something that I was always told about growing up in education, but was never something I thought I would have to actually act upon. Funnily…
Facebook F8 Conference Round-Up
F8 may be done and dusted, but the announcements made during the conference may mean some big changes to marketers moving forward. ‘Today we’re going to build a privacy-focused social platform.’ These were Zuckerberg’s first words to address the conference. Facebook wants everyone to know…
You take your first bite with your eyes: How Instagram has changed the way we eat
This week I attended the Eater Talks session at the Ace Hotel on how Instagram has changed the way we look at dining experiences. Led by the Eater Editor, Adam Coghlan the panel was made up of food writers George Reynolds and Felicity Spector and…
Instagram Sponsored Stories Polls – the votes are in
Ad content is becoming more and more interactive on social media channels. First there were playable ads on Facebook, and now Instagram Stories can feature polls within sponsored posts. This has been introduced with the aim of increasing brand engagement within the huge 500m+ Instagram…
What the new CMA guidelines for influencers mean for brands
On 23rd January the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced a set of guidelines for influencers. The guidance centres around transparency in influencer marketing – an issue that the industry has been plagued by for some time. The CMA guidelines set out what influencers need…
What the dickery dock is TikTok?
TikTok is a relatively new player on the social media scene, and it’s hugely popular with Generation Z.
Best of 2018 – the Social and Content edit
2018 has been a year of sharing, stories and scandals for social media. This year social channels have expanded their offering to feature shopping, TV, video, stories, 3D images, filters, live streams and so many more features, designed to enable users to share their lives…
Demonic social media
When people use the term “dark social” I tend to think of a demonic content stream scarring the minds of innocent people all over the world! What is dark social? You’ll be pleased to know, this is not the meaning of dark social. What dark…