#Ashtags
To mark the arrival of Lent, priests on twitter and Instagram have posted ashtags – with photos of an ashen cross on their foreheads in keeping with the Christian practice on Ash Wednesday. Not everyone is keen though…
The 10 most hated and loved brands in Britain
Ad Agency Isobel surveyed 1500 British adults to find both the ‘most loved’ and ‘hated’ brands in Britain – check out the results here.
Historically ‘accurate’ Disney princesses
Buzzfeed has created a video that shows what Disney Princesses would look like if they were historically accurate. Portrayed by real life models, the video highlights the clothes they would have worn as well as their status within the context of the age.
Worldwide galleries and digital art
In the below film, produced by Dezeen for the British Council, leading artists and curators discuss the increasing significance of digital art and the new opportunities open to artists working ‘in a digital age’, seeking to challenge the lack of museums and galleries that focus on it as a serious subject matter.
YoutubeKids App
Youtube launches a Kids app – the first google product build with children in mind. The app claims to make it safer and easier for children to find videos on topics they want to explore with family focused content and of course, all important parental controls.
Google Glass Dating
The guardian soulmates section is running a series of digital dates called Watch Me Date. Each week they chose two different people, give them two pairs of google glass and send them on a date. Conveniently of course, the whole thing is filmed. Check them out here!
Paddy Power is the ASA’s most complained about ad in 2014
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has published a list of 2014’s most complained about adverts, in a list which hosts the watchdog’s three most controversial adverts ever. On the ban, an ASA spokesperson said: “The ASA banned this national press ad that offered incentives to bet on the outcome of Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial. The ad caused serious offence by trivialising the issues surrounding a murder trial, the death of a woman and disa
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