Back to the art of storytelling
We were asked by our client, Aberdeen Standard Investments, to produce a series of four short, punchy, engaging videos for a campaign. We worked through various options but ultimately chose to use a strong storytelling framework across each of the videos. We sent in one of our journalist colleagues who not only interviewed the subject
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Bad news for sales & marketing professionals
Just when you thought it couldn’t get much more difficult to get attention online, a new study reveals that global attention spans are narrowing. The research, conducted by the Technical University of Denmark, finds that due to the amount of information that is presented to the public, people have more to focus on, and
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Giving it the full “Dragon’s Den” treatment
We like to help clients to differentiate their content wherever possible, as this is one of the ways in which you are more likely to get higher levels of attention than your competitors. We were given the challenge of finding a venue which was “something different” for a round table discussion being conducted by Aberdeen
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Shiny new website for world’s oldest industry
The hospitality industry is often cited as being “the oldest industry in the world,” and looking at some of the marketing collateral and content produced by some of the current participants in that industry, it might just well be true. That’s why, when it came time to renew their website, global hospitality recruitment firm Hospitality
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A Formula One double whammy for yBC
At Tuesday’s Brilliant Minds Showcase at Lords Cricket Ground in London, the yBC team filmed an interview with Formula One’s David Coulthard MBE. David is well known as one of Britain’s most successful Formula One racing drivers, turned presenter, commentator and journalist. He has driven with Williams F1, McLaren and Red Bull, retiring in 2008. However, the
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yBC team returns to Lords
It’s not very often you can ask over 200 business leaders to give up a day of their time, sit still, and thank you enthusiastically for it. Yet, Harvey Thorneycroft and his team achieved just that once again, yesterday, and with very good reason. The Brilliant Minds Showcase took place at Lords Cricket Ground yesterday.
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Flagship corporate video for China-based group
Harvest Global Investments is a China-based financial services organisation which is growing both its business and its reputation, globally. We were asked to develop two flagship videos for the group in their two main languages – Chinese and English. Our team conducted shoots in Hong Kong and Beijing and did the interviews in both English
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yBC launches significant training platform for AXA
The yBC team (under the FinPix brand) has this year delivered a world class, cloud based, fully bespoke training platform which is now being used by AXA IM (part of the AXA group). The platform enables key stakeholders to deliver accredited CPD training to independent financial advisers across the UK and Italy, with the ability
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A plethora of media launches across Asia
We’ve all been there: that two or three month period when it seems that just about every clever initiative or piece of excitement is happening at once. This is what happened with our client Eastspring Investments, a Singapore-based fund group owned by Prudential PLC, when in Q4 2018 they found that they were faced with
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Capturing the heart of stories around values
Global financial services giant Prudential PLC has a corporate presence in most major markets and some 24,000 employees around the globe. So, when the company undertakes an initiative to reinforce the key values of the business and help to develop the company culture, it’s a serious undertaking. We were sent to Vietnam to help capture
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