It was only little over a year ago that Instagram raised the maximum length on a video from 15 seconds to one minute, however in a short space of time, video has rapidly become the most favoured visual media for consumers engaging with social media content. By 2020, Cisco predicts that global internet traffic from…
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There’s no doubt that the fight against food waste is not an easy one with brands, retailers and we as consumers all having a part to play. As a nation, we are throwing away £13bn worth of food a year which equals around 15m tonnes! One positive you won’t often hear though is that we…
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Last week, shopper research and convenience analysts him, revealed that convenience grocery shopping was overtaking the pumps at forecourts across the country as forecourts are no longer seen as petrol stations but rather as convenience stores that also sell petrol. Over the past few years, it is clear that forecourts are taking this transition seriously. …
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Back in 2009, hashtags belonged to Twitter. Designed initially to group together news topics, they have now developed into a mini language and world of their own, and it’s now Instagram that owns hash-tagging! With no character limit, we can hashtag to our heart’s content! And there’s not a day that goes by that doesn’t…
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Berkshire based consumer PR agency Escapade PR completes management buyout from parent company CCgroup Berkshire based consumer PR agency Escapade PR (that’s us!) has completed a management buyout from parent company CCgroup, led by Managing Director Lynne Goddard and Associate Director Rhianon Williams. The agency will continue to operate from its office in Reading, Berkshire,…
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The free from food market has been on the (pretty steep) incline for a few years now and is showing no signs of stopping. Between January and March this year, more than half of us bought a free from product, according to Kantar Worldpanel. A fashion emerged among young people to eat a free from…
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I may have already mentioned on this blog that I’m a big fan of shopping, and that doesn’t stop at clothes, shoes, bags in fact you name it, but extends to food too. Working with so many scrummy food brands, I’m always checking out the latest additions to the aisles and giving them a test…
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As we move into April (which alone could be a hoax), we took a moment to enjoy the April Fools that some of our favourite food brands have been testing our gullibility with. Some we are glad are not a thing (think “whopper toothpaste”) and others we wish were true (hello popcorn funnel)! BURGER KING…
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Instagram is the home of unrealistic body and life goals, a place where the beautiful people go to flaunt their wares. Most people could admit they get a little bit envious of some aspect of others’ social media lives and that we even try and portray our own daily adventures to being a bit more…
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