Is it too early to say Christmas? Probably… but I’m going for it anyway! This week Amazon commissioned a new survey to investigate the UK’s festive shopping habits to support the launch of their Christmas Shop and Gift Finder on their website as they found brits spend 882 hours in their lifetime purchasing 1,386 Christmas…
Read more >
Last week saw KFC promoting negative customer tweets to promote new fries recipe. Setting a great example of why embracing your flaws can be powerful creative tool. KFC has changed its fries recipe after customers complained they were terrible – and is using customer’s tweets to highlight the message.The smart campaign sees the fast food giant…
Read more >
Last week Google celebrated its 20th birthday! We know! It seems crazy to think that, twenty years ago, two students in a garage made it their life mission to organise all the information in the world for everyone to use – and Google was born. It has since grown into an empire that not only allows us…
Read more >
“I’m just popping out to get some bits – do you need anything?” is a phrase that a lot of us hear regularly, but where does your mum, dad, sibling or flatmate actually go when they say this – to the petrol station or a convenience store? Research conducted by HIM would suggest that there are…
Read more >
This month we’re getting to know lifestyle blogger Vix Meldrew! Known for her capsule wardrobes, chatty captions and general life updates! When did you first set up your social channels, and what got you started? I set them up to coincide with the launch of my blog back in 2014. I knew that’s ‘what bloggers…
Read more >
While it might not suit everyone, at Escapade, we like a noisy, vibrant working environment. So much so that bizarrely we all seem to lose concentration if the office is silent. Invariably this means that we have constant music and chat playing out in the background, cue the regular heated debates on what station to…
Read more >
This week, Facebook will introducing its digital wellbeing screen-time management dashboards for both Facebook and Instagram, initially in the U.S. before rolling it out to all users in the coming weeks. Through various studies, Facebook concluded recently that it was “passive zombie-feed scrolling, not active communication with friends, that hurts our health”, and has since…
Read more >
Last year, in the UK, on average each person spent four hours accessing the internet via a laptop and over 1 hour 45 minutes through a mobile device each day¹. So, if you look around your office or home, you’ll notice that it’s very likely that if someone is on the internet, they may also…
Read more >
Loyalty. Anyone who’s been watching Love Island will be pretty familiar with the term. This year’s Islander, Georgia and her commitment to demonstrating loyalty to herself, her friends, her family, her fellow Islanders, you get the gist has been well documented/ridiculed! And we’re all familiar with loyalty, whether it’s in our personal or professional life. As…
Read more >
