Our Favourite Christmas Campaigns of 2016

There is nothing better than an outstandingly executed Christmas campaigns to get us in the mood for the impending festivities. We all wait around for the Coca-Cola Christmas advert to decide when it’s time to begin feeling excited about Christmas. Yet, we forget how Christmas Marketing Campaigns adds to the festivity. Therefore with the Christmas season well under way, we have picked our favourite Christmas Marketing Campaigns of 2016 and the ones that have made us feel extra festive. 

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Everything You Need to Know About How Content Marketing is Changing

Since 2010, content marketing has been one of the fastest-evolving aspects of marketing. From what’s being written, to where and how it’s published, businesses are constantly reformulating how they engage possible customers through using content and keeping it varied. 

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Why and How Instagram Has Not Killed Snapchat Yet?

It has been four months since the launch of Instagram Stories in August 2016, which sent the internet into a huge hysteria and speculation over the future of Snapchat. To everyone who is on social media, the latest update of Instagram seemed eerily similar to the social networking app Snapchat with 30 million monthly active users. In fact, the update wasn’t just eerily similar, it’s the exact same as Snapchat. Therefore, the hysteria and speculation was with good reason too as Instagram had pretty much replicated one of the main features of Snapchat and added it to their online photo sharing social network platform. Instagram has 500 million monthly active users is clearly hoping that there newly introduced ‘Stories’ will help them steal the Snapchat audience with its nearly identical upgrade.

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7 Reasons You Need Video Content to Showcase Your Business

This year has seen the rise of video content, in fact 2016 has seen a full-on video revolution year for marketers. This year has seen the introduction of Facebook Live, Instagram Stories and apps like Periscope interplaying on social channels. The importance of video content has clearly been becoming extremely popular to use by businesses. According to Wyzowl statistics, 61% of businesses have incorporated video as a marketing tool but 66% of these companies were not using video a year ago. The trend has progressed rapidly and will eventually be explored even more in depth and become even more creative. As you can see, having a promotional video that tells a compelling story is vital for your business and company’s needs due to the rapidly growing trend.

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The Revolution of Branding and Brand Trends

Branding has been going through a revolution. Over the past few years, branding has been shifting from representing pre-packaged, unapproachable and distant organisations to a more personal and connective state. Today, the expectations of consumers and B2B buyers are becoming more demanding. People want to understand and know everything about a business. They want to know what it is, what it produces, what it values and stands for and what it employs. More importantly, people want to interact more with brands, be able to demand new products and services, and be active in conversations with them. This has meant that brands have had to lose their impersonal, uncommunicative and distant skins.

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Everything You Need To Know About Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is a computer technology that replicates an environment, real or imagined, and simulates a user's physical presence and environment to allow for user interaction. Virtual realities artificially create sensory experience, which can include sight, touch, hearing, and smell.

VR is not just for games! It's is a piece of technology that will be taking the world by storm and applied across a huge range of industries in the next few years. Revenues from VR products are expected to increase from $90 million to... $5.2 Billion by 2018! It is also forecast that by 2018 the number of active VR users is to reach 171 million.

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Top Social Media Tactics Of 2016 (So far...)

In the growing social media environment accessed every day via online platforms, the ways in which audiences consume content is consistently changing. Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are leading the race in terms of developing social media tactics to attract consumers, and those using social networks to create an online presence can take advantage of these methods in order to create a brand and attract specific demographics. However, there are some social media tactics that stand out more than others – innovating the way we use social media today.

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UNBXD Top 10 Independent magazines

According to the media, print is a dying art form, unnecessary and obsolete since the rise of the internet. This article aims to celebrate the creatives of the world challenging this theory and succeeding in providing the public with tangible printy goodness. This is a list of UNBXD's Top 10 independent magazines that we believe you shouldn't be without.

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Top 5 Web Design Trends Of 2016

So far this year there has been a surge in the popularity of responsive web design, as more and more sites join the drive to become 'mobile ready'.

Web usage patterns are changing and statistics cannot be ignored if you want to succeed in today's market. Every third website visitor now uses a mobile device and website that don't offer mobile optimised versions are causing an unpleasant experience and eventually loses money as users tend to abandon the website if it doesn't render well on mobile devices.

This brings us to our first trend of 2016...

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