Most read: Brands get behind #BlueMonday on social media
Today is Blue Monday, the third Monday in January otherwise known as the most depressing day of the year. What are brands on social media doing to cheer us up?
Carphone Warehouse has been sending out personalised cartoons.
What a better way to cheer up on with their very own sketch!
— Carphone Warehouse (@CPWTweets)
While Tesco has been handing out free fruit and renaming today Blueberry Monday.
Forget - it's Blueberry Monday at Tesco
— Tesco News (@TescoMedia)
Cawston Press is offering a month's supply of drinks to one lucky winner.
We're cheering up with the chance to a month's supply of our drinks, just RT & follow by 9pm!
— Cawston Press (@cawstonpress)
Brands including .
Mentors: Publicis Groupe to invest millions in 90 digital start-ups
, as the holding company celebrates its 90th anniversary this year.
The owner of Saatchi & Saatchi and Starcom Mediavest Group is inviting submissions via the , which went live online today.
The holding company said it wants to foster digital entrepreneurship and provide "the support they need to bring their projects to life, or to take it to the next level".
Instant Karma: Pret a Manger puts altruistic twist on coffee giveaway
Fast food chain Pret a Manger is putting a new spin on its policy of allowing staff to give some customers free coffee.
From today staff will, instead of distributing instant karma, put a special sleeve (pictured) on some cups that entitle someone to claim a free coffee or tea.
and is encouraging recipients of the sleeves to pass them on to someone else and make their day.
It will hand out 120,000 of the sleeves from today, and the last date on which they can be used will be 28 February.
Food fight: Gourmet Burger Kitchen sorry for 'offensive ads' mocking vegetarians
after sparking a deluge of complaints about its outdoor ad campaign that mocked vegetarians.
The ads, which appeared on the London Underground on 16 January, featured a picture of a hamburger with the caption, "Vegetarians, resistance is futile".
It is accompanied by a picture of a GBK receipt and the caption, "You’ll always remember when you gave up being a vegetarian".
After a backlash on social media, the brand announced that it was "taken aback" by the reaction and would remove some of the ads.
i dont care if this is tongue in cheek advertisement, but i dont appreciate it.
— Ericka (@ericka_yabut)
Fashion: Diesel creates emojis for Pornhub and Grindr push
for a risqué campaign running on porn site Pornhub and gay social network Grindr to promote its spring/summer 2016 collection.
The campaign, which builds on the fashion label's 'Decoded by Diesel' brand platform, features singer and actor Joe Jonas, singer and designer Kiko Mizuhara and catwalk stars including Stav Strashko, a male who models women’s clothes.
The campaign is appearing in print, out-of-home and online.
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