New research reveals that more than three-fifths of Brits (62%) don’t use their smartphone’s pre-loaded voice assistant capabilities. But for those that do, it suggests the greatest opportunity lies in their cars. AI and data-driven agency Artefact UK surveyed 2,000 British adults to understand how people are interacting with voice assistants both in and out […]
Global advertising expenditure by healthcare brands will grow 3.6% this year to reach US$36bn, according to Zenith’s Healthcare Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published on August 5. Zenith forecasts another year of 3.6% growth in 2020. This first exclusive survey of healthcare advertising in 13 key markets across the world builds on Zenith’s authoritative Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, […]
One of the world’s most effective brand design consultancy Elmwood, has helped to create Joii, a ground-breaking mobile app which leverages AI and is designed to make looking after a pet more accessible, more affordable and more convenient. The objective was to improve pet care outcomes by meeting the wants and needs of pets, pet owners and […]
The Flavor of Songs is the culmination of a six-month long study, where Tramontina – one of Brazil’s leading brands of cooking utensils—Spotify and J. Walter Thompson Brazil brought together neuroscientist Dr. Marcelo Costa, Head of the Neuroscience Department at the University of São Paulo, conductor João Rocha from the University of Kentucky, and Renato […]
Byte, the marketing technology agency has, together with the Barbican, created a chatbot to provoke conversations around the role of AI in society. The Facebook Messenger chatbot supports AI: More than Human exhibition which runs 16 May to 26 August and is part of the Barbican’s Life Rewired – a season exploring what it means to be human […]
Alzheimer’s Society, McCann Worldgroup in Europe, and MRM//McCann Frankfurt are launching My Carer, an Alexa Skill, created to help improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living with dementia in the UK. Globally dementia is expected to affect 50 million people by 2020. The cost of caring for dementia currently is $818 billion/£627billion. McCann developed the skill together […]
Sephora and experiential innovation agency Wildbytes unveil the future of retail by taking personalisation to the next level. In a world first for the international beauty chain, it has installed an intelligent digital mirror in its flagship store in Madrid, on the exclusive Calle Serrano. Powered by artificial intelligence, it delivers hyper-personalised experiences and product […]
Tomorrow’s creatives will need to have their feet firmly on the ground, with a working knowledge of coding, augmented reality, public speaking, trend identification and user experience cited as key skills, according to new research from in-house agency OLIVER. The agency canvassed 200 creatives working across FMCG, beauty, finance, media, healthcare and automotive, to identify […]
HUAWEI has created an app, that allows blind people to ‘see’ or experience emotions on the faces of people they are speaking to using the power of artificial intelligence (AI). The Facing Emotions app utilises the powerful camera and AI of the HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro, to translate seven universal human emotions, into seven unique […]
For 2018’s festive season, marketing communications agency Edit, part of Kin + Carta, has taken on a very different approach to their usual Christmas card brief and used artificial intelligence to reconstruct famous Christmas carols to send to their client base. According to Larry Page, Google co-founder, “Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The […]