Velocity Frequent Flyer (VFF), the award-winning loyalty program of Virgin Australia, launched The #Earnbassadors. The latest marketing initiative from Velocity and CHE Proximity aims to reward Frequent Flyer members in Points, for educating other members about the Velocity program. Dean Chadwick, Chief Marketing Officer at Velocity Frequent Flyer explains: “Our most engaged members will do […]
New Balance unleashes a style revolution with its cutting-edge, artificial-intelligence-led activation to promote its new women’s shoe. Created with experiential innovation agency, Wildbytes, and media agency, Roldós Media, the bold launch event uses AI software to spot fashion-forward individuals who challenge industry conventions. In line with the maverick spirit of the new Fresh Foam Cruz […]
The independent creative agency CULT has launched its first ever Amazon Alexa and Google Home voice app, Mindscape. Created to offer front-line support to people suffering from anxiety or a panic attack, Mindscape was released on October 9 and is the first product created by CULT Experiment, the agency’s new offering – an innovation lab […]
Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon, two leaders in the social intelligence space, announce the signing of a merger agreement. This merger, expected to close in Q4, creates a c. $100 million annual recurring revenue business that will move forward as Brandwatch. “In this digitally connected world, our vision is to transform how organisations understand their consumers […]
Yonder Media, the agency formed earlier in 2018 by The Beyond Collective, has created a spoof ChatBot Media Planner that claims to offer clients a perfect replica of their current agency service in Chatbot form. Calling itself “the world’s first chatbot-powered media planning tool”, it offers to analyse each advertiser’s specific requirements before producing a […]
In a new survey, Chatbots are still at the top spot as the digital trend considered most important for organisations to embrace in the coming months. More than six out of 10 of respondents said that Chatbots would be important to their organisation in the next five years; and 28 per cent said that they […]
Bloomberg Media’s innovation lab, BHIVE, has launched The Bulletin, the latest feature to its mobile app delivering added utility to today’s on-the-go professionals. Based on BHIVE’s extensive user research on news delivery preferences, the new feature, available on the homepage of the mobile app, makes it easy for users to get a snapshot of the […]
Although we live in the age of information, having too much information – and not being able to make sense of it – can be overwhelming. For companies that receive large amounts of media coverage every month, analysing this information can provide them with valuable insights that can shape their business strategies. Focal Points has […]
Social and Mobile agency, Puzzle, have partnered with Ted Baker to launch ‘Seemore’, his unique virtual assistant through its UK Facebook Community. Seemore is designed to showcase Ted Baker’s AW18 range in a new and engaging way for customers as well as helping them with their most common enquires. By harnessing the latest machine learning technology […]
Billion Dollar Boy, a global influencer marketing agency, is announcing the launch of StoryTracker, an industry first AI-powered Instagram Story tracking tool. This unique piece of software allows influencers and influencer marketing professionals to locate, categorise, save, download and analyse Instagram Stories before they disappear. With Instagram recently releasing figures showing that Stories now has […]