J. Walter Thompson London brought together global children’s charity Plan UK and popular dating app Happn to raise awareness of the massive number of girls who are married before their 16th birthday J. Walter Thompson London approached Plan UK with the idea of teaming with Happn and taking over their feed for a day. Today, […]
10 Minutes With, the global career matchmaking platform, has launched a mobile app for iPhone and Android to help undergraduate, masters and MBA students search for their ideal job and connect with companies they want to work with. Available for free on iPhone and Android, the app encourages users to create a career profile, select […]
Ogilvy & Mather Singapore and Toys “R” Us has launched a one-of-a-kind mobile app that makes it fun and easy for kids to earn their most coveted toys after completing tasks or chores set by their parents or guardians. The app, named “Tasks for Toys”, was recently launched to solidify the brand’s position as the […]
Nintendo has unearthed details about its landmark entry into mobile gaming, revealing its first title, a free-to-play chat app called Miitomo. The app, produced by mobile developer DeNA, enables the Nintendo community to communicate with each other using their customisable Mii avatars. Details of what the game will entail are few and far between and […]
Ad platform Blippar, which delivers AR content and experiences triggered by real-world objects and tags, has acquired augmented reality firm Binocular, which creates AR applications and specialises in virtual try-on technology. Binocular came to the world’s attention last year when it won the Cannes Lions Bronze award for best use of technology for its work […]
Toy R Us has introduced a number of digital elements, including augmented reality, to its festive magazine to ensure children keep flicking through its extensive 96 pages. Marking the point where augmented reality meets traditional shopping, eight toy-laden spreads in the catalog, entitled the ‘The Great Big Toys R Us Book of Awesome’, come to […]
Bentley Motors, the luxury car brand, has introduced an app that creates a personalised car design, based on the user’s passions, lifestyle and personality type. The Bentley Inspirator uses emotion recognition software that creates an individually designed car. It has been created by VML London, which used emotion metric algorithms built using data from 3.4 […]
The refugee crisis currently occurring in Europe, the Middle East and north Africa is the worst in 60 years, with more than 11m migrants and refugees fleeing war-torn nations in the hope of finding safety, shelter and a new life. However, one change that has made life a little easier for migrants is the proliferation […]
TMW Unlimited is launching a new children’s interactive story app featuring Ray Brooks, the narrator of the much-loved Mr Benn animated TV series. The app is the brainchild of a TMW Unlimited employee and is launching as a result of the agency’s Project Iliad business incubator programme. The Haunting of Bagger Bones was devised by […]
The New York Times will distribute Google Cardboard virtual reality (VR) viewers to its home-delivery newspaper customers in the U.S. as part of a new campaign. The media giant has partnered with Google for the initiative, and will deliver more than one million of the units to readers’ homes over the weekend of November 7-8. […]