Goodby Silverstein launches augmented reality Instagram

Goodby Silverstein launches augmented reality Instagram

 What if your Instagram feed was all around you as you walked through the city? That’s the challenge GS&P Labs, Goodby Silverstein & Partners’ in-house innovation department, tackled with its new prototype, GRAMAR. The new prototype fuses Instagram and ARKit by turning Instagram photos into 8ft x 8ft images and places them in the world around […]

Consumers want improvement over digital innovation in 2018, according to Code Computerlove

Consumers want improvement over digital innovation in 2018, according to Code Computerlove

Cutting through the ‘digital trends hype’ and deciding which emerging digital technologies to invest in 2018 is a challenge for most decision makers; being a forerunner with new digital trends and introducing innovative new technologies can after all be a ‘game changer’ for brands and businesses. But a new survey has revealed that most consumers […]

Snapchat announces Lens Studio Partner Program

Snapchat announces Lens Studio Partner Program

Snap Inc. has launched Lens Studio, a real-time tool for brands to design and build 2D and 3D augmented reality Snapchat Lenses. For the first time ever since it launched Lenses in 2015, Snap has vetted, trained, and approved a selection of best in class augmented reality production partners to develop Snapchat Lenses for advertisers. […]

Lidl partners with Brian Blessed to launch the first game on Facebook Camera in the UK

Lidl partners with Brian Blessed to launch the first game on Facebook Camera in the UK

Lidl UK has launched the first supermarket game to be played through the Facebook Camera app in the UK. The launch forms part of Lidl’s Christmas campaign in 2017, as the brand continues to build consumer engagement and relevance. The ‘Emojional Rollercoaster’ game is available on the Facebook Camera app, which users can instantly access […]

Mindshare reveals the top 5 trends for brands in 2018

Mindshare reveals the top 5 trends for brands in 2018

Mindshare UK has launched its Trends Report 2018 which identifies the top five trends for marketers to watch in 2018. The report investigates a variety of topics from AR to AI and shows how consumers across all ages are embracing technological advancements with 46% of consumers willing to use facial recognition as a form of official […]

J. Walter Thompson’s Innovation Group Forecasts the 100 Trends Shaping the Future

J. Walter Thompson’s Innovation Group Forecasts the 100 Trends Shaping the Future

The Innovation Group presents The Future 100, our snapshot of the year ahead and the 100 most compelling trends to keep on the radar. https://t.co/196tQURZO5 pic.twitter.com/bFQ2OuEjPD — JWTIntelligence (@JWTIntelligence) December 4, 2017 J. Walter Thompson’s Innovation Group unveiled its fourth annual Future 100 Report. Future 100: Trends and Changes to Watch in 2018 helps readers […]

Mindshare previews key trends for 2018

Mindshare previews key trends for 2018

Mindshare UK previewed their Trends for 2018 – identifying the top five trends for marketers to watch for over the next 12 months, during their Huddle in London on November 9. A comprehensive report will then follow on December 5th exploring the trends in detail, their role in consumers’ lives, and their implications for the […]

Rihanna and Sephora Launch Fenty Beauty with the World’s First Live-Created Fan Film

Rihanna and Sephora Launch Fenty Beauty with the World’s First Live-Created Fan Film

Never shy of breaking the rules, Rihanna launches her globally anticipated makeup line, Fenty Beauty, in collaboration with Sephora, with an explosive experiential action for a new generation of beauty. The film of the experience shows the complete takeover of Madrid’s central Callao Square, orchestrated by experiential design agency Wildbytes. Fenty’s Playground invited Rihanna’s navy […]

Serviceplan’s CEO Florian Haller gets pelted with virtual tomatoes during their Innovation Day

Serviceplan’s CEO Florian Haller gets pelted with virtual tomatoes during their Innovation Day

Serviceplan Group’s CEO put himself in the “stocks” at the Innovation Day, which took place on September 28 in the House of Communication. The audience could virtually pelt the speaker on the stage with tomatoes, flowers, teddy bears and bras using an app from the Hamburg start-up Helhed – on the audience’s phone displays, it looked as though […]

Patrón Tequila Unveils ‘The Patrón Experience,’ a Hand-Held AR Innovation

Patrón Tequila Unveils ‘The Patrón Experience,’ a Hand-Held AR Innovation

On the heels of Apple’s announcement of the next generation iPhone, powered by iOS 11 with ARKit, Patrón Tequila is taking iPhone users on an interactive journey to its home in Jalisco, Mexico. Titled “The Patrón Experience,” this newly released, augmented reality platform heralds the next frontier in experiential marketing and gives tequila connoisseurs and curious […]