Amazon Prime unleashed a mixed reality (MR) apocalypse on the streets of New York City to promote their hotly anticipated fantasy series Good Omens. Based upon the novel of the same name from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens stars Michael Sheen and David Tennant as an angel and demon who join forces in […]
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 […]
With the “Heroes of the Night” app, Beck’s is launching a new initiative in keeping with its brand claim “You make it legendary”. From now on, WhatsApp users can simply transform their chat history into a comic and therefore recreate their epic night out with friends in the most unique way. In cooperation with comic […]
A ground-breaking mobile app offering early warning detection of potentially fatal strokes has been developed by Cheil Hong Kong. According to WHO figures, someone has a stroke every two seconds. It claims the lives of more than 6 million people die each year. Meanwhile, two thirds of those who survive are left with brain damage […]
Virgin Media gave TV fans a unique glimpse of 2019’s Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards, with a 360 live stream from the red carpet, a robotic photo experience capturing beautiful shots of guests, behind the scenes interviews with award winners and the chance to win tickets to 2020’s BAFTA TV Awards. As part of […]
Storytime, a revolutionary education app from Telekom, was created by Leo Burnett Bucharest to enhance the experience of bedtime stories through the features of the phone, no matter the distance. The Telekom Storytime app enables parents working abroad to tell their children bedtime stories remotely, with the technology of the app meaning parents don’t just […]
Mindshare, part of WPP, and Sanofi, the global healthcare leader, have launched the UK’s first brand-led pollen alert on Amazon’s Alexa platform. In addition to being market-leading within the consumer health space, it is also the first voice-activated skill to use hyper-local data to notify users about high pollen counts in their postcode. It is […]
The traffic in Brazil is considered one of the most violent in the Americas, with Sao Paulo being the state with the highest number of road traffic deaths and drunk driving being the second largest cause of these deaths, according to recent data from the World Health Organisation (WHO). During popular festivals, the numbers grow […]
Ultimate Creative Communications has just launched the new Chester Zoo website, placing it firmly on the map alongside other leading attractions worldwide. Using Chester Zoo’s existing powerful brand, Ultimate have been able to showcase everything this world-leading zoo has to offer. Preventing extinction is the Zoo’s top priority and the website has a vital role […]