Marmite, Unilever’s famous spread, has launched a new digital experience that analyses your emotions whilst you taste Marmite, to discover, in real-time, whether you are likely to be born a lover or a hater. The technology has been developed by digital creative agency AnalogFolk. Visit tasteface.marmite.co.uk on your mobile and try some Marmite. TasteFace and […]
In a new and unique experiment, Sweden’s state lottery, Lotto, takes Virtual Reality a bit further and are letting people check off their bucket lists and try life as a millionaire. The 5D-experiment, devised by POST Agency Stockholm, King and B-reel Films, allows participants to dive among reefs, throw themselves off cliffs and recharge at the world’s […]
Leading social analytics platform, Brandwatch, has unveiled its Social Intelligence Maturity Model (SIMM), offering a way to measure the value of a businesses’ social strategy and guide its growth into the future. Applying this model to a free Social Intelligence Maturity Assessment, the interactive survey evaluates the sophistication of a company’s social strategy, then aggregates […]
Brands using Snapchat to reach teenagers could be misguided according to new research, which finds that only 14% of users aged 16-24 use the app to find new products and brands to try. However, that figure rises to one in five (21%) among users aged 25-34. The findings come on the eve of Snapchat’s fifth […]
In a revolutionary time where our smartphones are a way of life, they also are becoming a way of love connections. Technology has really changed the standard for introductions and finding people. Tinder recently coming out as the top grossing app in the App Store is proof of this. Whether someone is currently on the […]
In a baseline study of attitudes to moving image entertainment among digital natives, Mediaplus Strategic Insights surveyed the role played by linear TV in comparison with Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVoD) services and illegal streaming portals. The digital natives are an especially important target group in this respect: on one hand, they are intensive media users, while […]
China has become the first nation to embrace facial recognition technology to authorise digital payments following an innovative play by Alibaba to ease queues in local KFC restaurants. The so-called ‘smile to pay’ service has been introduced in the city of Huangzhou as part of a trial with the chicken chain to boost the customer […]
Kagool, a digital agency with offices in Cardiff and Manchester, has made a raft of new hires, taking its headcount to 61. The new hires are following a successful year for Kagool, with a 42% revenue growth in the last financial year. 2017 has also started just as brightly, with similar levels expected, underpinned by […]
Heinz Yellow Mustard is marking its partnership as the new Official Mustard sponsor of the NFL in the UK with an integrated campaign created by creative social agency Media Bounty. Heinz’s partnership with NFL UK is brought to life through the Ultimate Playbook, a series of creative assets designed for social, print and outdoor channels, […]
Following the astounding success of the mobile game Sea Hero Quest, launched in 2016, Deutsche Telekom and Saatchi & Saatchi London launches the world’s first consumer focused Virtual Reality (VR) game where anyone can help scientists fight dementia through gameplay. Sea Hero Quest VR aims to harness the power of VR gameplay to aid dementia […]