Ikea has created an augmented reality app that allows customers to see how its products would fit into their homes as it looks to boost its online and mobile sales and limit returns of ill-fitting furniture. The updated 2014 Ikea Catalogue app, available on iOS and Android, will enable customers to try out 90 products […]
How do you showcase a new adventure car to a target audience that spends their time outdoors? You take the website to them. This is what Toyota Africa did to bring the new Toyota RAV4 product site to life on an outdoor bike trail at the Bryanston Cycle Park in Johannesburg. The 1.8-km cycling track […]
Apple is reportedly planning a feature on its long-awaited TV service that will allow viewers to choose not to watch ads. According to former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin, who broke the news this week, Apple has told broadcasters and networks that it wants to offer customers a premium service where they can skip […]
Google Inc has launched a small network of balloons over the Southern Hemisphere in an experiment it hopes could bring reliable Internet access to the world’s most remote regions, the company said late Friday. The pilot program, Project Loon, took off this month from New Zealand’s South Island, using solar-powered, high-altitude balloons that ride the […]
SKIN-CARE brand Nivea has created a solar-powered mobile phone charger. The bizarre move from the folks at Nivea was made to ensure people read its sunscreen ad – its solar-powered sunscreen ad. The company took out a full-page ad in a Brazilian magazine and decked it out with solar panels and a charging port you […]
Nissan created a unique self-healing paint that aims to make cars absolutely unscratchable. To convey how cool the technology is, the car company joined up with TBWA/G1 Paris, OMD Europe, and Dan Paris, to make a surprising iPad ad that teaches unsuspecting consumers how cool and unexpected the feature is. Users came across a seemingly […]
Insects like mosquitoes and flies can be quite a big problem in the Northern hemisphere—especially during the warmer seasons. To help combat the flying pests and promote its brand of insecticide, ORPHEA created a billboard ad that traps insects. Transparent glue was applied on the ad’s surface in the shape of a jet spray coming […]
Here’s a brilliant Ad Shell idea designed to raise awareness for Child Abuse, but also to communicate directly to the child (complete with phone number to call), without the parents or potential aggressors even knowing. Taking the average height for adults and children under 10, they created two different messages based off the viewers height/perspective, […]
Volkswagen takes advantage of YouTube’s own technology in this video project by Almap BBDO, designed to highlight the car’s “side assist” feature for sensing objects in your blind spot. In the web film, a man invites you to see how good it would be if the future was predictable, by placing your mouse on YouTube’s […]
It’s interesting to see a second screen approach for radio. Forsman & Bodenfors have created an interactive radio player for computers, tablets and mobile to encourage sharing radio programmes via social media. It’s a very simple concept, well executed. Think of it as sound cloud for radio, and built for sharing on facebook. The more content […]