Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival is always an outrageous and happy affair. People dress up and they drink and often they drive home—which is exactly what the main-sponsor of the event, Antarctica beer, hoped party-goers would not do. Working with Brazil’s Almap BBDO, they came up with a creative and socially responsible advertising concept called the […]
DinnerWire.com announced the dual launch of their mobile app and smart restaurant reservations system. The DinnerWire for Foodies app is now available for diners at the iTunes app store and Google Play. Restaurants that submit a profile on the DinnerWire website get a free trial of a smart reservations system for one year. The mobile […]
Craving for some delicious pizza, but don’t know where to get some? Have no fear, because there is now an app that points you in the direction of the nearest pizzeria. Called ‘Pizza Compass’, it is an iOS app that features a ‘pizza-to-mouth’ indicator that shows you the exact travel distance to that delicious slice. […]
A London pub has achieved the kind of marketing success some can only dream of just by utilising the power of smartphones and Facebook to solve its marketing problems. Harnessing a new retail technology called LifeSynk, The Cavendish Arms in Stockwell is using smartphones and also NFC technology to get people back through the doors […]
In their bid to revolutionize the digital experience, Domino’s Pizza is truly opening its doors. Digitally, that is. The recognized world leader in pizza delivery launches its new Domino’s Live online platform – a destination where customers can follow the action of an in-store lunch or dinner rush live, and experience something unique and innovative […]
Vinocopia Wines is using this week’s Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America conference (WSWA 2013) as the launch-point for its new wine barrel system. The Vinocopia Barrel offers significant improvements over alternatives in that it uses replaceable and recyclable 4 liter plastic inserts to hold its wines in beautifully authentic, handcrafted, reclaimed-oak barrels. This works […]
Budweiser has launched a campaign called ‘Buddy Cup’, which centres on a beer glass with a built-in chip that integrates with Facebook. Created by Agência Africa, each time two people toast using the new beer glass – the ‘Buddy Cup’ – they instantly become friends online via Facebook. The technology was developed in partnership with […]
‘Ahh’—that is the word/theme centered around Coca-Cola’s new ad campaign called the ‘The Ahh Effect’. Created by ad agency Wieden + Kennedy Portland, Coke bought 61 URLs that are all variations of the word ‘ahh’—with each URL adding an additional ‘H’ at the end, meaning ahh.com, ahhh.com, ahhhh.com, and so on. 17 of these domains […]
The Coca-Cola Company and OgilvyAction have developed a social music project called the ‘Coca-Cola Remix Bottle’. It revolves around a Coca-Cola bottle that captures every day sounds turning them into shareable remixes, spreading happiness wherever it goes. The Coca-Cola Remix bottle was created when Coca-Cola ASEAN and a young Japanese DJ-inventor, Jun Fujiwara, got together. […]
The beer drinking experience is already fairly interactive. You open bottles, clink them against your friends’ bottles, and dress them up in little cozies to keep them cold. Apparently, all that wasn’t enough for Heineken, which unveiled a prototype of its new Heineken Ignite bottle last week at Milan Design Week. The bottles incorporate LEDs, […]