Here is a nice twist on the increasingly popular trend towards mobile ARG gaming for brands. Made famous by the Mini Getaway and continued with campaigns like New Balance’s Urban Dash, this time it’s Nike’s turn, with a twist, in the “Catch The Flash” ARG in Vienna, Austria. This time it wasn’t just a virtual [...]
Continue reading...3. October 2011
Here is the latest campaign from the Swedish Post, who I must say, produce some very cool work for a post office! The campaign is called “Sweden’s Safest Hands” an augmented reality style challenge that is played out with your iPhone across the many streets of Sweden. The challenge is for people to virtually deliver [...]
Continue reading...10. August 2011
Here is a pretty cool new campaign from New Balance to promote their first Flagship store in New York. To do it, they’ve created the “Urban Dash” iPhone app that challenges you to find hundreds of virtual batons throughout New York, before running to the new flagship store while still in possession of that baton. [...]
Continue reading...19. April 2011
To kick it off… Think of Chromaroma as an automated version Foursquare for public transport in London! Weird right? Well, maybe not… Public transport is one of those things you use every day with out thinking and its often the most boring part of your day, so what if you could be part of an [...]
Continue reading...5. March 2011
Here is an interesting take on alternate reality campaigns. For the launch of the latest Tom Clancy game, Splinter Cell Conviction, UBISOFT teamed up with Layar to create the worlds first AR game on the popular Augmented Reality iPhone platform called Layar. The game challenged players (and the media) to follow clues that were delivered [...]
Continue reading...18. January 2011
By now you might have heard about the new Aston Martin digital campaign for the new Rapide four door sports car. It’s an interactive experience that aims to take branded content to the next level through a series of super-high-end short films and social content through a kind of ARG game that requires you to [...]
Continue reading...2. November 2010
Every now and then you come across a campaign idea that’s seriously cool, and those ideas can’t always be Old Spice… But this new alternate reality game / iPhone app combo from MINI in Sweden is very very cool indeed. The game challenges you to hunt, catch and escape with a virtual MINI in Stockholm using an [...]
Continue reading...9. August 2010
Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG) seems to be growing bigger every year and for the most part, it’s probably driven by events like Comic-Con where in 2010, the fith season of dexter was previewed with an ARG campaign by Showtime to drive hype in the lead up to the season launch. Websites, blogs, forums, videos, twitter [...]
Continue reading...9. June 2010
Volvo and EuroRSCG 4D are running an experiential campaign called Subject60 to promote the “naughty” new Volvo S60 and to do this they are hosting 5 naughty parties in 5 European cities (Berlin, London, Paris, Milan and Madrid) over 5 days and the only way to get an invite is to find the codes. Volvo has placed [...]
Continue reading...3. June 2010
Coca Cola has launched what looks to be a new ARG based around the secret coke recipe and a guy named Doctor Pemberton (one commenter on YouTube said, it sounds like the guy who invented Dr Pepper, or if he is real, is this the guy that laced the early versions with Cocaine?!). They’ve seeded a [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2010
For the launch campaign of Splinter Cell Conviction, Ubisoft combined with Layar, utilising their latest technology to create a mobile augmented reality challenge to help launch the new game. The video above is the campaign case study showing how they aimed to create a buzz around the games launch, with the aim to do something [...]
Continue reading...20. April 2010
I’ve been trying to track this video down for the last week to show everyone (finally succeeded), it’s called Nike Grid, an experiential campaign meets ARG about to be launched in London that is all about running. Street running, infact. The Grid is London, North, South East and West across 40 postcodes, the entirety is your gameboard. The [...]
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12. December 2011
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