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Domino’s Pizza Hero Advergame for iPad
Today Domino’s launched “Pizza Hero” a new semi-real-time advergame that challenges you to become just that, a Pizza Hero as you battle people from around the world to top the leaderboard. The app is pretty cool, and will have you kneading dough, spreading sauce, sprinkling cheese, placing toppings, and cutting slices as you race against [...]
Continue reading...Mercedes-Benz: Escape The Map Advergame
17. November 2011
Mercedes-Benz UK are running a pretty interesting campaign called “Escape The Map“. It’s lead by a TVC challenging a much younger demographic to jump online and play the “Escape The Map Game”. I’ll be honest, it’s a pretty weird game, and that’s a dam expensive car, but you have the chance to win a new [...]
Continue reading...Macy’s: Believe-o-Magic AR Xmas Card App
13. November 2011
Well it looks like it’s going to be an Augmented Reality Xmas in 2011…With Macy’s the latest brand to release an AR app for the festive season. This time, it’s an Augmented Reality Xmas Card App, where you can turn up at any of the Macy’s “Believe Stations” to post your kid’s letters to Santa, [...]
Continue reading...PlayStation: Grab The Ring AR Challenge
7. November 2011
I think most of us have seen the “last standing” promotional challenge mechanic… Well, PlayStation and Uncharted have teamed up to create something a little more interesting for the launch the Uncharted3 game, using Augmented Reality for a who can last the longest campaign! It’s called Grab The Ring, first you activate your webcam and [...]
Continue reading...National Geographic: Live Augmented Reality
6. November 2011
There is a pretty cool National Geographic road show touring shopping centres in Hungary right now, an augmented reality installation that lets the thousands of people passing by interact with the type of content they would find on the National Geographic channel, from dolphins and dinosaurs to leopards, spacemen and lots more. It works by [...]
Continue reading...Light Painting: The Volkswagen Art Heist
13. October 2011
Here is a beautiful ambient meets social campaign for the new Volkswagen Jetta GLI in Canada where they’ve created a series of pop-up art galleries that feature “Light Paintings” made by the movement of the Volkswagen Jetta. Framed, installed and then left for the public to find (and take home for free) the light paintings [...]
Continue reading...Audi A6: Interactive YouTube Driving Experience
10. October 2011
Audi is claiming to have launched the world’s first interactive YouTube driving experience for the new Audi A6. The interactive YouTube experience uses the indexing feature so you can control the video with your keypad numbers, allowing you to jump from section to section to provide the illusion that you are actually controlling the car. [...]
Continue reading...Beck’s: Green Box Project Vimeo Takeover
3. October 2011
Here is a nice, simple yet creative Vimeo takeover that doesn’t try too hard to pull you into the experience like many of the standard YouTube template takeovers seem to do. It’s for the Beck’s Green Box Project, a global fund established to inspire, celebrate and financially support talent in art, design, music and fashion. [...]
Continue reading...Scandinavian Airlines: The TimeKiller App
3. October 2011
Here is a great little time wasting utility app from SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) that isn’t actually made for its loyal customers, but for their competitor airline customers, after SAS won the award for being the most punctual airline again, and for the last few years in a row. The whole idea here aims to poke [...]
Continue reading...Lynx: Sexy Rugby Rules For World Cup
22. September 2011
Most of you would have heard about the “World Cup” on in New Zealand right now, but I suspect a large percentage of you, particularly people from the US, might not know all the rules of Rugby… So, in a style made famous recently, here is the “Sexy Rugby Rules” presented by Lynx. I thought [...]
Continue reading...Foursquaropoly: Monopolize Your Real Life
14. September 2011
Remember when Monopoly City Streets launched? It went crazy over night, sunk server farms and created a new wave of addicted adult gamers the world over. So what would happen if you made that same Monopoly game… say, real? Well, a few students have pulled this great little concept together for a project, with a [...]
Continue reading...Ubisoft “Driver” Augmented Reality iPad2 Game
8. September 2011
Ubisoft and GAME have teamed up to launch an Augmented Reality iPad Game that lets you race cars from the new release around just about anywhere you can place a marker… Once the app is loaded, you can start your race by pointing your iPad2 at the marker, from there it will setup your augmented [...]
Continue reading...Frijj: You LOL You Lose Advergame
15. August 2011
This new advergame from Frijj utilises an interesting mashup of funny, weird and seriously bad YouTube videos with webcams and facial recognition to create the “You LOL You Lose” app. The advergame pits you against friends from your social networks, in a challenge of who can keep a straight face for the longest period of [...]
Continue reading...New Balance: Urban Dash Challenge ARG App
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...Nokia N8: The World’s Largest Stop Motion Film
3. August 2011
Nokia is making another big push to promote the quality cameras on board their latest range of phones, by partnering with Aardman Animations and Wieden + Kennedy once again to create the Gulp animation, a new Guinness World Record animation filmed on the Nokia N8. The stop motion fim is shot entirely on the new [...]
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