Netflix has kept entertainment at it’s heart in this latest outdoor ad campaign, creating the world’s first ever real-time outdoor billboard campaign using only GIFs. With the recent comeback of GIFs Netflix spotted a new and interesting way to make outdoor billboards more reactive and interesting in this campaign from Ogilvy Paris. For the streaming [...]
Continue reading...27. October 2014
Undoubtedly, selfies were the creative trend for digital engagement ideas last year. We seemed to hit peak selfie (technically speaking) with the MegaFon MegaFaces installation at the Sochi games. An amazing piece of work: Last week a similar idea appeared in a new Old Navy campaign. This begs the question, when is a derivative idea [...]
Continue reading...4. September 2014
KLM is a successful brand which understands and embraces the digital medium better than its peers. Last week KLM connected hundreds of people in Amsterdam and New York live, through high fives. For one day, two interactive installations provided a live look through across the ocean. This created spontaneous interactions, letting people on the street [...]
Continue reading...31. July 2013
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 [...]
Continue reading...26. April 2013
Free WiFi is available almost everywhere we go. People are constantly online, busy with their electronic gadgets all the time. As Kit Kat we saw that as an opportunity to give people a break. So instead of offering Free WiFi like every other brand, we created a Free No-WiFi Zone. A big sign with a [...]
Continue reading...17. January 2013
Here’s a cool execution from BMW. They came up with the idea of the BMW iWindow to show the world what the future of driving could look like in New York. Using digital projection and motion detection technology they projected concept cars in real-time on a giant window. The cars were made to look like the real, future [...]
Continue reading...25. October 2012
Jameson Irish Whiskey has launched a huge Blippar activation in Australia for the launch of their new RTDs. The Blippar campaign turns the bottle (where ever it is seen) into a game when scanned with the Blippar App, which is powered by Image Recognition technology on an Augmented Reality Platform, creating ‘playable’ billboards, adshells, websites, [...]
Continue reading...2. July 2012
Last week Australia saw one of the biggest experiential activations of the year in Sydney when Cadbury unleashed the latest chapter of the Cadbury Joyville story. At a few select train stations in Sydney a giant purple Cadbury Joyville steam train pulled onto platforms to spread some Cadbury joy (and some Dairy Milk chocolate) to [...]
Continue reading...1. July 2012
Here’s a nice little experiential campaign from Australian bank NAB. They launched their new Honesty Shouldn’t Go Unrewarded piece with a real time stunt that saw honest passersby thanked in real time for returning lost objects. The stunt was set in a mall where shoppers were given the opportunity to return lost property. After returning [...]
Continue reading...19. June 2012
Here’s a great example of what happens when projection mapping meets social media. Yesterday we saw a nice piece of experiential marketing from adidas with their ‘Ready to Run‘ campaign, now here is a nice piece of projection from adidas that let’s the user see their name in lights! This ‘Light You Up’ Projection from [...]
Continue reading...19. June 2012
Here is a smart campaign idea from McDonalds in Poland by DDB Warsaw, which has just won some acclaim at Cannes. At the Central Station of Warsaw, Poland, McDonalds integrated their menu into the train timetable. The timetable not only showed up-to-date schedule information but also showed how many items from the menu you had [...]
Continue reading...3. May 2012
Here is a very smart use of QR codes from Korea, a region known for it’s high levels of traction with this technology. This campaign from Emart, one of the largest retailers in Korea, needed to increase sales during lunchtime. Emart introduced “The Sunny Sale” which involved a three-dimensional QR code that was placed across [...]
Continue reading...1. May 2012
Here’s another great real-world campaign from Coca-Cola, ‘The Cheering Truck’. The brand’s well known red truck has been fitted with a recording booth and has been travelling all over Argentina collecting the cheers of football fans to support the Argentinean team. The truck drove through 19 provinces in Argentina, stopping in selected areas inviting fans [...]
Continue reading...21. February 2012
Here’s a new take on flashmobs from Intel to showcase the features of their new Ultrabooks. Intel used 60 people to create a digital billboard made of Ultrabooks to demonstrate the product’s ultra-thin design and responsiveness. The flashmob team carried out a series of live surprise stunts across Los Angeles, using the laptops to interact [...]
Continue reading...19. February 2012
I expect the Microsoft Kinect to be partnered up with tonnes of digital billboards and installations this year, and here is just one example to help kick it all off. Autism Speaks has created a Kinect powered digital billboard featuring a life size girl who avoids eye contact no matter how hard you try. The [...]
Continue reading...30. December 2011
Hyundai have created the world’s largest iPhone controlled racing game in New York’s Times Square. Users simply have to register with the “Hyundai Race” and download the app to get a turn to control the car on a giant digital billboard using their iPhone. The game features the Veloster hatchback which is controlled by the [...]
Continue reading...22. December 2011
Here’s a great Christmas campaign from Vodafone Ireland, bringing together social media, projection mapping and street art to encourage their Facebook community to hit the streets. Vodafone enlisted digital agency Cybercom to help them create something different this Christmas. The experience started with “Make Someone Happy” on the Vodafone Playground Facebook page which, over the [...]
Continue reading...26. October 2011
Nike is doing something a little different with projection mapping for the new Jordan Melo M8 shoe, this time throwing in water, in fact the whole thing is projected onto water fountains, which perfectly complement the movement and desired effects to create something pretty special for your eyes… Sure, there isn’t any interactivity as we’ve [...]
Continue reading...12. September 2011
No digital elements on this billboard installation, but it’s just as good, I promise! Warner Bros. Pictures Canada created a unique outdoor installation merging science with advertising to create some added hype around the new release “Contagion” where the name speaks for itself! It’s a great take on a normally traditional space, and even though [...]
Continue reading...15. August 2011
SuperWall I hear you say? Yep, well that’s what they are becoming known as in some parts anyway, that aside, you’ll want to see this very cool interactive superwall in New York City, on 34th street. It’s for Cinemax’s new show called “Strike Back” and will run for the entire month of August. The SuperWall [...]
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31. October 2014
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