It’s an advent calendar but from the 24th it will use Google maps to track the big man as he does his thing around the world. Developed by Google, with a little help from Santa’s elves, the Santa Tracker features numerous activities within Santa’s Village while Santa prepares for his global journey. Read more…
Christmas Experiments is an advent calendar which feature digital artists from the creative coding community and their web experiments each day leading up to Christmas Enjoy. Read more…
Everywhere I turn I see digital agency folk leaving their salary jobs to create start ups. And why shouldn’t they? They got the skills to create a digital product or service. So if they are willing to shoulder the risk, there’s not much stopping them. Two ex-colleagues from my Razorfish days are about to bet it all on connected devices and bicycle riding. Read their story and please help them get their fabulous idea produced for the real world! Read more…
Accidents involving drivers on the phone have been on the rise, especially those who text and drive. Of all distracted driving activities, texting has the longest eyes-off-the-road time. MINI Singapore wants to help spread the word against this bad habit. Rather than a straightforward ad or Facebook post, which is liable to be overlooked by jaded viewers, they created the MINI TEXTRACER game. Read more…
Launching the Lumia Selfie Phone, with a highly un-selfish collection of selfies from Nordic fashionistas, donating money to charities (they aim to inspire and directly support the fight against online bullying in the Nordic countries), from every image and GIF using Tumblr’s API. Read more…
Don’t you just love a speedy social brand reaction to a real-time event? - think Oreo with the Super Bowl blackout. Does your agency take hours to respond to the latest trending hashtag or celebrity death? Is your brand missing out on being part of the conversation because you’re reacting too slow? … this is gold. Made by john st. Read more…
Sam and Monty are the very best of friends. Sam thinks he knows just what Monty is dreaming of for Christmas… something that will make one little penguin’s perfect Christmas day. John Lewis does it again. Read more…
According to recent studies, more and more people are searching health information via Google. Not without danger, because googling symptoms often makes it worse. People end up at platforms with unreliable comments and sometimes downright wrong advice. The Belgian medical site Gezondheidenwetenschap.be wanted to address this with a campaign on the internet itself. Read more…
I’m sure there are many brands that get into the Halloween fun. Here is one example from KFC in Australia. I’d imagine it would be pretty hard to get ideas like this through the brand police. Good to see KFC having fun and getting in the spirit. Have you seen any others?? Read more…
This latest video clip from OK GO won’t let you down. Apart from the beautiful visual effects the organisation behind this continuous one-shot 5 minute video clip is impressive. You can get more detail about the production on The Japan Times. I would have loved to see the PPM!
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