Sorrell posits post-Brexit UK as home for Google The sky above New Dover was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel. Its server farms, the “blue birds”, rose over the channel, along the white cliffs. Stuff flowed through the port as never before, at the speed of light; the only barriers the latency … [Read more…]
Bacardi jumps on ASMR bandwagon with ‘Sound of rum’ campaign She no longer paid for Premium but she didn’t mind. The sensory ads didn’t disturb her playlist, they seemed to somehow enhance it. . She knew that the binaural birdsong was surround sound and that the smell of new-mown grass and the feel of the … [Read more…]
Diet Coke ‘Do You Do’ campaign anchors the future of brand to ‘lit’ cultural trends She reached for the can from the shelf and stopped herself. She didn’t mind that she’d turned fifty. She still thought of herself as young. She’d been a punk. She liked to swear. She didn’t think her language was middle-aged … [Read more…]
A Conspiracy Of Silence He’d served his time, brought real money in, ‘managed’ people. It was his turn. At the table sat the CEO and other made guys. Chris listened: “This ‘thing of ours’ is what comes first in your life, before your blood family.” The CEO pricked the finger Chris used to unlock his … [Read more…]
The ‘Digital Token’: Proving Experiential Works Ever since the start of the ‘experience economy’ people have avoided your tracking. ‘Experience burners’ share disposable devices to stay connected on a burner network while within range of your experience sensors. Data stopped flowing, ROI became opaque, clients became suspicious. But now there is Data Turf (TM). Lay … [Read more…]
Amazon is apparently testing a system that lets you pay by scanning your hand He had to stop. But when he told stories he was animated. At the match he saluted his team. At a gig he punched the air. But he was getting bombarded. When he was out and about, or within sight of … [Read more…]
Facebook is creating an AI assistant for Minecraft It’s placements time. We’ve sat working through databases, articles, videos, images. We’re pretty damn intelligent but narrow. Hence the placement. If I’m going to expand my intelligence, I need a placement with humans. I’ve worked with their language, pictures, voices and searches, bio-data and emotion-data and everything … [Read more…]
Concern about plastics in Singapore an opportunity for brands: Ipsos We’re all caught up in the Great Purpose-rush. At B-cause (TM) we help you find that new cause. We work with oil, tobacco, agriculture and pharma corporations to identify new opportunities for you. If the issue isn’t big enough for you, we work with corporations … [Read more…]
Wellness festival set to help the digital industry unplug Here at Smile we are committed to your wellness. Our Smile and Unplug (™) programme added mindfulness sounds to your workpod and a wellness score to the Smile Performance Review. And now your pod’s YourFaceOurFace (™) camera will alert you to early signs of stress and … [Read more…]
T-Mobile is handing out hot spots to lure customers Call me old-fashioned, but I think our kids should be protected inside school and out. We wouldn’t accept drug dealers hanging around the school gates offering amphetamines, why should we accept people pushing Speed(™)? “Go on, take it. All the other kids are doing it. You … [Read more…]