Budget Direct offers virtual ride with ‘Captain Risky’

Budget Direct offers virtual ride with ‘Captain Risky’

Australian insurance firm Budget Direct worked with 303 MullenLowe in Sydney to create a virtual ad-within-an-ad for which gives audiences the chance to ride with Captain Risky as he performs a spectacular double helix jump stunt. This case study looks at how the VR venture got viewers sharing in droves. Case study summary • Insurance […]

Using geolocation, a mobile microsite – Mahou-San Miguel uses online gaming to engage fans ahead of final

Using geolocation, a mobile microsite – Mahou-San Miguel uses online gaming to engage fans ahead of final

Mahou-San Miguel, the most important beer brand in Spain, leveraged its sports sponsorships by hosting an online game for consumers aged 18 to 50 leading up to a football match between two Madrid rivals. This case study looks at how the brand used online gaming to engage fans to reach 10% of Madrid’s population. CAMPAIGN […]

Watford FC and Critical Mass launch world’s most innovative football club website

Watford FC and Critical Mass launch world’s most innovative football club website

Watford FC launches a new digital platform, creating a dramatically different new online home for fans of the Premier League club. The new responsive site, which launches to coincide with the start of the 2016/17 Premier League season, is the result of Watford FC’s first partnership with global digital experience design agency Critical Mass,following a […]

Instagram Unveils New Tools for UK Businesses

Instagram Unveils New Tools for UK Businesses

Instagram has launched a new series of tools for businesses in the UK and across EMEA, bringing developments that have previously been limited to the US to a new wave of brands and marketers looking to use the social network in Europe and beyond. Over 200,000 advertisers now use Instagram to connect with consumers, and […]

The Trade Desk Partners with Spotify and More for Audio Programmatic

The Trade Desk Partners with Spotify and More for Audio Programmatic

Ad tech firm The Trade Desk has partnered with Spotify, Triton Digital and AdsWizz in order to bring fully programmatic digital audio inventory to its customer base. With more consumers than ever before accessing streaming audio via their mobile device, digital audio is a growing channel for advertisers, and programmatic buying can give marketers access […]

Persil partners ‘Uber for laundry’ service ZipJet

Persil partners ‘Uber for laundry’ service ZipJet

Persil has teamed up with mobile dry cleaning service ZipJet, as its owner Unilever continues to expand into mobile commerce. ZipJet was founded in 2014 in Germany, and currently operates in three European cities- Berlin, London and Dublin. The company forges alliances with local launderettes and offers jobs for drivers to deliver freshly laundered and […]

Domino’s beats Pizza Hut to launch Facebook Messenger bot

Domino’s beats Pizza Hut to launch Facebook Messenger bot

Above: Domino’s Facebook Messenger Bot   Image Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat Domino’s is the latest company to embrace the bot revolution, with the launch of a pizza-ordering bot for Facebook Messenger. Launching initially in the U.K. and Ireland only, “Dom” is touted as an “artificially intelligent customer service whiz,” according to the press release, and […]

SpringHill Suites by Marriott Launches First-to-Market Mobile Programmatic Interscroller

SpringHill Suites by Marriott Launches First-to-Market Mobile Programmatic Interscroller

SpringHill Suites by Marriott capitalized on the popularity surrounding mobile video by leveraging a programmatic interscroller format to offer users an immersive tour of a room, resulting in nearly three times higher ad engagement than the benchmark for hospitality brands. The subsidiary of Marriott International teamed up with video advertising and digital display platform Celtra, […]