It’s no surprise that nonprofits operate on shoestring-sized budgets and are constantly working to recruit a new generation of millennial donors. But Water is Life, a charity focused on providing clean water resources, found an interesting way to hack the popular mobile payment app Venmo, which could open the floodgates to creative and stealthy digital […]
The Samsung Blind Cap, a swim cap that vibrates when swimmers get close to the wall to let them know that they need to turn, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Ever since blind swimming became a Paralympic sport over 50 years ago, coaches have been […]
The Straight Outta Compton mobile app, which allows users to modify the Straight Outta Compton Logo to fit their own hometown, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. To promote Universal Pictures‘ film about Dr. Dre’s life, Beats by Dre partnered with R/GA Hustle of Los Angeles […]
The nonprofit organization, MACMA, won a mobile gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, for its innovative campaign to help women learn how to examine themselves for breast cancer. With the help from David Buenos Aires in Argentina, they chose a more unconventional route. MACMA, in partnership with David Buenos Aires, […]
Hashtags for Life, a social media campaign to help expand the Red Cross‘ donor database in Peru, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. With a population of over 30 million people, and yet only 1250 registered blood donors, Peru faced a potential catastrophe incase of emergency. […]
The New York Times in partnership with T Brand Studio, Google, GE, and Mini, won the mobile category’s Grand Prix award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for its integration of virtual reality smart phone technology and Google cardboard headsets to provide its readers with an unprecedented virtual reality experience. NYT has […]
At the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the Swedish Tourist Association along with creative agency INGO Stockholm, won a gold award in the mobile category for their creation of The Swedish Number, which allows people from other countries to call any Swede who has downloaded the Swedish Number App. In 1766, Sweden was the first country […]
WhatsGerman, a language course based on the already existing digital platform, WhatsApp, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. WhatsGerman is a language course that is delivered through the messaging platform WhatsApp, and is directed towards the large number of refugees that entered Germany in 2015. Germany […]
Cancer Research UK scientists have launched a new app, Tumour Takedown, for smartphones and tablets that shows how some cancer treatments work. The new app, developed in collaboration with Centre of the Cell, was unveiled at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. It allows the public to test out three different cancer therapies on a […]
Beer brand Desperados, part of the Brau Union brewery group, has launched a vertical video campaign aimed specifically at mobile consumers, one of the first of its kind to be run in Europe. The campaign, developed by mobile ad tech firm YOC, centres around an understitial vertical video ads that enables a full screen display […]