The National Portrait Gallery’s largest acquisition of portraits of Afro-Caribbean sitters has gone on public display for the first time in Black is the New Black: Portraits by Simon Frederick a new display at the Gallery. The display brings together exceptional figures from the world of politics, business, culture, religion and science, photographed by artist […]
The independent creative agency CULT has launched its first ever Amazon Alexa and Google Home voice app, Mindscape. Created to offer front-line support to people suffering from anxiety or a panic attack, Mindscape was released today and is the first product created by CULT Experiment, the agency’s new offering – an innovation lab dedicated to […]
Rovio Entertainment is thrilled to announce the development of a revolutionary new augmented reality (AR) app that is set to seamlessly connect Rovio licensed products with the digital Angry Birds universe. The new app in the pipeline, codenamed ‘Project Magic’, will transport consumers into a breathtaking new world, allowing them to engage in highly immersive branded […]
Less than four months after it killed off its Yahoo Messenger product, Verizon-owned Oath is introducing a new messaging platform called Yahoo Together. Designed for group chats between family, friends and interest groups, the platform allows users to separate out conversations into different topics, similar to IRC chat. “Have you ever been in a group SMS […]
Gismart, creators of the world’s No.1 beat making app, Beat Maker Go, has officially launched its latest title Piano Crush – which has already reached the No.1 spot in the music category across App Store around the world including the US. Piano Crush – available now for iOS and Android devices – lets users play songs on […]
Google’s latest app gives Android users the ability to control every aspect of their device in a purely hands-free manner using just their voice. Designed to help individuals with health issues such as Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, arthritis or spinal cord injuries – and those that have their hands full – Voice Access gives […]
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has launched a checkout-free mobile payment service to speed up the buying experience in a small number of its stores. ‘Mobile, Pay, Go’ is a feature within the M&S iPhone app which enables customers to scan products as they go and then pay from their device using Apple Pay or a […]
easyJet, one of Europe’s leading airline, launched Look&Book image search, a first for the travel industry, which allows customers to instantly book a flight based on a photo, without them even needing to know the destination. The ground-breaking new feature works like this: if you’re browsing Instagram, and you see somewhere amazing that you […]
Spotify is celebrating its growing library of podcasts on International Podcast Day on 30th September 2018 with a one-day Twitter campaign developed by media agency UM, in collaboration with creative agency Byte and tech platform Blue Robot. On 30th September, Spotify will be owning Twitter’s most premium product, First View, where the first promoted tweet […]
Snapchat has rolled out self-serve shoppable ads to all advertisers, as it looks to up its eCommerce revenues with a multitude of updates. The move shows the company is increasing both the sophistication and utility of its Snap ads vertical formats for potential brand partners, removing friction in the process. Having launched shoppable AR lenses in April, […]