Google launches FaceTime competitor, video-calling app Duo

Google launches FaceTime competitor, video-calling app Duo

During its developer conference this year, Google announced two new apps designed to take on incumbents in video calling and chat: Duo and Allo. Perhaps the fastest and most accurate way to describe Duo is as a cross-platform FaceTime competitor. Duo’s pitch is that it’s simple and will work on both iOS and Android, even […]

Case Study: Voice Command Recipe App for Philadelphia Cream Cheese

Case Study: Voice Command Recipe App for Philadelphia Cream Cheese

Philadelphia is the leading brand in the cream cheese category in Brazil. Its campaign promotes cooking therapy: the moment when your friends gather around the stove and make special memories while cooking. To establish that purpose, the Mondelez brand needed a recipe app, teaching fans how to prepare recipes with the cream cheese. Since there […]

R/GA And Interpublic’s New Venture: Seeking The Next Great Marketing Tech Startup

R/GA And Interpublic’s New Venture: Seeking The Next Great Marketing Tech Startup

[Photo: Flickr user Takashi Hososhima] The Marketing Tech Venture Studio is billed as an advanced accelerator targeting startups in messaging, AI, bots, and machine learning. Over the last few years, advertising agency R/GA has taken its leadership and innovative approach to digital technology into the startup world by partnering with companies such as German retailer […]

SS+K’s New BFF Trump Bot for Facebook Messenger Speaks in Donald’s Own Words

SS+K’s New BFF Trump Bot for Facebook Messenger Speaks in Donald’s Own Words

The app, developed by messaging bot platform Dexter, aims to inform young voters of Trump’s divisive opinions Donald Trump’s positions change so often that the simple task of asking, “Wait, did he really say that?” can be exhausting. Agency SS+K and messaging bot platform Dexter have brought his most hurtful, damaging, and hate-filled messages into […]

Metro Trains Melbourne launches new Dumb Ways JR app via Millipede to keep kids safe

Metro Trains Melbourne launches new Dumb Ways JR app via Millipede to keep kids safe

Metro Trains Melbourne is campaigning to keep littlies safe with Madcap’s Plane, a play-based learning app released today via Millipede. Madcap’s Plane is the third app instalment since the March launch of Dumb Ways JR – a spinoff of the hugely successful Dumb Ways to Die public safety campaign via McCann Melbourne. Little ones join […]