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Gini

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:44:12 +0000

Idea Space

An app to manage the process of innovation and creativity

The creative process is tricky to describe and pin down - an incredible idea could come from a flash of genius or years of dedicated work. Gini, the new iPad app from Gee Thomson (full disclosure…

Failure Is Fine As Long As It's Fast

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:04:04 +0000

AT&T Foundry

AT&T's VP of Ecosystem & Innovation talks to Contagious about how the company breeds successful innovation in its Foundry

Now / Next / Why London

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:36:07 +0000

Where you need to be next week

Now / Next / Why is the annual Contagious forum

Lynx Harnesses the Power of Social TV

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:33:06 +0000

Opinion

Lynx community manager Alex Willimott on how the brand's feisty approach to social media helped it deal with a potentially tricky situation

When a TV show opens with grainy (but graphic) footage of people having sex in public, and then a man touts the benefits of your FMCG brand in relation to his (questionable?) sexual exploits, tha…

The Fox Problem

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:49:38 +0000

Live Social Broadcast

A new show broadcasts live via Google+ Hangout, interacting with fans on social media

A new UK broadcast show called The Fox Problem is looking to leverage the power of social media by connecting with fans in realtime throughout each episode. But not on television. Instead, the show…

Heinz

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:37:16 +0000

Heinz Beanz Flavour Experiences

Heinz unveils musical spoons and bespoke bowls for baked beans

Heinz has tasked 'food architects' Sam Bompas and Harry Parr with creating a quirky set of themed bowls and musical spoons to celebrate the launch of the brand's flavoured baked beans range. For th…

KFC

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:18:08 +0000

Fast Track App

Fast food chain launches finger lickin' quick mobile app

KFC has launched a mobile app so customers can order their meal using their smartphone to by-pass the queue in-store. Once downloaded, the KFC Fast Track app uses geolocation to find the nearest KF…

Art Directors Club

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:31:42 +0000

2013 Festival

Contagious' Nick Parish goes to South Beach to catch up on ad craft

Where does a celebration of craft fit in today's advertising industry? That's what the Art Directors Club answered last week in South Beach, where it convened its 92nd annual awards and first-ever…

Beats by Dre

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:01:59 +0000

#showyourcolor

Contagious speaks to James Temple, ECD at R/GA London, to get the full story on the headphone brand's rapid rise

Not only did Beats by Dre account for 80% of all premium headphone sales in the US during the 2012 holiday season but the brand reached 180 countries, an impressive feat for a relative newcomer…

The Future of Twitter

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:34:36 +0000

Event

Twitter's UK director Bruce Daisley on how to get the most from 140 characters and what's next for the social platform

The micro-blogging site Twitter has made some recent moves beyond its 140-characters. In a fireside chat with Albion's Glyn Britton this week, Bruce Daisley, the UK's director of Twitter, spoke about…

Berlin School

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:24:50 +0000

Contagious Berlin School Scholarship for Creative Leadership Launches

Contagious and the Berlin School team up to offer a €20,000 scholarship for Creative Leadership towards the School's part-time global Executive MBA

Contagious is delighted to announce the launch of its scholarship which will offer one of our readers the chance to participate in the prestigious Berlin School Executive MBA in Creative Leadersh…

New Museum

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:45:05 +0000

Recalling 1993

New York museum uses payphones to transport pedestrians back to 1993

To promote its recently-opened retrospective, NYC 1993, the New Museum has turned more than 5,000 payphones in New York City into analogue time machines, transporting residents and tourists back 20…

Global Ads Chart

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:55:47 +0000

March 2013

David Waterhouse, head of content at Unruly Media, finds that reactions to experiential stunts dominate this month's chart

Members of the public were the undoubted stars of the Unruly Viral Video Chart last month.From mock murders to the most testing of test drives, a quarter of the top 20 most shared ads during March we…

V/Line

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:39:28 +0000

Guilt Trips

Regional train service in Australia proves there's nothing as powerful as a mother's guilt

Challenge / Australian train operator for the Melbourne and Victoria region V/Line wanted to boost leisure travel and increase the number of trips made by people visiting friends and relatives (VFR).…

Decoded

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:03:40 +0000

Social Data in a Day

Alex Jenkins gets down and dirty with development and social data

At the end of last year, Contagious sent our Insider consultant and coding noob Ed White along to Decoded, the programming collective, to see if the team could make good on their promise to teach a…