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Tesco in South Korea has created a virtual store in the subway to let superduper busy people shop with their mobile phones. Shoppers use their phones to capture QR codes printed on the posters of supermarket aisles to buy household essentials. Sales jumped by 130% during the campaign, pushing Homeplus to t...

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...Right kids? Another Chrome experiment, with physics and sound.Draw a line that the ball will bounce on. Make a series of lines to make a Brian Eno-esque concept album.http://balldroppings.com/js/?2

Where sales promotion creates activity to attract shoppers via rational advantages, such as BOGOFs, brand promotion is promotional activity that works at the other end of the scale, attracting shoppers to the emotional values of your brand. If you get them right, brand promotions drive sales as hard as any direct sales promotion. But their real target is to ...

These technology-driven changes in the shopper experience are making space for some amazing possibilities in retail design. The high street retail environment is starting to be reinvented. From Sainsbury’s Fresh Kitchen and lastminute.com’s pop-up store, to Mercedes World and of course, the media darling Apple. Read more

Technology plays its usual role as a catalyst for change, both aggravating the problem, and proposing a solution. Sales promotions rely in part on your shoppers having imperfect information. If your shoppers knew that discounts on one brand are balanced out by higher margins on other products, then they could theoretically buy at discount and avoid exception...

For the traditional high street retailer, the bait on the hook of promotional marketing was always some sort of sales promotion and for many it still is – especially in these tough trading conditions. So major retailers on the high street or on the Internet will always need to run sales promotions. Market and competitive forces require it, and why else...

Those clever buggers at North Kingdom, Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin (google labs) have produced an Interactive 3d music video for Rome (Jack Whites new collaboration band) the video fuses 3d runtime graphics and video in you browser using Web GL a bleeding edge browser technology.Very Impressive and ground breaking, but a bit sluggish unless you have an uber f...

It doesn't make it a better game, but I guess there's a point somewhere in there.http://chrome.angrybirds.com/(Chrome only.)

Promotional Marketing is undergoing a quiet revolution. As a result, there are some amazing gains to be made by the modern, future-facing high street retailer - but only if we understand what’s changed, and only if we are prepared to adapt our plans accordingly. The changes have been driven by the interplay of four factors, only one of which is commonl...

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Font nerd alert! Here’s a three-dimensional way to express your love of letters.The Fontable, designed by Alessandro Canepa and Andrea Paulicelli is a new concept featuring letters A-Z in lower and uppercase as well as the numbers 0-9. Each table is made from a single sheet of steel in white

Mmm... pac man... only bigger. Goodbye, day.http://worldsbiggestpacman.com/

  http://www.youtube.com/user/skittlespage Use your finger. Now put it back.

Has Promotional Marketing become the poor cousin of the marketing family? There have been some impressive coming-of-age moments for some of the other Marketing family members. Shopper Marketing has grown up to become a scientist, playing a vital role in prioritising and organising the shopping experience. Digital Marketing has matured from upstart newcomer ...

Take a simple pattern, like the London Underground, and find pictures in it. If it worked for Absolut Vodka, I'm guessing it will work for a flamingo too. Subway Animals « Whitezine | inspire Create and Share Read more

Amazing 6 year old Jack is raising funds for the Sick Kids Hospital by offering to draw anything you ask:http://jackdrawsanything.com

This is a quick spoof on the ikea-cats commercial. It was done by the super creative Danny Latham-Symes and the imaginative Dan Noller, as an ad for the 2011 Chip Shop Awards. www.chipshopawards.com

Things don't have to be digital to be nice, do they. "Sohei Nishino walked the city of London on foot for a month, wandering the streets and recording im...