Chris Monaco

Instagram Stories get a cool feature that Snapchat doesn't have

Instagram really wants you to use its Snapchat clone.<p>Not Stories, but its <i>other</i> Snapchat clone: Direct (that's the name for Instagram's disappearing …

Best New Apps: Overcast for iPhone

Instapaper's creator returns with your new favorite podcast app<p>If you have an iPhone, you should download Overcast, the new podcast app from Instapaper creator and Tumblr co-founder Marco Arment. Podcast clients are a crowded category, of course, and it's harder than ever to stand out now that …

Chiquita banana branding to adorn London’s taxis and buses

Chiquita-branded bananas will be everywhere from July 14 as a summer promotional campaign kicks off in the capital.<p>For four weeks, 300 cabs and five …

Facebook Awards

The 2017 Winners<p>Here it is—the winning work that made us feel all kinds of feelings this year. Discover the work that made us laugh, cry, love, wow …

GE Healthcare Is Releasing a 30-Minute Documentary on Instagram, a Minute at a Time

While traveling through India, Africa and Southeast Asia, GE Healthcare’s president of sustainable healthcare solutions, Terri Bresenham, wanted to …

How Marketers Can Use Real-Time Ads to Get More Out of Existing Investments

Making new ad technology work for your brand doesn't have to mean making new content. Alexis Cox shares how Google's Art, Copy & Code project applied …

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KFC Made a Weird Animatronic Harland Sanders Robot to Take Your Drive-Thru Order

Wieden + Kennedy is back with another bot.<p>Six weeks after unveiling an animatronic sea creature for Old Spice’s S.Q.U.I.D. campaign, W+K wants you to …

Oreo Is Sending Experimental Flavors, From Kettle Corn to Avocado, to Individual Fans

Oreo has been producing strange spin-off cookie flavors for a while from its “Wonder Vault.” (Remember Firework Oreos?) But the experimentation is …

Missed the WWDC 2017 Keynote? Here Are Apple's 9 Biggest Announcements | WIRED

• Author: Arielle Pardes. Arielle Pardes Gear<br>• Date of Publication: 06.05.17. 06.05.17<br>• Time of Publication: 5:07 pm. 5:07 pm<p>Everything Apple Announced …

Why KFC Paid to Put Colonel Sanders in an Obscure California High School Yearbook

It’s hard to reach young people with advertising, especially in print. But one publication you know they consume obsessively is their high school …

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Automakers Race to Get Ahead of Silicon Valley on Car-Sharing

SEATTLE — On a recent overcast afternoon in this city’s Belltown neighborhood, a driver pulled up in a gleaming new BMW X1 sport utility vehicle just a few minutes after a few swipes of a smartphone app had summoned it.<p>This was not a car dispatched by Uber or Lyft, the two tech companies that are …

Walmart is testing its own AmazonFresh grocery pickup competitor

Just a few weeks after Amazon opened its drive-up grocery pickup service in Seattle, it looks like Walmart is trialling its own version of the concept with a new automated kiosk at a store in Oklahoma City. The service, which doesn’t seem to have any special name as of yet, lets Walmart customers …

MIT's $10,000 robotic furniture is making its way to small homes

A few years ago, MIT designed a piece of furniture worth $10,000 -- not because it's made of luxury materials, but because it can transform at the press of a button. Now, that piece of robotic furniture called "Ori Systems" is available for pre-order, but only to large-scale development companies. …

LeBron James talks about being a first-generation money maker and betting on himself

<i>Chase and UNINTERRUPTED have partnered to create "Kneading Dough," a series of intimate and honest conversations with professional athletes about how</i> …

McDonald's pulls 'shameful' dead dad TV advert after social media backlash

McDonald’s has pulled its latest TV advert following a social media outcry.<p>Dozens of people criticised McDonald’s for being “cynical and …

Volkswagen "Ashes" (2017) 1:30 (USA)

Set to a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "America," this incredibly depressing ad starts with an older Irish woman reading the last wish letter of her …

Delta Painted Exotic Locales on a Brooklyn Wall for Singles to Snap Selfies Like They’re World Travelers

Here’s one of the coolest airline campaigns you’ll see aimed at folks who are too impecunious to actually fly anywhere.<p>Delta Air Lines, with help …

Explore The Hidden Worlds of our National Parks

website<p>Explore The Hidden Worlds of our National Parks<p>https://g.co/nationalparks<p>Follow rangers on a journey to places most people never go in …

WebVR Experiments

Norman<p>by James Paterson<p>Access Mars<p>by Google Creative Lab + NASA JPL<p>Origami Simulator<p>by Amanda Ghassaei<p>VIVID<p>by UNIT9<p>Song Exploder Presents: Inside …

Pepsi wants you to scan and win with Snapchat to celebrate new Fire drink

Pepsi is using <i>Snapchat</i> to promote its new limited-edition beverage, Pepsi Fire, and give fans the chance to win a range of prizes.<p>Pepsi Fire arrives …

How Airbnb plans to help refugees find shelter

Airbnb has come up with a way to help refugees, evacuees, and other displaced people.<p>In order to meet its five-year goal to provide free short-term …

Peanut

Our mission<p>At Peanut, we see motherhood as an adventure in the life of a woman. The best chapter in your book, but not the only one. Just because you …

If You Tweet a Bee Emoji at Pandora, You Can Listen to Beyonce’s Station

Last month, Pandora launched a big, splashy ad campaign promoting Pandora Premium—the streaming service’s on-demand subscription product. For the …

Nike’s New Bandages for Kids Double as Comic Strips About Athletes Who Fall but Get Up

Remember those stickers the doctor would give you to make you feel “all better” about getting a shot? For Children’s Day, Nike is kinda doing the …

Facebook launches ‘disaster maps’ to provide vital data in the midst of a crisis

In an effort to bridge the gap between obtaining crucial information quickly during a crisis and acting accordingly, Facebook has announced the …

Remember the Facebook poke? Well, it’s back in the form of a ‘Hello’

If ever there was a calling card for the digitally annoying, it was the Facebook poke. Momentarily ubiquitous, painfully easy to execute, and …