15 Biometric Authentication Innovations – From Facial Recognition Fast Food Kiosks to Mobile ATMs (TOPLIST)

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Unilever Foundry: startups and corporates will work under same roof by 2025

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IPA 'open-minded' to accepting management consultancy members

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Oath: Forget being the third force… we want to be number one

Three months after Verizon brought the AOL and Yahoo businesses together to form Oath, its chief revenue officer and president of ad platforms are bursting with confidence.

Naruhodo #96 – Desafio Naruhodo: Quem está mentindo?

Enigma enviado por um ouvinte: você sabe dizer qual personagem da história está mentindo? *** ATENÇÃO: só valem respostas por email — e, por favor, NÃO coloquem dicas, spoilers ou soluções nos comentários. Combinado? Mais: a resolução do desafio do episódio #87, o enigma do bar. E, claro, os comentários dos ouvintes. Confira tudo isso […]

> LEIA MAIS: Naruhodo #96 – Desafio Naruhodo: Quem está mentindo?

WakeApp: Bus Pillow, 3

The texture of Paraguayan buses are quite particular, colorful and easy to recognize for everyone.

We developed a graphic campaign taking this observation as starting point to communicate an app that allow people to sleep on the bus without fear of falling asleep.

Sunday NFL Ratings Fall 13% as Irma Slams Into Florida


Just hours before the NFL kicked off its first Sunday of game-day action in 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm, plunging millions of Sunshine State residents into darkness and sending millions more scrambling to the Weather Channel and CNN.

While the league hoped a strong Week 1 schedule would help wash away the overarching narrative of last season, when ratings dropped 8 percent, Irma had other ideas. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day ratings, all local and national TV windows (i.e., the 1 p.m. ET broadcasts on CBS and Fox, the Fox late-national game and NBC’s “Sunday Night Football”) were down 13 percent in total viewers compared to the year-ago results.

One of the two high-profile Sunday games managed to reverse the curse, however, as NBC’s prime-time Giants-Cowboys broadcast averaged 24.4 million viewers, marking a 6 percent increase compared to last year’s analogous Pats-Cardinals game, which drew 23.1 million viewers. Dallas’s 19-3 rout of the G-Men averaged a 13.4 household rating, up 2 percent versus last year’s 13.1 rating.

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Boys don't cry: the changing nature of masculinity

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Project who? Trinity Mirror acquiring Northern & Shell is a masterstroke

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Absolut issues creative call to arms for a better world

Absolut champions the belief that creativity can change the world in a new global campaign launching today.

Chivas Regal's blending experience to return for London Cocktail Week

Chivas Regal, the whisky brand owned by Pernod Ricard, is setting up its blending experience once again during London Cocktail Week.

BMW connected cars will not sell data for in-car ads

BMW head of digital products and services Dieter May says that although connected cars have created a new digital platform, the company will tread carefully with the data.

John Lewis Partnership profits down 53% after spike in costs

Profits before tax at John Lewis Partnership fell by 53.3% to £26.6m for the first six months of the year as costs increased as part of reorganising the business.

Morrisons profit up 40% as supermarket 'steers own path'

Morrisons’ recovery continues to gather momentum, with the UK’s fourth largest supermarket reporting a 40% boost in first-half pre-tax profit to £200m and a seventh consecutive quarter of sales growth.

BBR Saatchi & Saatchi & Carlsberg Proudly Present: A Watch Pack Fit For A King

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There is nothing like getting nice and cozy to watch your favorite TV series. This is true tenfold when it’s the season’s last episode. Whether you like watching the episode alone or with friends it is definite cause for celebration and some extra special nosh. But in some countries being a loyal fan of a TV series may mean getting up in the early morning hours just to make sure you catch the finale in real time (leaving no room for the classic spoiler Joes of the world).

That’s why ahead of the ‘Game of Thrones’ grand season finale, Carlsberg decided to spoil the series’ most uncompromising fans with awesome watch packs delivered straight to their door.

It pays off to be uncompromising!

Watch our case movie here:

CEO: Yossi Lubaton
CCO: Idan Regev
VP Client Services: Ben Muskal
VP Content & Production: Dorit Gvili
Creative Director: Kobi Cohen
Digital Creative Director: Idan Kligerman
Creative Team: Reut Raz, Nofar Birenbaum
Account Supervisor: Moran Darzi
Account Executive: Dana Mey-Tal
Digital Producer: Maya Palmon
Video Editor: Leehou Porat
Creative Coordinator: Eva Hasson

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