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It is not every day that you get to become Creativepool's top ranked digital agency. The folks at AKQA are all incredibly talented and work hard to make sure their unique voice is heard in the industry, and no one year passes without them sharing...
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AKQA has been a big part of the Creativepool community in one form or another since its initial inception. The agency has been a Creativepool member since 2013 and has been behind dozens of featured projects and award-winning Annual entries over the...
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AKQA has invited the top 10 construction equipment companies of the world to adopt its new open source software to protect nature reserves from destruction. Despite their protective status, one third of the areas are under threat from human...
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“It’s like living in an amazing house with your best friends,” say Diego Machado and Hugo Veiga, executive creative directors at AKQA São Paulo, about what it’s like to work at their studio known as 'AKQA Casa'. The...
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Global award encourages students to create tomorrow by going beyond the limits of today AKQA announced the winners of Future Lions, the official student awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Future Lions attracted more...
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Arsenal FC has become the first Premier League club to launch an Amazon Alexa Skill that will allow fans to live stream matches. Skills are Alexa’s in-built capabilities that enable users to interact with devices, like Amazon Echo and Echo Dot,...
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Announcing the 12th year of AKQA’s global student competition in collaboration with Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. This year, Future Lions is calling on enquiring minds without limit. Those who are willing to look beyond...
Posted by: Ian Wharton
Third Age Creativity: The future of the creative world by Duan Evans, International Executive Creative Director at AKQA Think for a second - what do you think is the most amazing thing created by mankind? Is it a city like New York, or a single...
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Imagination, technology, art, and science fuse together at the heart of the international agency, AKQA. Founded 22 years ago in London by Ajaz Ahmed, the agency has seen significant growth in this time, boasting over 2,000 global employees and 21...
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Third Age Creativity: The future of the creative world by Duan Evans, International Executive Creative Director at AKQA Think for a second - what do you think is the most amazing thing created by mankind? Is it a city like New York, or a single...
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The new Nike Hypervenom 3 is being marketed as the “ultimate finishers football boot,” and to put it to the test, Nike created the “Strike Night” campaign to herald the launch of the all black boots with a head-to-head finishing competition...
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To celebrate its 70th anniversary, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is inviting everyone to Be Part of the Story; a campaign that highlights the craft behind the world’s greatest art in motion. The campaign extends the...
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Retro is very much 'in' right now. Many have reasoned that this might be because we're living through some particularly troubling times both politically and culturally, so it's natural to look back to better, brighter times through rose tinted...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In celebration of Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s 50th anniversary of their songwriting partnership, Sir Elton John has collaborated with AKQA, Pulse Films and YouTube to create a global competition to give undiscovered creative talent from all...
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With the proliferation of modern distractions like mobile phones, tablets and games consoles demanding the face time of children across the world, the simple, elegant art of the children’s book has been all but lost in the mobile era, which is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This month will see the launch of an ambitious project to bring Sir David Attenborough’s breath-taking archive of nature documentaries to a new generations of fans who have just discovered the great man via the BBC's Planet Earth. The Story of Life...
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Every day, millions of selfies are posted and shared, without a thought given to the risks they may pose, with advances in technology turning every camera and every selfie into a potential data mine ripe for hackers to excavate. To capitalise on this...
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Activision has teamed up with AKQA to launch a unique bot experience on Facebook Messenger for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Through Messenger, COD fans will be given a guided tour through space; they’ll visit the awesome planetary environments...
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Jamie Oliver has partnered with AKQA to create one of the first Amazon “Alexa Skills” in the UK. For those who haven't been following Amazon's foray into internet of things domination, “Alexa” is the name given to the AI that forms to core of...
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Google France has unveiled the first episode of Curio-Cité, a series of films, immersive 360° VR video masterclasses and live events allowing people to jump head first into the world of urban exploration (colloquially known as “Urbex”) in...
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The Black Cab Interviews have flown all the way from London to Singapore just in time for Spikes Asia - Singapore’s Festival of Creativity, in collaboration with Jones Knowles Ritchie, supported by Cogs Agency and with production support by 90...
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The socially responsible lifestyle brand Lokai recently launched “Walk with Yeshi,” a first of its kind immersive journey built specifically for Facebook Messenger that provides the global community with a completely new way to experience...
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“Go Live, Go Ride: Harley-Davidson Weekend Ride” is an online-based campaign developed by AKQA that gives people the chance to ride one of the brand’s iconic bikes for a full weekend. The campaign aims give Japan's notoriously...
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Michael Tomes sat poolside with Ian Wharton, Group Creative Director at AKQA, post announcement of the winners of Future Lions. Future Lions is in it’s 11th year at Cannes, the brief sets students from all around the world the challenge to...
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Eurostar, the high-speed rail service linking the UK and mainland Europe, is launching a new above the line campaign designed to showcase Eurostar’s service benefits and features of the new state-of-the-art fleet, which started service in...
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Sir David Attenborough At 90! To mark the 90th birthday of the iconic broadcaster Sir David Attenborough (May 8 in case you were wondering), BBC Earth has announced an ambitious new digital project called “The Story of Life.” The story...
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In what may very well be the ultimate targeted marketing campaign, AKQA spent an entire weekend mounting a calculated assault on one Call of Duty (colloquially known as COD amongst fans and detractors alike) game in order to promote the next game in...
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AKQA has managed to retain its Audi digital business following a lengthy review process. Audi is also currently looking for a separate agency entirely to handle its social media business, as the company looks to further modernise its marketing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The world of professional Basketball and 21st century sports technology in general took a dramatic leap into the future recently with the unveiling of the world's first interactive, touch-sensitive LCD basketball court in Shanghai, China. The court...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A new digital project by AKQA seeks to “Explore the stories of Levi wearers” and invite users to add their own. “Live In Levi's” is a digital experience that has been designed to “Engage and activate the expansive global...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
What would Instagram be like with a soundtrack? This is the question that the new social network Tunepics hopes to answer. With the help of the newly released iOS app, users can match a song to every image they share, with tracks pulled from the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a new ad spot from AKQA London and Mind's Eye director Luke Bellies for Oreo, the legendary cookie company is asking their fans to “Lick for it,” whenever conflicts arise. The ad reveals pairs of friends and siblings arguing over...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
AKQA has developed a unique online campaign to promote Ubisoft's upcoming multi-platform, open-world action adventure game, Watch Dogs. The campaign aims to explore how technology can expose data by creating a digital footprint from public (and yet...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday, AKQA received perhaps the highest accolade that it's possible for a UK business to receive; The Queen's Award for Enterprise. AKQA, a digital company with over 1500 employees and offices across the world (in Europe, the Americas and Asia)...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
AKQA is hosting the Future Lions competition for the ninth year in a row, in partnership with the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The competition (which counts Google amongst its partners) challenges young minds in the creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
If a fair proportion of the mainstream legacy media were to be believed, TikTok represents a very real threat to our children. In reality though, anyone that’s ever spent even a little time scrolling through the app will tell you it is, in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns