Tag: Geotility

Today our friend Alessandro led us by canoe from Gowanus to a patch of wild, green Brooklyn. How did he first learn about it? Google Satellite.

I do wonder when the fast/snack food industry will tap GPS. Lots of interactive ad(venture) campaigns that could help offset obesity under the banner of insert your brandname here.

The good people at Improv Everywhere have just launched the new site Urban Prankster. It will

…feature pranks, hacks, participatory art, flash mobs, and other creative endeavors that take place in public places in cities across the world. If someone does something awesome in the public space, we plan to cover it.

So we’re talking Ikea Dinner Parties, Subway Living Rooms and meta-Protests. Love that. This site is also part of our event capturing zeitgeist. Equally important to the actual is the act of recording + sharing the event. The wedding photographer has supplanted the minister. And even more important than the ‘official’ wedding shooter are the pics from the 25 friends who had digital cameras at the event.

Within the space of brands/adverts, we’ve reached new ground in the past 3 years. The micro, if well executed (the actual, the recording, the distribution), can become macro. Next up is the race to see how this morphs and plays in the mobile space. And I think that events like those we see on Urban Prankster, combined with Big Game/MMO/ARG strategies, is where we’re going.