Burger King brings Augmented Reality to the Banner

Now, It is indeed a good idea to show the viewers what the dollar resting in their pocket can buy and so the Burger King asked the audience to pull it out and put it in front of their web-cam to get the taste of their green-buck

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With this Burger King has become one of the first brands to create an augmented reality banner ad, promoting its $1 Value menu in the US.

Users when hold up a dollar bill to the web cam they get their Augmented Reality Burger.

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Augmented reality has so far been mainly the preserve of mobile applications and websites set up to show off the technology. Well done Crispin Porter Bogusky agency behind much of Burger King’s online work over recent years including a recent lie-detector test and the famous Subservient Chicken campaign.

There are also some surprises if you flip the dollar bill around too much. Nice work, and a good indication of where internet campaigns are going.

The campaign can be tried-out here if you have a $1 bill. No you don’t really need a Dollar Bill just take any paper or note matching the domensions and it works

Anubhav Sharma

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Anubhav Sharma

What Adobe’s Omniture Acquisition Really Means?

Okay, so I absolutely know how fancy the Data is and so more fancier is the content development platform (Adobe) joining hands with a major web-measurement company (Omniture).

$1.8 billion so that now we can mix Art with Numbers and screw that bit as well. Creative Team Shalt not Be Spared.

Josh James said the deal will allow creatives to integrate measurement into the front end of the ad-creation process and that marrying the two companies would improve content engagement, ad effectiveness and the overall user experience that’s driving the shift of ad dollars from offline to online.

For whatever that means…

Ok so Josh James probably was not aware that any reasonably good flash developer could and is been doing this  for ever now. All s/he ever wanted to know was ‘What do you want to track and how do you want it to show up in the reports?‘ and it was fixed in accordance using Guess What? A FREE Analytics tool – now you must have heard of Google! if not others. I am still trying to figure out as to how to react to you saying which said it will improve the User Experience. Till then just know that these banners are like Noise, they always affect (more or less) the User Experience.

Measuring Ad effectiveness (?) smart enough shall cater to age old problem as was quoted by John N. Wanamaker, ‘half the money I spend on advertising is wasted… the trouble is I don’t know which half‘.

Great!

But then what are we really measuring? The CTRs? and that’s where party for you really gets over. I mean you really are approaching the new media with a very old thinking. So it’s going digital for you without getting Digital.

But that’s beside the point. What you need to know is that the Ad Servers were always facilitating this type of thinking – so we would choose  ad server basis the analytical objectives and delivery strategies (different ad servers offering different delivery, analytical and optimization solutions), and make creative to suit.

Sure anything that can be measured more effectively, can definitely be managed/manipulated more effectively and so optimized to increase the overall performance and give better ROI.

Having said that I am really failing to understand that ‘how do you apply analytic to something that has not been created and published yet?‘ So is it really a afterthought or is not?

Omniture toolset is designed for after-the-fact analytics, so how does this help?

I am completely confused hearing what Adobe President-CEO Shantanu Narayen meant when he said ‘For creatives, that means metrics can’t be an afterthought; they’ll need to be part of the content-creation process from the beginning’?

P.S.: Congratulations! I am really looking forward to Art Directors (who already are struggling to keep up with Flash) to be told that now he also needs to tend to the tracking of a campaign while he’s tweaking an action script

Anubhav Sharma