McDonald's UAE built a drive-thru inside driving school to cure Gen Z anxiety
To fix UAE Gen Z's drive-thru anxiety, McDonald's built a life-size working drive-thru in the driving-school circuit and made it an official lesson.
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In 2021 the IMF created $650bn in SDRs — reserves with no debt attached — and allocated them by quota, so all 190 members got instant liquidity.
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Home Centre ran YouTube pre-rolls saying its furniture is in the next ad, turning rivals' productions into its own catalogue for free.
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A virtual frog in the Żappka app made store purchases feed a pet; a third of 7.5M users played it in 2023.
Leer el casoPrinceton's OpenWPM crawled 1M sites and quantified tracking and fingerprinting
Princeton's instrumented-browser census of 1 million sites quantified tracking, fingerprinting, and privacy tools — then released the data
Leer el casoNational Car Rental ran revenue management and avoided liquidation
Facing liquidation, National priced cars like airline seats, adding $56m in first-year revenue and saving the company.
Leer el casoPicnic revived the milkman: fixed-round delivery that made online grocery free
Dutch grocer Picnic ditched on-demand delivery windows for scheduled milkman-style rounds, collapsing cost-per-drop and offering free delivery.
Leer el casoDentsu scanned 90% off-limits Gunkanjima into 3D data that pays for itself
HERITAGE DATABANK digitizes World Heritage sites like Gunkanjima and licenses the 3D data for games and tourism to fund preservation.
Leer el casoMcDonald's Denmark renamed its menu in Counter-Strike slang
For €10,000, McDonald's made gamers the only audience that understood its ads — and reached 110 million potential impressions.
Leer el casoRadix 2^51 limbs beat add-with-carry chains by deferring carries
Splitting 256-bit numbers into five 51-bit limbs keeps adds carry-free and parallel; benchmarks beat 64-bit limbs from just three additions
Leer el casoAmbev re-justified every cost yearly and became the world's low-cost brewer
Zero-based budgeting made Brahma-Ambev managers defend each expense from zero every year, turning cost discipline into the company's growth engine.
Leer el casoPedigree teased a mystery AI 'best friend', then revealed it matches adoptable dogs
A cryptic AI campaign took over São Paulo, then revealed Melhoramigo.ai — a chat that matches would-be owners with shelter dogs by compatibility.
Leer el casoXbox turned seven Game Pass titles into audio 'field trips' that teach while you play
McCann London's Spotify journeys layer lessons from teachers and psychologists onto games like Minecraft and Sea of Thieves; two Cannes 2024 shortlists.
Leer el casoEmbrapa turned Brazil's acid Cerrado into a soy superpower with lime and rhizobia
Brazil's savanna was too acidic to farm. Embrapa fixed the soil chemistry, bred tropical soybeans and gave up nitrogen fertilizer entirely.
Leer el casoElgiganten let gamers buy electronics with Counter-Strike skins
GamePay converted locked in-game assets into fee-free store vouchers at DreamHack.
Leer el casoMohammed Bah Abba beat desert food spoilage with two clay pots, wet sand and no power
Mohammed Bah Abba beat desert food spoilage with two clay pots, wet sand and no power.
Leer el casoRogers turned its 5G towers into wildfire sensors that detect fires 16 minutes faster
AI sensors retrofitted onto rural telecom towers spot smoke, heat and chemical signs of fire in real time, alerting emergency teams up to 16 minutes sooner.
Leer el casoKFC Romania turned Bucharest's subway map into a permanent drumstick ad
KFC spotted a chicken-leg shape in the Bucharest metro map and turned a public wayfinding asset into discounts, routes and cravings.
Leer el casoMicah Scott replaced LELO's laggy Lyla remote with an open-source sonar controller
When LELO's Lyla was good but its remote lagged and lost range, Micah Scott sniffed the radio protocol and rebuilt the remote around an ultrasonic sensor
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