Update: Pervasive Gaming


Written By Josefine Koehn on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 8:01 PM | In Lifestyle, Technology, USA | Please Comment

Pervasive games extend the gaming experience to the physical world and allow gaming in the streets, offering a combination of tracking and location based interaction.
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We here at CScout are avid gamers. Fortunately we get to see the daylight quite a bit on our global scouting missions. Therefore, we love to hear about games that [...]

Trend: Reality (TV) Camps


Written By Josefine Koehn on Friday, May 26, 2006 at 2:02 AM | In Lifestyle, USA | Please Comment

Forget about swimming or playing golf: While adults train their survival skills in camps with “Fear Factor”, parents are sending their kids to “Money Camp”.

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Summer Camps were always big in the US, as were retreats for employees and managers. But it is not only about fun, recreation, and team-building anymore. Business people and [...]

Update: Interactive Kiosk


Written By Josefine Koehn on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 7:18 PM | In Japan, Lifestyle, Technology | Please Comment

Kiosks are becoming ever more interactive, catering to a variety of services and gadgets.
See our previous Trend: Interactive Kiosk

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Especially in Asia, interactive Kiosks are used to provide entertainment content. Music companies in China make the biggest slice of their revenue by offering downloadable content to mobile subscribers. According to the market consultancy [...]

Update: Hotelroom boutique


Written By Josefine Koehn on Saturday, May 20, 2006 at 10:58 PM | In Lifestyle, Marketing, USA | Please Comment

By partnering with other companies, hotels can offer their guest more than just a bed, jacuzzi and cable tv. While the hotels might win more guests, the companies can actually market their products.
See our previous Trend: Hotelroom-Boutique
Update:

W Hotel and Puma
Starting in the end of May 2006, W Hotels will be the exclusive [...]

CScout visits Q110 – the bank of the future


Written By CScout US on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 5:23 PM | In CScout News, Lifestyle, Technology | Please Comment

Last year Deutsche Bank opened a futuristic pilot store, named “Q110″. The “Deutsche Bank der Zukunft” (German bank of the future) is located at famous Friedrichstrasse in Berlin.
CScout went to visit the innovative subsidiary. “I was positively impressed”, says CScout Managing Director Germany, Monty Metztger. “There were lots of innovative ideas. I can [...]

Trend: Consumer Generated Campaigns


Written By Florian Peter on Friday, May 12, 2006 at 11:32 PM | In Marketing, USA | Please Comment

Consumer Generated Campaigns capitalize on the trend of consumers creating video content and now also advertising.
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Throughout the past months we’ve reported on the trend of consumers creating content such as blogs, podcasts and sharing their self made video files on video portals such as You Tube and Google Video (see Viewer Generated Content) [...]

Adopt a German


Written By CScout on Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 6:09 PM | In Marketing | Please Comment

Puma Launches World Cup Blogs
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Puma’s involvement with this year’s World Cup is further testament to deliver a dual proposition of both performance and lifestyle. Not only have they sponsored a chunk of the participating teams but they’ve also assigned 12 German bloggers to welcome football fans to the host nation’s hustle and [...]

Trend: Lifestyle Traveling


Written By Josefine Koehn on Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at 5:49 PM | In Lifestyle, UK, USA | Please Comment

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Several new innovative travel agencies are creating new experiences for their customers revolving around a lifestyle: be it food, fashion, nightlife or art.
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Paris – Chic Shopping Paris
Chic Shopping Paris is the brainchild of shopaholic & Francophile Rebecca Magniant (picture). Wanting to share her passion and insider tips with friends, she [...]