Universal basic income experiments are popping up all over Europe

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Universal basic income experiments are popping up all over Europe

More Europeans are about to get some free money in the name of economics research.

The European Union is funding a new universal basic income experiment in Barcelona alongside similar tests in Helsinki and the Dutch city of Ultrecht.

SEE ALSO: Could 2017 be the year people take universal basic income seriously?

Around 1,000 low-income households in one of the city's poorest districts will be randomly selected to receive monthly payments of between €400 ($450) and €525 ($590) for two years. All told, the three programs will cost the EU €13 million ($14.7 million).

The study is the latest in a series of research efforts launched across the globe in recent months to put the policy to the test in a real-world setting.   Read more...

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Why the Finals aren't the most important story in the NBA this week

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Why the Finals aren't the most important story in the NBA this week

While the NBA Finals dazzle us all, there's another story playing out in pro basketball, a sinister tale revolving around Turkish center Enes Kanter. 

Kanter's Oklahoma City team was eliminated from the playoffs long ago. But what's happening with him right now is dark. It's troubling. 

And it's something we should all be paying attention to, no matter how seductive it is to simply tune out the real world while we slip into the sweet embrace of these hotly anticipated NBA Finals. 

SEE ALSO: Schea Cotton, the NBA All-Star who wasn't, is finally ready to tell his story

Like LeBron James' powerful comments this week, Kanter's story shows there's really no way of "sticking to sports," as the saying goes, no way of separating these games from a political world that lately seems set to a raging boil.  Read more...

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Anarchist pigeon DGAF about human signage

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Anarchist pigeon DGAF about human signage

Pigeons — they're everywhere and there's nothing you can do to stop them.

SEE ALSO: Girl has hilariously dramatic reaction to discovering pigeon on balcony

A photo shared on the /r/London subreddit proved that these winged beasts DGAF about the rules. 

In the picture taken at London Waterloo station, a smug pigeon defiantly poses next to a sign meant to "pigeon proof" the area. 

If this pigeon could make any other noise aside from hooting, he would definitely be laughing manically. 

Just look at his smug little face.

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WATCH: A snake regurgitated another snake, and both slithered away alive

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In Paris Agreement speech, Trump never acknowledged the reality of global warming

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In Paris Agreement speech, Trump never acknowledged the reality of global warming

As a candidate, Donald Trump said climate change was a hoax, and made fun of Democrats who ranked it as a top tier threat to national security. 

On Thursday, during a speech announcing that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, President Trump managed to do the impossible: Discuss a global warming agreement without ever mentioning whether he believes the problem exists. 

There wasn't a single statement devoted to the reality and seriousness of the issue. Instead, he repeatedly cited his support for a "clean environment," which could mean clean air, clean water, or any number of things other than climate change. Read more...

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Dashcam footage shows dangerous driver getting a big dose of instant karma

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Dashcam footage shows dangerous driver getting a big dose of instant karma

When you're driving through winding country roads and you can't see what's up ahead, overtaking on a corner is never a very good idea.

SEE ALSO: Very sweary supercut shows British drivers have one thing in common

The dashcam footage above was recorded by British YouTuber Kookoocachu last week. In the clip she's heading along a country lane when another driver comes belting past, swerves round a tight bend, and comes dangerously close to flipping their car over.

It's worth having the sound on just for the sweary scolding she gives the guy when she finally catches up with him. Read more...

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Samsung's Bixby is delayed (again) because English is too hard

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Samsung's Bixby is delayed (again) because English is too hard

Galaxy S8 owners are in for a bit longer of a wait before they'll be able to use one of the smartphone's most important features.

Samsung's highly anticipated digital assistant is delayed — again — according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal.  The reason for the delay: English is just too complicated.

SEE ALSO: Samsung's Bixby delivers a scorching hot rap burn on Siri ... if you know how to ask it

The voice-enabled assistant, which has been available in Korea since the smartphone shipped, is "struggling to comprehend English syntax and grammar," according to the report.

"Bixby Voice benefits from time to further enhance natural language understanding, and we are currently growing our user testing in the U.S. to prepare for launch," a Samsung representative said in a statement, noting that other Bixby features, like Bixby Vision, which uses the S8's camera, are already live. Read more...

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Enjoying Deploying: Using Ansible & Capistrano for a Smooth Process

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Enjoying Deploying: Using Ansible & Capistrano for a Smooth Process

Deployment is a messy subject. Between process managers, caching, proxies, databases, etc, trimming 'it works on my machine' down simply to 'it works' is no small task.

There are a ton of ways to go about deploying responsibly - I use git hooks for smaller personal projects, and store my database dumps in the repository itself. Since I'm the only maintainer for these sites, I make database, CMS, and code changes at the same time locally, and then can deploy with one push to get an exact live copy of what I see on my machine.

For NMC as a whole, though, this process isn't viable. When the roles of developer and content editor are decoupled, as they most often are, the two jobs are at odds. The staging or production database is more accessible, and being able to post content immediately to your blog is the whole point of using a content management system - therefore, production is king. There is some debate around whether developing against live data is good practice - in many cases, production data is sensitive and should be isolated from devs. Here at NMC, however, our policy is to develop as closely as possible to the live environment, and that means pulling down realistic data in cases where data sensitivity is not a concern.

So – we need to test code before we deploy to live, but we prefer testing with live data, and our testing should happen in an environment that is as close to production as possible. How do we do it?

Pairing Ansible & Capistrano in NMC's Deploy Process

Let's start with Ansible.

Ansible is all about automated environment duplication. The concept is simple but powerful: author a 'playbook' with a list of steps that you'd like automated, and let Ansible handle the boring stuff. In the context of deployment, we use Ansible to provision our local development environments and our production environments, to ensure that everything from nginx configurations to php settings to databases are repeatable and predictably created and configured. Each of our projects has a dedicated set of playbooks, which are applied whenever our VMs are provisioned, or code is pushed to staging or production (it's important to note that these playbooks are idempotent by design - more on that later).

Automating these steps gets us closer towards one of our main goals - identical dev and production environments. We're trying to ensure that when we develop on a local virtual machine, we're getting results that will be consistent across each dev's local virtual machine, along with the staging and production servers.

Here's a development playbook at a glance:

- hosts: 127.0.0.1
connection: local
become: yes
vars:
app: "APP_NAME"
domain: "APP_NAME.nmc"
ssl: true
devMode: true
env:
"MYSQL_HOST": 127.0.0.1
"MYSQL_PORT": 3306
"MYSQL_USER": "orbeck_of_vinheim"
"MYSQL_NAME": "sorceries"
php:
"max_execution_time": 60
"max_input_time": 60
"memory_limit": 128M
"post_max_size": 50M
"upload_max_filesize": 50M
"max_file_uploads": 2
"timezone": "UTC"
"opcache_memory": 64
"opcache_max_files": 4000
user: vagrant
group: www-data
roles:
- mysql_db
- website
#- { role: wordpress }
#- { role: craft }

The playbook syntax is written in yaml, and is simple to follow - this playbook is for our VM.

First, we're setting variables that will be used later down the line in the various 'roles' that the playbook will run. The roles - mysql_db and website, located towards the bottom - are defined in further yaml files. The mysql_db role does what it says on the tin: handles the creation of both a database and user for the project (if they don't already exist). The website role installs composer dependencies, puts the php and nginx configuration templates into place, and restarts/reloads those services as necessary. We even have dedicated roles for extra steps depending on the type of project we're creating (Wordpress, Craft, etc).

Ansible includes modules for common tasks, like file system manipulation and database installation. Here's an snippet from our mysql_db role, for example:

---
- name: Create db
mysql_db: name=sorceries state=present
notify:
- restart mysql - name: Create db user and grant privs
mysql_user:
name: "{{ user }}"
password: "{{ pw }}"
priv: "{{ db }}.*:ALL,GRANT"
host: "%"
state: present
notify:
- restart mysql

Easy! We define a database name and a state, and then a user, settings, and state.

Similarly, we also have playbooks for our staging and production servers. Just as the development playbooks are run whenever our VM is provisioned, these playbooks are run whenever code is deployed. The other benefit to this approach is that environment configuration becomes easily accessible, and a part of the repository. Changes to the environment become as simple, testable, and deployable as changes to the code base.

So now we've covered how Ansible enables us to automate our environments - but what about the actual act of deploying? And how do we tackle the challenge of developing locally, but against live data?

Enter the other half of our dynamic duo: Capistrano.

Capistrano is also useful for task automation, but we use it primarily to handle deployment and remote code execution on our staging and production servers, through simple ruby tasks. Everything Capistrano tasks do is handled over SSH. The idea is to write a set of steps to handle deployment, and then parametrize the steps for different environments (called 'stages' in Capistrano jargon).

Capistrano's deploy task handles a lot under the hood - when given variables such as these:

set :application, 'application_name'
set :application_type, 'custom'
set :repo_url, "git@gitlab.com:user/application.git"
set :deploy_to, "/var/apps/#{fetch(:application)}"
set :scm, :git
set :keep_releases, 5

Capistrano will deploy to the remote server (defined elsewhere), pulling the specified repo into the :deploy_to location, under the assumption that the repo is a git repository. The last setting, :keep_releases, is for some of Capistrano's secret sauce - when it does a deploy, capistrano keeps track of several 'releases' - previous deploys. The up-to-date, 'live' release ends up in a 'current' directory by default, and older ones are kept in adjacent directories labeled by date. This is tied into another one of Capistrano's advantages - rollbacks.

Deploys are done like so:

cap [stage] deploy.

But what if a new release breaks in the live environment, for whatever reason? Simple -

cap [stage] deploy:rollback.

This task takes care of re-linking the previous release, restoring your app to its last (presumably) working state, so downtime is minimized.

Another cool feature, and one that illustrates how Capistrano and Ansible work together, is hooks - hooks can be used to define whether additional tasks should happen before or after a task is run. For example:

after "deploy:finished", "Ansible:apply"

Straightforward, right? After a deploy happens, run the project's Ansible playbook.

Practically, what that means is a new release of code is pulled from the repository and placed into the 'current' release directory on deploy. Then, Ansible takes care of installing composer dependencies, project-specific php and nginx configurations, creating and databases or users, etc as defined in the playbook.

I'm merely scratching the surface here - Capistrano is extremely powerful, but it's a deep magic, especially for those unfamiliar with Ruby. Luckily, the documentation is quite good.

Beyond automating deploys, Capistrano tasks can also handle one-off tasks on remote servers. Remember that issue with needing to develop locally against live data? To tackle this, we wrote a Capistrano task that's called like so:

cap [stage] db:pull

This command does two things - first, it dumps, zips, and downloads the production database to the local project directory. Then, assuming the VM is running, it installs it into the VM's mysql server. Couldn't be simpler.

Another example,

cap [stage] drupal:files:pull

Pulls down drupal uploads and puts them in place locally on our VM -  we also have a similar task for pulling down wordpress uploads. Again, the idea is to simulate the production environment as closely as possible, so that our code works as expected no matter where it's running. The other bonus, of course, is that when a bug is reported on the live site, simulating the live environment this closely makes diagnosing issues much simpler and more efficient.

Closing Thoughts

 

Remember - the implementations above are just an illustration for how we choose to use these tools. We've got a great development pipeline here at NMC that works for our needs, but our needs aren't everyone's needs. Hopefully, these examples have whet your appetite for some DevOps improvement or experimentation, and piqued your interest in one or both of the tools I've discussed. They're both really powerful, and can and should be applied, with or without other tools, in whatever way suits your needs. Whatever your situation, though, it'd be a mistake to overlook them.

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Airbnb apologizes for tone-deaf teepee ad after backlash from Native American activists

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Airbnb apologizes for tone-deaf teepee ad after backlash from Native American activists

Airbnb is in hot water over its clumsy treatment of Native American culture.

The housing rental service hastily scrubbed an ad from its social media profiles on Tuesday after Native American scholars and activists slammed it for racial insensitivity.

The post featured a listing for an "off-the-grid" teepee, where visitors are promised a "true Sioux style" experience.  

So @Airbnb wants you to "go off the grid...in true Sioux style" this weekendpic.twitter.com/14jmrc5LE3

— Dr. Adrienne Keene (@NativeApprops) May 29, 2017

Never mind that the Joshua Tree, California dwelling is thousands of miles away from the historic territory of the Great Plains-based Sioux.  Read more...

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Asus' Blue Cave router has a gaping hole in it, but manages to look pretty sweet

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Asus' Blue Cave router has a gaping hole in it, but manages to look pretty sweet

There's really no way you could miss the huge blue hole in the centre of Asus' new router.

The rather aptly-named Blue Cave is the Taiwanese tech giant's latest AC2600 dual-band Wi-Fi router.

SEE ALSO: Next-gen Google Home could control your lights and fix your bad Wi-Fi

But there's more to the hole than pure aesthetic design.

Speaking to Mashable on the showfloor of the Computex technology show, an Asus spokesman explained that the antennas of the device are built into the roof, so you'll no longer have those ugly rods sticking out of your router.

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The hole is meant to separate the antennas from the motherboard, which sits at the bottom of the router.  Read more...

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Great white shark leaps into tiny boat, fisherman treats it like NBD

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Great white shark leaps into tiny boat, fisherman treats it like NBD

Welp, I'm never fishing again. 

Terry Selwood was hoping to catch some snapper off the coast of Evans Head in Australia when a great white shark leapt out of the sea and into his boat. 

SEE ALSO: Police chopper warns paddleboarders they're surrounded by 15 sharks

"I caught a blur of something coming over the boat … and the pectoral fin of the shark hit me on the forearm and knocked me down on the ground to my hands and knees," the 73-year-old told the Australia Broadcasting Association. 

The shark measured 9 feet long—a pretty scary sight, considering Selwood's boat was only 15 feet long. 

After the shark jumped aboard, the fisherman called the local marine rescue unit, who picked him up. They later went back for the boat, where they found the deceased shark.  Read more...

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20 Stunning Consumer Services Video Examples

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20 Stunning Consumer Services Video Examples

Consumer services industry is always a challenge and is very dynamic industry to operate in. Companies need to innovative their services and solution, while driving business growth. Video marketing has seen a great response within Consumer Services industry.

In this article we highlight 20 consumer services videos that are awesome to watch and definitely worked for the softwares they represent. Learn from these great consumer services example videos to create an engaging introduction video for your offering. Here we go, enjoy the article :

JP Morgan Chase Consumer Services Video

Whether you’re just starting to invest or need to evaluate your existing strategy, your J.P. Morgan Financial Advisors will help you prioritize your goals and develop an appropriate approach tailored to your situation. Together with a Banker, you’ll receive a powerful combination of banking and investment expertise to help ensure your money is working hard for you. The J.P. Morgan consumer services video talks about the commitment to building long-term relationships and partnering with you over time to help you achieve your important financial goals.

Deutsche Bank Consumer Services Video

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The Bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people. Their services include on-shore investment banking, institutional equities broking, asset and private wealth management, retail banking and business processes outsourcing. The consumer services video shows how Deutsche Bank is a fully integrated financial services provider to corporate, institutional and individual clients.

Ola Consumer Services Video

Ola, India’s most popular mobile app for transportation, integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners onto a mobile technology platform. As one of India’s fastest growing companies we ensure convenient, transparent and quick service fulfilment using technology to make transportation hassle free for everyone. The Consumer Services video explains how Ola is making it easy for employees to manage their travelling.

Jelastic Consumer Services Video

Jelastic offers hosting service providers a complete Platform-as-a-Service and Container-as-a-Service solution that supports Java, PHP, .NET, Node.JS, Python, Ruby and Docker technologies. The consumer services video shows how Jelastic can hasten up the cloud hosting process by delivering a superior turnkey cloud environment at a fraction of the cost.

Palo Alto Consumer Services Video

The Palo Alto Next-Generation enterprise security Platform protects the digital way of life by safely enabling applications and preventing threats across the network, cloud and endpoints. The native integration of the platform delivers a safe architecture providing superior security. The consumer services video walks you through the threats faced by enterprises and how next-generation firewall technology can benefit.

SYNERGi Consumer Services Video

SYNERGi is a SaaS based Cyber Risk Management platform. SYNERGi gives you a single, unified view of your organisation’s whole cyber security landscape across risks, threats, vulnerabilities and controls. The consumer services video acts as an overview of how SYNERGi can get you one view of your entire business.

Exel Consumer Services Video

Exel provide services from a total transportation outsource to helping you find capacity when you have a tough load to move. Its asset-neutral approach allows designing of a transportation solution that leverages multiple modes to ensure your product arrives where it needs to be at the lowest landed cost. The consumer services video shows how Exel helps transform your transportation network into a competitive advantage.

Capita IT Professional Services Video

Capita provides a range of IT solutions and world-class services based around the full Application Lifecycle Model, with information security at its heart, helping companies get the most from their investment in IT while minimising risk and increasing quality. Capita IT Professional Services applies technology to drive through secure business change. They design innovative end-to-end solutions to ensure that your business programmes deliver what you need while maximising quality, reducing risk and cost. The Professional Services video shows how Capita provides businesses with integrated IT Professional Services and support.

nuSIEM Consumer Services Video

nuSIEM is a managed cloud based SIEM service that provides complete visibility of all aspects of your UTM/firewall. nuSIEM, backed by its distributed, parallel processing cloud, combines high speed, real-time analysis of logs with intelligent alerting and Dynamic Drill Down Reporting. The ability to scale the nuSIEM is virtually unlimited and can be quickly achieved through scale-out architecture. The consumer services video highlights how their threat intelligence system can help your enterprise respond to malware or unknown attacks.

Sears Consumer Services Video

Sears Home Services delivers solutions for your entire home, from appliance care to interior and exterior upgrades for your home. You can trust their experts to help take care of your house so you can enjoy your home. To ensure they have the right parts to fix your appliance, they use technology to diagnose problems before they arrive at your home. Whether you purchased your appliance at Sears or not, a Sears Appliance Expert can help. The consumer services video describes Sears as your ultimate go to option for all your home care needs.

Ayehu Consumer Services Video

Ayehu provides IT Process Automation solutions for IT & Security professionals to identify and resolve critical incidents, simplify complex workflows and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure through automation. The consumer services video shows how Ayehu eyeShare can cut the Mean Time to Resolution and manual, repetitive tasks out of your IT operation with security incident response automation.

The Professional Service Consumer Services Video

The professional service centre offers a comfortable environment for health related consultations. The centre offers a wide range of facilities and equipment that facilitate diagnosis and management so that those who use the services offered can be managed as efficiently and conveniently as possible. They offer a wide range of services offered by equally committed specialists in their respective field. They work in close collaboration with a number of other specialists and diagnostic facilities to ensure the highest standard of care. The consumer service video shows how The professional service centre is working towards providing promising medical services.

Hutt Trucking Consumer Services Video

Hutt Trucking offers warehousing, transport and logistics services for manufacturers of all sizes. They offer creative solutions that helps you streamline your logistics by examining every link in your supply chain. They provide transportation services can help you reduce product fluctuation, shutdowns, backups. The consumer services video shows how Hutt Trucking can provide you a seamless producing and delivering experience.

Business Doctors Consumer Services Video

Business Doctors Professional Services is a collaboration between Business Doctors and is the fastest growing business consultancy in the UK. With challenging market conditions and competitive pressures from bigger firms, they are committed to supporting you with knowledge, expertise and resources to help widen both your range of services and revenue streams. The consumer services video highlights how Business Doctors Professional Services can make your business run efficiently.

Telefonica Consumer Services Video

Telefonica Cyber Security services provide intelligence to clients to help them detect internal and external threats, using that intelligence to implement preventive measures that helps to minimize threats and create reactive measure to deal with inevitable attacks. The consumer services video uses great visuals to highlight the deep knowledge needed to tackle the Cyber Security of today.

Edge Consulting Consumer Services Video

The Edge Consulting is a fully dedicated Human Resource (HR) Consulting Firm specialising in Strategic Human Resource Management and Development; they therefore provide expertise and direction through cutting edge consulting services and support in key areas of Human Capital Management. This consumer services video highlights the core expertise and what’s their consulting approach.

Telstra Consumer Services Video

Telstra Cloud Services offers businesses a scalable solution to deploy applications deployment, deliver business processes and deploy offshore disaster recovery solutions across multiple geographic locations. The consumer services video overview communicates how Telstra can provides customers with an exceptional experience, combining the flexibility of cloud computing with a world-class high-performance low latency global network.

Enterprise Consumer Services Video

Enterprise cloud is a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) by NTT communication offering efficient management and unified control of both Enterprise Cloud and third-party cloud provider solutions. The consumer services video highlights how Enterprise Cloud can simmer down the inconvenience of cloud management within a single dashboard.

2nd watch consumer services Video

The 2nd Watch Cloud Management Platform is a robust system that leverages cutting edge software with years of cloud experience. With automation and technology you are able to monitor, patch and optimize across thousands of instances, in moments. The consumer services video shows how 2nd watch can reduce risks and increases overall performance.

Toll Consumer Services Video

Toll is one of Asia Pacific’s largest freight transport provider permitting moving your goods by air, road, rail or sea. It has specialised fleet to provide a wide range of heavy haulage and bulk freight services for payloads exceeding normal capacity. The consumer services video shows how Toll provides safe, secure transport services for a wide range of freight types, providing the accredited expertise to handle your specialised cargo.

With the above consumer services video examples for website it’s evident that companies are fast integrating videos in their marketing campaigns and various other touchpoints. If you planning to develop these videos a good start is to develop a brief of what can be the tone and style for your videos. We advise you to be different and unique while you create your messaging through the videos.

We at Advids, create custom consumer services video based on your brief. With a complete video production services plan at a fixed price,our design team works right from concept development, to art design and animation. Having created 1200 plus explainers for businesses, our Creative team can help you come up with the right fit. Do talk to us or send us a note on what your company plans to create with for the next consumer services video requirement.

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20 Brilliant Animated Corporate Video Examples

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20 Brilliant Animated Corporate Video Examples

Corporate videos are generating a lot of buzz today. From small enterprises to large companies; videos are being used to communicate and drive engagement. A well defined video and how it is used in your website can meet objectives such as signups, web forms, increased stay on time. A corporate video can be an added value to your sales funnel and also a great marketing collateral.

This article highlights 20 Brilliant Animated Corporate Videos that you must watch. Learn from these great example videos to create an engaging web marketing video for your business. Here we go, enjoy the article :

Toyota Animated Corporate Video

Toyota is the world’s market leader in sales of hybrid electric vehicles, and one of the largest companies to encourage the mass-market adoption of hybrid vehicles across the globe. The 3D animated corporate video with great visuals show how they attract and attain customers with high-valued products and services and the most satisfying ownership experience.

Capgemini Animated Corporate Video

Capgemini’s integrated supply chain management, planning & execution solution synchronizes all supply and demand plans with execution processes across your supply chain, allowing you to read and react based on customer demand and actual sales. They offer flexible, sustainable and technologically robust solutions to help you integrate your value chain, from suppliers to customers, based on their Integrated Planning & Execution model. Capgemini with this animated corporate video highlights how organisations can achieve better margins, cost reductions and improvements in efficiency and working capital through SCM tool.

Deutsche Bank Animated Corporate Video

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. It offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world and competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people. The animated corporate video shows how Deutsche Bank is a fully integrated financial services provider to corporate, institutional and individual clients.

Nike + SNKRS App Animated Corporate Video

The NIKE +SNRS is a new platform that will allow users to stay up to date on releases, get the history behind the sneakers, and even purchase.The app offers a much smoother checkout process than what’s been on Nikestore. From iconic classics to the latest releases, Nike+ SNKRS has insider access on the latest, including launches, drops, and the stories behind all your favorite sneakers. The animated corporate video of Nike’s App shows how you can fulfil your retail needs on the go.

HTC Animated Corporate Video

HTC Corporation is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company. HTC aims to pursue brilliance, with an impulse to create, to venture into the unknown with an unwavering dedication to bring innovative design to life.The animated corporate video shows how HTC has been trying to push their audience everyday to re-imagine new ways to connect the world, and their pursuits in ways never before thought possible.

J&J Animated Corporate Video

The Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies offers the world’s largest range of consumer healthcare products. Their baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care, over-the-counter and women’s health products feature brands trusted by consumers and healthcare professionals worldwide. The animated corporate video demonstrates how J&J has been helping billions of people around the world to live a happy vibrant life.

Epson Animated Corporate Video

Seiko Epson Corporation or simply Epson, is a Japanese electronics company and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of computer printers, and information and imaging related equipment.They deliver high performance products, services and solutions. The 3D animated corporate video emphasizes on how Epson is a trusted option for all your computer needs.

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goFluent Animated Corporate Video

goFLUENT provides customized language training solutions. goFLUENT’s fully-integrated blended learning solutions combine effective trainers, innovative technology and client-centric services to add more value for learners, thus maximizing the return on investment faster than any other method.The animated corporate video shows how goFLUENT has helped employees of all English levels and job functions improve their communication skills.

Jola Animated Corporate Video

Jola is a marketing and technology solutions enterprise that offers original and elegant executions for any business-to-business need, ranging from stand-out marketing innovation to state-of-the-art web development and everything in between. Jola claims to be experts at advertising and marketing, brand strategy and planning, catalog design and production, B2B e-commerce and content development, along with mobile platforms. The animated corporate video emphasizes on how Jola can help brand creation and reinvention.

Experis Animated Corporate Video

Experis, a ManpowerGroup company, specializes in placing top talent in IT, Finance, Engineering, and other industries. They achieve this through their deep industry knowledge and an unmatched understanding of human potential. Experis offices are located all across the United States and far beyond its borders, with a global footprint that spans over 80 countries. The animated corporate video shows how Experis connects people to jobs, training and tools that enable them to support themselves, build a sense of pride and contribute to the community.

Ximble Animated Corporate Video

Nimble Software Systems, Inc is the maker of Ximble, a powerful, cloud-based workforce management system, simplifying employee scheduling and time tracking for retailers, restaurants and SMBs. The animated corporate video shows how you can Manage staff scheduling, time tracking and communication from any device using ximble.

Barney & Barney Animated Corporate Video

Barney & Barney is a leading insurance brokerage, offering a comprehensive line of risk management and employee benefit solutions. The Foundation is committed to giving back and to provide for those in need, support our youth, advance the arts and protect the environment. They deliver high-quality service, cost-effective risk management and employee benefits for businesses and individuals. The animated corporate video introduces the core values of Barney & Barney.

Omega Pharma Animated Corporate Video

Omega Pharma, the Branded Consumer Healthcare division of Perrigo, is one of the major companies in the consumer health and personal care industry in Europe. Omega Pharma markets health and personal care products to which the end-consumer has access without a medical prescription (Over-The-Counter/OTC). With its innovative products, Omega Pharma aims to offer consumers the possibility of pursuing a healthy lifestyle and experiencing a better sense of well-being. The animated corporate video gives you an overview of Omega Pharma company.

UL Transaction Security Animated Corporate Video

For more than a century, UL has been one of the most recognized and trusted resources for advancing safety. Its Transaction Security division guides companies within the mobile, payments and transit domains through the complex world of electronic transactions.UL has Offering in advice, test and certification services, security evaluations and test tools, during the full life cycle of your product development process or the implementation of new technologies. The animated corporate video shows that UL is the global leader in safeguarding security, compliance and global interoperability.

Kellogg’s Animated Corporate Video

Kellogg’s is an American multinational food manufacturing company that produces cereal and convenience foods, including cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit-flavored snacks, frozen waffles and vegetarian foods. The animated corporate video shows how Kellogg’s is constantly working to make its food even more nutritious so you don’t have to sacrificing the yummy taste you love – every day.

Starry Animated Corporate Video

Starry Internet plans to wireless equipment that will deliver super-charged internet speeds up to 1 gigabit per second. That’s fast enough to download a two-hour movie in a just a few seconds. Starry makes a receiver called the Starry Point that hangs out your window like an antenna. One can hook up your own wireless receiver or use its own Starry Station, a $350 device that can tell you how fast your internet is performing right from its screen. The 2D animated corporate video describes how Starry is redefining how Internet should be: wireless, affordable, and remarkably fast.

Ziegler Animated Corporate Video

Ziegler is a privately held investment bank, capital markets, wealth management and proprietary investments firm. Specializing in the healthcare, senior living, education and religion sectors, as well as general municipal and structured finance, enables them to generate a positive impact on the communities they serve. The corporate video animation highlights the community-oriented aspect of the financial services firm, Ziegler.

LF Logistics Animated Corporate Video

LF Logistics is the supply chain partner of choice for companies looking to sustainably grow in Asia.Their network spanning Greater China, ASEAN, Japan, Korea, the Middle East and Indian subcontinent provides you with a strong “home court advantage” in this culturally diverse and economically active region. The corporate video animation shows their integrated logistics offering including Asia-focused in-country logistics solutions and global freight management services.

Levtech Consulting Animated Corporate Video

Levtech Consulting delivers best-of-breed business solutions and industry-specific consulting services from international technology companies such as Microsoft and Infor. Driven by a strong management team with diverse industry experience, the practice consists of some of the finest talent in the areas of Business Consulting and Project Management for Enterprise Applications. The corporate video animation provides a short overview of Levtech’s offerings and capabilities.

GCI Animated Corporate Video

GCI is one of the leading Managed Service Providers.GCI excel in helping customers transform their business through use of innovative, cutting edge and robust IT services. Whether a customer’s requirements include Unified Communications, Cloud, Security, Network, Voice or Business Continuity and PCI Compliance, GCI is able to provide a fully managed service to meet their digital needs and keep the service fit for purpose as their businesses and the environments they operate in change. The corporate video animation gives you an overview of GCI company.

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With the above animated corporate video examples it’s evident that companies are fast integrating videos in their marketing campaigns and various other touchpoints. If you are in the similar domain these videos are good start to build a brief of what can be the tone and style for your videos. We advise you to be different and unique while you create your messaging through the videos.

We at Advids understand that corporate policies are continuously evolving themselves, with a lot of transformations happening now and many more to follow in future. Lets use the power of videos to get your word out. We will be scanning the web to find more new and interesting in animated corporate videos , if you have something to share do reach out to us.

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Burger King upsets actual king with Belgian ad

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Burger King upsets actual king with Belgian ad

The king of Belgium is apparently not amused by his appearance in a recent Burger King ad.

The country's royal family contacted the fast food chain this weekend over an online ad that asks people to choose between its mascot and a cartoon image of King Philippe, the BBC reports.

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A spokesperson for the family told the network that the company isn't allowed to use the monarch's likeness without their approval.

As of Saturday evening, the ad remained live at the domain whoistheking.be. 

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