194
●
THE ON-DEMAND BRAND
As we touched on earlier, Nike PhotoiD lets you use your camera
phone to snap a picture of virtually anything and send it to a short
code to receive a reply that features a rendering of a customized shoe
that uses your picture’s two most dominant colors as its highlights
(see Figure 8–3).
Then there’s Audi, which has its own mobile game app that uses the
iPhone’s accelerometer to enable players to steer a digital version of
the Audi A4 through a series of progressively challenging courses—a
virtual test drive, if you will.
On the other end of the spectrum, Kia Motors of America recently
lived up to its brand slogan, “The Power to Surprise,” by launching a
branded radio station on a mobile social music app—imeem—in conjunc-
tion ...