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Appy Awards

Branded Content App: Best Western Alive! by Best Western International for Best Western International
Best Western developed a custom interactive app branded with Disney Channel's Teen Beach 2. The app aimed to provide an interactive experience at the hotels. Guests launched the content in the app by interacting on their smartphones with image of Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell. Augmented reality let guests take selfies with Teen Beach 2 stars, play a character personality quiz, and gain access to Disney Channel content. There were more than 15,000 app downloads; reaching more than 800,000 people through social-sharing; 425,000 sweepstakes entries.
Affiliated Agency: Ideas Collide Marketing Communications is a full service marketing agency responsible to coordination and development of the application.
Credits: Ideas Collide Marketing Communications, Bridget Daly, Account Director Best Western International,Todd Sommers, Director, Brand Marketing; Voice Cooking by SapientNitro for Philadelphia
SapientNitro helped Philadelphia Cream Cheese in Brazil create a cooking app, teaching fans how to prepare recipes with the cream cheese. Not just any app. One with voice controls that let users say an ingredient to explore different recipes, go back and forth through recipes with voice command. It lets users share recipes on social media, make notes and use a timer while cooking. The app garnered 150,000 downloads and 20,000 recipe shares. Consumers spent an average of nine minutes on the platform.
Credits: CCO: Marcelo Tripoli Creative Director: Tiago Lucci Associate Creative Director: Daniel Portuga Copywriter: Rafael Hessel Art Director: Renato Silveira e Fernando Dutra VP Strategy: Carlos Borges Planner: Luiz Junior (Tatu) Media: Thais Coelho Account Director: Flávia Denser Account Manager: Maurício Rodrigues Project Manager: Ricardo Mantovani; Touchfit TV - Georges St-Pierre by ZoneTV for Georges St-Pierre
The Touchfit TV app featuring mixed martial arts champion, Georges St-Pierre, known for his fitness regimen and workouts, brands the new Digital Entertainment Network ZoneTV. It aims to bridge the world of OTT with larger pay TV operators. The app gives viewers unlimited access to more than 500 pre-programmed workouts and exercises. The TV app is available as a premium subscription channel on AT&T U-verse TV. ZoneTV works with some of the largest operators to deliver digital first content packaged as television channels.
Affiliated Agency: CAA Sports, Zolmo Limited, LB3i Sports - all working on behalf of George St-Pierre as content providers
Credits: Jeff Weber, CEO Doug Edwards, Founder and Executive Chairman Mike Daymond, COO Bruce Rider, Chief Media Officer

Branded Gaming App: Heineken Brewlock by CKSK for Heineken USA
To inform and excite users on Heineken's new innovative Brewlock technology, CKSK developed a consumer education platform leveraging augmented reality. By pointing their phone with the app enabled at key Brewlock materials in bar, users were able to find codes that lead to prizes like apple gear or brewery trips to Amsterdam. This combination of fresh marketing and consistency in value is why users are still logging into over now 6K Brewlock enabled bars across the country.
Affiliated Agency: Planning, Strategy, Ideation, UX, Technical Delivery & Deployment completed in-house by CKSK
Credits: Stuart Harricks (Executive Creative Director, CKSK) Cillian Kieran (CEO, Strategic Lead, CKSK) Katie Brown (Account Director, CKSK) Donnacha Costello (Head of UX, CKSK) Darren Lee (Art Director / Interaction Designer, CKSK); Stitchers Hack the Case by Freeform for Freeform
With the launch of their new series, Stitchers, Freeform wanted to engage potential viewers on the show's unique sci-fi premise - crime fighters who can "stitch" themselves into a recently deceased person's memory. Using virtual reality and 360 video, Freeform turned users into Stitchers and introduced them into the show's world long before the its premier. With over 150K plays, 170K hours of engagement, and 4.4 Million screen views, Stitchers had positioned themselves well for a great launch.
Affiliated Agency: Storm Ideas
Credits: Freeform: Nigel Cox-Hagan - Sr. Vice President, Marketing, Creative & Branding Danielle Mullin - Vice President, Marketing Dalia Ganz - Director-Digital & Partnership Marketing Deena Beach - Executive Director, Marketing Larry Del Santo - Senior Manager, Social Media Jessica Samson - Social Media Strategist Storm Ideas: Bob Thomson - Founder; Slashy Souls by Midnight Oil for Bandai Namco
To promote the release of Dark Souls 3 and reach outside of their core audience, Bandai & Midnight Oil created the infamous Slashy Souls. Dubbed as the hardest pre-order game ever, players must go through an endless runner that mimics the same level of difficulty as Dark Souls 3. Players who were brave enough to play the game were given a in app badge that they could use to redeem some cool Dark Souls swag.
Credits: Sam Joly - Developer Helena Lam - Campaign Manager / Producer, Midnight Oil Kyle Ramos - Creative Director, Midnight Oil Diana Kwok - Art Director, Midnight Oil Justin Scott - Account Director, Midnight Oil Laura Yoshioka - Channel Marketing Director, Bandai Namco

Business: Ready2Ride by Activation for N/A
Ready2Ride is a truly innovative tool that connects motorcycle dealerships with customers, while designed to be used by both parties. On one hand, it provides riders with tools like bike health alerts, weather information, location based points of interest, ride tracking & sharing, community connections and personalized dealer rewards and promotions. On the other hand, the app is a control panel and a marketing platform for dealers allowing them to use web-based text messaging software to maximize ROI by complimenting the company’s own marketing strategy.
Affiliated Agency: 7 Media Group
Credits: Rohit Pursram, CEO - Activation Stephan Galfas, EVP Product - Activation Jana Mashonee - Creative - Activation Nick Kairinos - CTO - Activation Ron Cariker - President, 7 Media Group; WPS Office by Kingsoft Office Software for Kingsoft
WPS Office allows its users to create, view, edit and share all office documents away from their computer. Good news is, it is fully compatible with Microsoft Office, PDF and other document formats. The features range from fully supported by Spotlight search to rich formatting similar to PC (fonts, colors, image editing etc.) Integrated with cloud storage platforms, it is a single lightweight app (less than 25MB) for all of the office document needs. WPS Office is basically Office for iPad, except it’s free!
Credits: Zhang QingYuan - CTO, Kingsoft; Heal - doctor house calls for adults and kids by Heal for Heal
Heal brought back doctor house calls through two clicks in an app, which the company says works similar to Uber and Lyft. A simple, yet innovative idea, removes the travel time to visit a doctor, wait in the waiting room, and then get rushed through the visit. The Heal app lets patients request a doctor. The co-pay of $99 for in app or out of network visits is available in Los Angeles today, and soon in San Francisco and San Diego.
Credits: Renee Dua: Founder/Chief Medical Officer Nick Desai: Co-Founder/CEO

Business Media App: Marketing Land by Third Door Media for Marketing Land
Marketing Land is a daily, must-read site for CMO's, digital marketing executives and advertising campaign managers. The app provides digital marketing business news and industry briefs through push notifications and a full feed of all articles published daily from the editorial staff and network of expert contributors. Some of the app’s features include -top story notifications for breaking news and hot topics readers care about most, ability to browse news stories by topic or channel, social sharing options and more.
Credits: Michelle Robbins, VP of Technology, Third Door Media John Blanchard, Sr. Web Developer, Third Door Media David Chordigan, Web Developer, Third Door Media; pennwellhub by PennWell Corporation for PennWell Corporation
The pennwellhub POWER app is the king of the power-related industry news, featuring over 100,000 global sources, and pushing it right to the reader’s phone. Daily video content from PowerToday the industry’s only daily show, takes users inside power trade shows, and gives access to exclusive interviews with industry leaders. The monitoring tools tailors content through tracking what’s trending by interest area, keywords, location, companies and more, making it an invaluable source of information for power professionals.
Credits: Scott Carr, Sr. VP/Chief Technology Officer, PennWell Corporation David Warren, VP Digital Media, PennWell Corporation Scott Delaune, VP, Corporate Development & PennWellHub Strategy Chris Hitch, VP IT Applications, PennWell Corporation Robert Williams, User Experience Architect, PennWell Corporation Ben Hofmann, Director, PW3 Research & Development, PennWell Corporation John Crawford, R&D Architect, PennWell Corporation Holly Nester, Sr. Director of Product Development, PennWell Corporation Tim Francis, Director of PW3 Product Development, PennWell Corporation Terence Weber, Sr. Mobile Developer, PennWell Corporation Alex Protyagov, PW3 Mobile Developer, PennWell Corporation Jeff Breunig, Sr. Mobile Developer, PennWell Corporation Virginia Knight, Quality Assurance Engineer, SEO & Product Support, PennWell Corporation Daniel Houk, R&D Architect, Application Development, PennWell Corporation UI/UX Design, Velir Inc.; FDIC by PennWell Corporation for FDIC / Fire Engineering
This app is an easy way to stay updated on all things FDIC (Fire Department Instructor's Conference). FDIC provides firefighters a comprehensive range of leadership trainings as well as courses designed to improve life-saving job performance. The FDIC all-on-one app provides an instant access to various facets of the conference. Some of the features allow to bookmark favorite sessions, explore social events, browse new fire products, monitor the event’s twitter feed and more.
Credits: Scott Carr, Sr. VP/Chief Technology Officer, PennWell Corporation David Warren, VP Digital Media, PennWell Corporation Chris Hitch, VP IT Applications, PennWell Corporation Bill Pennington, Director of Web Development, PennWell Corporation Michael McKinney, Director of Product Management Eric Schlett, Vice President/Publisher Fire Engineering and FDIC, PennWell Corporation Chris LeHew, Sr. Mobile Developer, PennWell Corporation John Crawford, R&D Architect, PennWell Corporation Holly Nester, Sr. Director of Product Development, PennWell Corporation John Walker, Product Development Manager, PennWell Corporation Banumathy Gopalakrishnan, Project Manager, PennWell Corporation Patrick Dumontel, Sr. Web Developer, PennWell Corporation Philip Jaques, Sr. Mobile Developer, PennWell Corporation Warren Wood – Web Development Architect, PennWell Corporation Scott Nelson, Sr. Product Manager, PennWell Corporation Derrick Giltner, Designer/Illustrator, PennWell Corporation

Charity/Non-Profit: Viewers to Volunteers™ by Fuzz for CBS EcoMedia, Inc.
Viewers to Volunteers (V2V) democratizes philanthropy by giving everyone the opportunity to support causes they care about without making a monetary donation. Instead, users earn points for reading, watching, and sharing inspiring stories on the app; they then direct those points to the V2V Nonprofit of their choice. V2V Points then turn into actual dollars for the Nonprofits, courtesy of participating brands. By July 2016, V2V will have directed over 1.2 million dollars to participating Nonprofits, positively impacting hundreds of thousands of people.
Affiliated Agency: Fuzz, design and development. BRaVe Media Ventures, advising. Marks Entertainment + Media, advising. Whelan, advising.
Credits:
CONCEPT - Paul Polizzotto, Founder and President, EcoMedia. DEVELOPMENT AND EXECUTION – Ed Oh, EcoMedia team, Fuzz team.; Y-MVP by Fuzz for YMCA of Greater New York
The YMCA of Greater New York wanted to create an app that would help teens get exercising by making it fun and engaging. Fuzz created Y-MVP, which allows users to create customized workout "playlists" drawn from over 150 cardio, strength, cross-training and flexibility activities; they can also take on challenges with playlists from YMCA coaches and other members of the community. Many of the exercises are designed to be doable anywhere, with no equipment. Along the way users can earn badges that recognize their achievements.
Credits: Lori Rose Benson, VP Healthy Lifestyles, YMCA of Greater New York Emil Ramnarine, Senior Director of Youth Health and Fitness, YMCA of Greater New York Kate Elle-Griffen, Sr. Engagement Manager, Fuzz Jon Shears, Sr. Product Designer, Fuzz Brett Spiegel, Creative Director, Fuzz Simon Yousoufov, Web Developer, Fuzz Lea Yousoufov, Web Developer, Fuzz Kyle Mendes, Web Developer, Fuzz Jay Canty, iOS Developer, Fuzz Simon Park, SEiT, Fuzz Stavros Ladeas, SEiT, Fuzz Carolina Garcia, Strategist, Fuzz; 3Mgives by Solid Interactive for 3M
3M has long encouraged its employees to be active in their communities through volunteer work. The new app, 3Mgives, aims to facilitate that process by allowing the company's 98,000 employees to explore, share, and participate in events that support education, communities and the environment. It allows users to attend upcoming events, register for events and interact with planners, collaborate with others and share their experiences through photos and comments. The app also helps "gamify" volunteering by allowing different groups to compare and compete.
Affiliated Agency: Pepper Group - Design - Front End Design
Credits: George Couris - CEO of Pepper Group/Founder Teer1 Travis McHattie - CEO of Solid Interactive Andrew DuBrock - Project Manager of Solid Interactive Nate Potter-Mobile Developer of Solid Interactive Jonathan Waltner-Lead Mobile Developer of Solid Interactive

Communication: MyOfficeSuite™ by Broadview Networks for OfficeSuite®
The MyOfficeSuite app lets users manage all aspects of thier OfficeSuite Phone, Fax, HD Meeting and other services—all on one intuitive app that's secure, mobile friendly and customizable. The best part is that users can make real-time changes to their accounts right from their smartphones. The appallows to chat with any employee in any location, view the availability of co-workers, listen to the business voicemail from anywhere and more. The result is the seamless ability to work from numerous locations using one portal.
Affiliated Agency: Edelman (Broadview’s public relations firm.)
Credits: Stephen Farkouh, EVP Information Systems – Broadview Networks Kaushik Bhanderi, VP Information Systems – Broadview Networks James W Richy, Managing Director Software Systems – Broadview Networks Abhay Tambe, Software Developer – Broadview Networks Harry Chan, UI/UX Developer – Broadview Networks; SpeakEmoji by SapientNitro for SapientNitro (Self-promotion)
SpeakEmoji is the voice-to-emoji translator that helps its users speak the world's fastest-growing language. To generate an emoji message, user speaks into the phone. Then the emoji message can either be shared directly to Facebook, Twitter, Messenger etc. or pasted into SMS and email. Luckily for the receiving side, emoji messages can be translated back into text. While the app supports only English language, it recognizes multiple accents, such as UK, USA & AUS.
Credits: 1. Mark Hunter – Executive Creative Director, SapientNitro 2. Greg Mitchell – Creative Director, SapientNitro 3. Andre Hull – Creative Director, SapientNitro 4. Adam Hosfal – Account Director, SapientNitro 5. Sarah Burns – Project Manager/Producer, SapientNitro 6. Rowan Kerr – Senior Manager Mobile Solutions, SapientNitro 7. Illia Lekhter – Manager Mobile Solutions, SapientNitro 8. Erin Walsh – Developer Mobile Solutions, SapientNitro 9. Takbir Sarker – Interactive Developer, SapientNitro 10. Felipe Roriz – Junior Developer Mobile Solutions, SapientNitro 11. Irma Arianti – Senior Experience Designer, SapientNitro 12. Ignacio Gonzalez – Senior Designer, SapientNitro 13. Adam Shipp – Designer, SapientNitro 14. Adam Brewster – Senior Manager Designer, SapientNitro 15. Marcus Quinn – Manager Designer, SapientNitro 16. Stephen Vaughan – Manager Designer, SapientNitro 17. James McCleod – Senior Manager Interactive Development, SapientNitro 18. Kevin Chapman – Manager Interactive Development, SapientNitro 19. Stephen Worley – Director Creative Operations, SapientNitro 20. Mick Bailey - Service Delivery Lead, SapientNitro 21. Mark Caswell-Daniel – Creative Technologist, SapientNitro 22. Craig Smith – Director Marketing, SapientNitro 23. Gaynor Armit – Manager Marketing, SapientNitro; Flyp by Flyp for Flyp
We’re all used to having multiple email addresses, credit cards and social accounts. Why not multiple phone number? Flyp provides users with additional phone numbers to be used on a single mobile device. The app lets users to see all phone calls, voicemails and texts from each contact in a single feed, allowing them to keep one cell phone and multiple alter egos, so to speak. Additionally, Flyp does not require user names nor does it obligate recipients to have the app to communicate.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Once a judge has downloaded the app and selected a number, Flyp can unlock all premium features for the user. Peter Rinfret – Co-founder and CEO, Flyp David Shack – Director of Marketing, Flyp Jeff Stark - Co-founder / Senior Engineer, Flyp Bob Cleaves - Co-founder / Senior Engineer, Flyp Ivan Zhidov - Co-founder / VP Development, Flyp John Sakalowsky - Chief Product Officer, Flyp

Consumer Magazine/Newspaper App: Reuters TV by Thomson Reuters for Reuters TV
Reuters has developed a modular, TV-like experience for mobile users with its Reuters TV app. The app offers a clean layout with a live-streaming section and a reported news feed in the home section. The home section features clips of various lengths covering the full range of news stories available from Reuters’s massive international stable of journalists. In a word, the UX is smooth: the livestreaming was high quality and the adjustable length of programming (5-30 minutes) for the savvy global citizen strapped for time.
Affiliated Agency: Ueno - Creative Agency
Credits: Isaac Showman, Managing Director, Reuters TV - Eric Johnston, Engineering Director, Reuters TV - Haraldur Thorleifsson, Creative Director, UENO - Elizabeth Pace, Marketing Director, Reuters TV - Dan Colarusso, Executive Editor, Reuters TV - Joanna Webster, Editorial Director, Reuters TV - Jenny Harris, Senior Producer, Reuters TV - Mrudula Chakravarthy, Android Software Engineer - Juntao Zhu, QA Engineer, Reuters TV; Magzter - The Reading Destination by Magzter Inc. for Brand
The Magzter app features hi-res images and vertical parallax scrolling which ads an extra dimension to whatever content you care to consume on the app. With over 7,600 magazines available from 3,300 publishers it’s not likely users will miss a feature or story. The Magzter team has developed their own tools to extract the salient elements of magazine articles and slot them into HTML for mobile devices. Doing so also opens up magazine content to direct linking via social media in a big way.
Credits: Girish Ramdas - CEO Vijay Radhakrishnan - President Abe Cytryn - CTO John Paris - Vice President, Product Holly Cooper - Digital Editorial Director Anil Sivadas - Product Manager; Texture by Next Issue Media for Texture, by Next Issue Media
Magazine content app Texture features a catalogue of content from large publishers like Time Inc, Hearst, Meredith and Conde Nast—the publishers of popular magazines like Wired, GQ, Us Weekly, Cosmo, and Entertainment Weekly. The app boasts an easy to navigate format that allows users to save their favorite content and organize their own collections of articles. An advanced search function is also available for the more than 500,000 articles Texture has in its catalog.
Credits: Texture Product Team, led by Chief Technology Officer Keith Barraclough

Education: CTU Mobile by Colorado Technical University for Colorado Technical University
Designed by Colorado Technical University, CTU Mobile app provides an ingenious tool that helps students achieve their higher education goals. The app is a result of collaboration between CTU and its students, where the emphasis was placed on fitting the app seamlessly into a user’s typical day. CTU Mobile does this directly by providing access to learning anywhere, anytime. Some of the learning activities include CTU course live chats, access to assignments, discussion boards, and submit projects – all using real-time academic data.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Career Education Corporation (CTU Corporate IT partners) Alex Kourkoumelis – VP, Product Engineering Amanda Marshall – IT Product Manager Mark Lapinski – Director, Applications Michael Moklak – Manager, Software Development Colorado Technical University Elise Baskel – VP, Marketing & Alliances Melissa Balsan – VP, Marketing Ellise Farber – Director, Marketing; Varsity Tutors by Varsity Tutors for Varsity Tutors
The free Varsity Tutors app puts thousands of study tools in the palm of a student’s hand. Whether it is an individual subject or the SAT or GRE preparation, the app provides the power to customize and guide users’ study experience. The Varsity Tutors app offers a range of practice tests in various subject areas. Student can use the app’s library of flashcards or create their own using audio, photos, and text. The Varsity Tutors app is an all-in-one study tool on an intuitive platform.
Credits: Chuck Cohn, CEO (Varsity Tutors) Doug Schlenker, CTO (Varsity Tutors); Course Hero by Course Hero, Inc. for Course Hero
Studying on the go has just gotten easier! The Course Hero app helps students maximize their study time with access to millions of helpful study materials, fast and step-by-step tutoring, and digital flashcards. Study resources cannot only be viewed online but also saved for later and even accessed offline. The app boasts access to millions of course-specific documents and Q&As, online tutoring 24/7, and notifications for new resources based on previous search results.
Credits: login/email: appycoursehero@coursehero.com password: pickus! From Course Hero, Inc: Nick Zakula, Ian Carrigan, Michael Kramer, Chau Nguyen, Jason Wentworth, Steven Chien, Paddu Raghavan, Umer Bukhari, James Cui, Vesko Dimitrov, David Gao and Jesse Wentworth

Entertainment: Univision Connecta by Univision for Verizon
Univision Conecta enabled interactivity around La Banda content for the country's largest live TV viewing audience, with 91% of all Univision viewers watching live in primetime. The app brought a twist to the La Banda and Verizon experience, where fans earned points for sharing and consuming content. One winner became the show's fourth judge via a hologram in the semifinal and attended the finale live. The app reached 400,000 downloads more than 2.8 million sessions and 122 million page views during the season.
Credits: o Emilio Allaga—VP Digital Content, Entertainment at Univision o Solangelee Molina— Senior Director of Video Programming for Univision o Marta Gonzalez— Multimedia Producer at Univision o Jessica Serrano— Sr. Multiplatform Producer at Univision o Diego Carvaial— Vice President, Digital Product at Univision; Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood by Giants Are Small & Deutsche Grammophon for Giants Are Small
Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood, adapted from Prokofiev's classic musical tale, the project brings children closer to classical music. The app, narrated by rock icon Alice Cooper and German Star Campinio, includes more than 48 minutes of newly recorded masterpieces by the National Youth Orchestra of Germany. Users can touch icons or swipe to move their way through Peter's story that includes forbidden gardens, robots and the Los Angeles Zoo. The iPhone version lets kids make connections between instruments and characters.
Affiliated Agency: Schirmer - Publisher
Credits: Performers Alice Cooper, Narrator (English vers.) Campino, Narrator (German vers.) Alexander Shelley, Conductor National Youth Orchestra of Germany, Orchestra Giants Are Small: Edouard Getaz, Producer/Director Doug Fitch, Designer/Director Frederic Gumy, Producer James R. Smith, Executive Producer Stephen Grecco, Writer Molly Smith Metzler, Writer Deutsche Grammophon: Ute Fresquet, Executive Producer Angelika Meissner, Executive Producer Sid McLachlan, Music Producer; Plex App by Plex for Plex
The best feature about the Plex app is it lets users discover and organize their music, movies, video and TV in one location and lets them stream to screens across devices, and integrates with more than forty platforms such as Chromecast, Roku, and Apple TV. Users can access musical lyrics, receive notifications of when and where their favorite artists tour, have the top tracks of preferred artists play without having to ask for favorites tracks, and add their music videos to their personal libraries.
Credits: Scott Olechowski and Elan Feingold – co-founders of Plex; Keith Valory, Plex CEO and Scott Hancock, Plex VP of Marketing

Entertainment/Sports: Made to Measure by WME | IMG for Made to Measure
Made to Measure (M2M) is a video network that explores the culture of fashion through films, original programming, runway shows, and exclusive videos with top models and tastemakers who define and transform the fashion landscape. M2M boasts its superbly curated library of fashion films, original series, interviews, and runway shows from around – all in one place. It’s an elegantly built app with clean interface that offers high quality content about the world of fashion and style through fresh and culturally relevant storytelling.
Affiliated Agency: Hello Elephant, LLC: Design and Development
Credits: Jonathan Dube, General Manager, WME|IMG Susan Hootstein, Executive Producer, WME|IMG Mary Kosearas, Director, Editorial Operations, WME|IMG Freddie Mejia, Director, Video Operations, WME|IMG Joshua Kinberg, Director, Digital Products, WME|IMG Kristin Faucher, VP, Hello Elephant Daniele Codega, Creative Director, Hello Elephant Danny Morrow, Technical Lead, Hello Elephant Ivey Inman, Producer, Hello Elephant; Reuters TV by Thomson Reuters for Reuters TV
The Reuters TV App provides news when you want it, where you want it. There are sections including On Demand, Up to Date, Relevant to You, Any Duration, the last of which is exactly what it sounds like—stories from five minutes to 30. The content, both editorial and reporting, originates in London, Hong Kong, New York and Washington and calls on Reuters’ more than 2,500 journalists worldwide. It’s personalized without pandering; it’s real time on any device.
Affiliated Agency: Ueno - Creative Agency
Credits: Isaac Showman, Managing Director, Reuters TV - Eric Johnston, Engineering Director, Reuters TV - Haraldur Thorleifsson, Creative Director, UENO - Elizabeth Pace, Marketing Director, Reuters TV - Dan Colarusso, Executive Editor, Reuters TV - Joanna Webster, Editorial Director, Reuters TV - Jenny Harris, Senior Producer, Reuters TV - Mrudula Chakravarthy, Android Software Engineer - Juntao Zhu, QA Engineer, Reuters TV; Yahoo Video Guide by Yahoo for Yahoo
Finding your favorite show has never been easier. With Yahoo Video Guide, you can now search movies and TV shows across various services (Netflix, HBO GO, Hulu, Amazon etc.) and stream instantly. Not sure what to watch? Try the GIF-powered mood picker feature or view movie trailers, summaries, and ratings right from the app without having to leave it. Once you find what you that perfect binge-worthy show, you can save it to watch later. The app is free and available on iOS and Android.
Credits: Robby Stein, Senior Director, Product Management, Yahoo Adam Cahan, SVP of Video, Design and Emerging Offerings, Yahoo Tony Ke, Design Director, Mobile and Emerging Products, Yahoo

Events: Thrillcall Live Music by Thrillcall & WillowTree for Thrillcall
Playing on the idea of "FOMO," Thrillcall and WillowTree created an app that shows users a schedule of upcoming live music performances in their vicinity, with recommendations based on an analysis of the user's music preferences with data from music-streaming services including iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and Rdio. Users can choose to get recommendations for their current location or upcoming trips, limiting or expanding results by setting the geographic radius. The app also enables them to buy tickets, preview music, and access special offers.
Credits: Thrillcall & WillowTree; TCS New York City Marathon by Tata Consultancy Services for John Lenzen
In support of the 2015 TCS New York City Marathon, Tata Consultancy Services created an app for spectators and runners that provided live, on-map tracking of runners, with users able to track up to ten runners at once. It also features a runner leaderboard and race predictor, a map and guide to NYC subways so friends and family could travel to see runners go by, and social sharing features. The app was downloaded over 275,000 times and generated over 53 million data points.
Credits: Mr. Ramaswamy Raman, Project Manager, TCS Ms. Jinal Tandel, Module Lead & Android Developer, TCS Ms. Swathi Palle, Module Lead & iOS Developer, TCS Ms. Manisha Yadav, Server Developer, TCS Mr. Nikhit Sankhe, QA Engineer, TCS Mr. Arvind Kadu, Delivery Manager - Mobility Sports, TCS; 2015 PGA Championship Live by PGA.com for PGA.com
For the 2015 PGA Championship, PGA.com created PGA Championship Live, which provided live streams of every shot for every pairing of players, as well as interactive real-time scoring, minute-by-minute updates of all the action, breaking news and social buzz, and video highlights incorporated into every player’s scorecard. For spectators at the course, the app used beacon technology for a Binoculars feature that allowed users to see which golfers were in their vicinity. The app also provided original and companion content for TV viewers.
Credits: Gary Treater Matt Mosteller Matt Kane Darryl Marshal Beth Vertino Tom Sahara Matt Wickline James Allen Rob Smith Jim Doeden Mike Benzie Lynne Lampinski Lauren Shannon Molly Goings Matt McElroy Paige Balocki Jeremy Friedman Billy Tucker Katy Sullivan

Family/Parenting: My Pregnancy & Baby Today by BabyCenter for BabyCenter
My Pregnancy & Baby Today not only gives the mommy-to-be and then mother an opportunity to learn about her pregnancy and changes to her body, but allows for a social media experience. Connecting mothers together can add a sense of community and support during an exciting, yet anxious time. The app is also multi-lingual, connecting mothers from different nationalities.
Credits: Linda Murray, SVP Customer Experience Sonia Pasquali, Head of Product Stephen Klop, Product Manager Mobile Apps Jully Lau, Engineering Lead Mobile Apps Ryan Mahon, Head of Engineering Kathy Wroblewski, Creative Director Amanda Wu, UX Loretta Robinson, UX; LittleHoots by LittleHoots for LittleHoots
Very cute idea. Creates an opportunity to have fun and be creative with quotes your kid/kids say. The social media potential or aspect that this app has can be a great growth opportunity.
Affiliated Agency: Bernstein Rein Advertising - Marketing Partner
Credits: Lacey Ellis - Founder and CEO Eric Disney - Creative Strategist Kim Flaherty - Product August Patterson - Developer Jeff Glasco - Advisor; First Response App by Meredith Xcelerated Marketing (MXM) for Church & Dwight/First Response
First Response is a trusted brand by many women. The First Response App is supporting mom from the moment she is trying to conceive with both the ovulation and cycle tracker. The process continues, being side by side mom, keeping her busy for the 3 minutes while her results calculate. With quizzes, videos and exercises, this app seems engaging and puts the needs of mommy first.
Credits: Lisa Borak – Director, Global New Product Innovation, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Wendy Bishop – Brand Manager, Women’s Health, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Rithika Naik – Product Manager, Women’s Health, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Emily Kaplan – Senior Manager, Digital Strategy, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Tim Snowden – Research Manager, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Mary-Beth Boyle – Senior Research Chemist, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Amy Karbiwynk - Product Manager, Global New Product Innovation, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Howard Hunt, Director of Client Services, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Steve Morrisey, Project Director, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Michael Broadman, Business Analyst, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Satyanaveen Vysetty, Solutions Architect, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Ryan Flynn, Director of User Experience, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Gregory Gallagher, Visual Designer, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Kelley Shea, Strategist, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Lisa Powys, Account Executive, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing

Finance: Stash by AD:60, INC for Stash Invest
STASH is an investing app designed to help consumers make the leap from a traditional savings account into the realm of investing. Starting with the onboarding experience, STASH removes common barriers in financial apps through a level of simplicity and structure using distinct sections; MyStash Discover and Account. Each section offers separate housed actions that draw connections through common experiences. It aims to offer a concierge feel to the investment vertical that allows you to connect to your beliefs, interest and goals.
Credits: Yoann Chalet Stephanie Miller David Hyman Carlos Aquino Jason Reposa Julia Landry; Wallaby by Wallaby for Wallaby
Wallaby helps consumers maximize their money, earn rewards, avoid interest and fees and stay on top of their every day spend through intelligent credit card selection. With different rewards, rates, benefits, and fees, credit cards are complicated, but Wallaby makes it easy. The app includes personal finance analysis tools, customizable widgets, and Apple Watch integration. It is powered by CardBase, Wallaby's proprietary database of more than 2,700 credit card products.
Credits: Matthew Goldman and Todd Zino; Zebit Instant Budget by Zebit for Zebit
When it comes to financial literacy, the main battle consumers have is deciphering what it all means. The Zebit Instant Budget App changes this. It is a fast and easy budgeting tool that helps consumers get their finances in order and better understand where there money is going. The App takes the guesswork out of budgeting and automatically creates a customized budget in minutes. It puts users on the right track after answering a few simple questions.
Affiliated Agency: Havas Formula—Public Relations
Credits: Steve Biafore, Maureen Beckman, Tommy Picard, Michael Thiemann—Zebit, Inc. Harold Gottschalk—Softstack Factory

Games: Action/Arcade/Sports: DomiNations by Nexon M for Big Huge Games
DomiNations is a mobile strategy game that allows the player to manage a colony as it evolves through various historical eras of civilization. The meticulous design allows players to immerse themselves into the complexities of building and managing a their base's own food, economy, and military. Since 2015, DomiNations has been able to gain a 4/5 star rating and record players logging in 4-6 times a day with an average playing time of 36 minutes.
Affiliated Agency: fortyseven communications - PR Agency
Credits: Brian Reynolds - Founder and Chairman of Big Huge Games Tim Train - CEO of Big Huge Games John Robinson - General Manager at Nexon M; Piano Tiles 2 by Cheetah Mobile for Cheetah Mobile
"Just tap the black tiles." These rules, though simple, are the basis of Cheetah Mobile new game: Piano Tiles 2. This sequal brilliantly innovates around the original game, adding in new gameplay modes and updating the sound quality. With updatesThe UX is still as slick as ever and makes only adds to what is a fun experience.
Credits: Sheng Fu, CEO of Cheetah Mobile Ming Xu, President of Cheetah Mobile Sylvan Wang, Producer of Piano Tiles 2; Rolling Sky by Turbo Chilli for Turbo Chilli
Released earlier this year, Turbo Chilli's Rolling Sky allows the player to guide a 3D ball through a retro inspired geometric landscape. The player's journey from point A to B is accompanied by a brilliant, critically-acclaimed soundtrack. It's no wonder why they were able to amass over 8 million downloads in only a couple of months!
Credits: Ben Hazzard - Game Design Lex Wills - Developer / 3D Connor-Locke Warburton - Developer Quang Ngo - Developer

Games: Educational/Family/Kids: Leonardo's Cat by StoryToys for StoryToys
StoryToys' Leonardo's Cat is an impressively put together adventure game where players play as, you guessed it, Leonardo's Cat, Scungilli. In over 60 levels players will have their lateral and logical thinking skills challenged along narration from Patrick Stewart and beautifully animated cut scenes. The attention to detail keeps the player immersed in the art and science of the renaissance era, leading to an experience that is both engaging and educational.
Credits: Bob Tedeschi - Writer. No company, please see https://www.statnews.com/staff/robert-tedeschi/ Michael K Frith - Character Designer (no company, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_K._Frith Emmet O'Neill - Publishing Producer, StoryToys Patrick Stewart - Voice of Da Vinci @sirpatstew Ciara Moore - Exec Producer, StoryToys.; Scribble Press Deluxe - Creative Book Maker for Kids by Fingerprint for Fingerprint
Through giving children a space to write and illustrate their own stories, Scribble Press Deluxe is the ultimate child creativity platform. With features like video exporting, audio recording, and over 300 drawing tools, it's no wonder why Scribble Press Deluxe has been adopted in over several thousand classrooms since its release.
Credits: Nancy MacIntyre, founder and CEO of Fingerprint and Anna Barber, GM & VP of Partnerships at Fingerprint; Speakaboos by Speakaboos for Speakaboos
With a mission focused on getting children to become lifetime readers, Speakaboos looks to merge basic literacy with engagement and fun. Using interactive stories and an eye for UI/UX, Speakaboos leverages its many publishing partnerships to deliver a variety stories directly to a child on a tablet or smartphone. Even with video games as their main competition, Speakaboos has still managed to get consistently high numbers of engagement from their user base.
Credits: 1. Neal Shenoy, CEO & Co-Founder (co-founder of Saavn, #1 music streaming service for Indian music globally, 20MM+ MAU) 2. Noelle Millholt, COO & Co-Founder (former entrepreneur in residence at [212]MEDIA) 3. Dr. Alice Wilder, Chief Learning Officer (Co-Producer & Director of Research, Blue's Clues / Nickelodeon; Co-Creator & Head of Research & Education, SuperWHY! / PBS Kids; Co-Executive Producer, Tumble Leaf / Amazon) 4. Halim Jabbour, Executive Producer (former Producer, Thomas & Friends / HIT Entertainment) 5. Stephen Massoni, VP, Product (former head of product for NickJr.com) 6. Thierry Sansaricq, VP, Engineering (former head of engineering for NickJr.com) 7. Patrick Dorey, Design Director (former design director for NickJr.com)

Health & Fitness: Sharecare Voice App by Sharecare for Sharecare
The Sharecare app uses voice analysis to identify and manage sources of stress in people's lives, providing critical information that reveals the emotions, behaviors and patterns that trigger stress. Users are provided with a visual representation of their state of mind during conversations, with colored zones indicating the intensity and type of stress. The technology also tracks sleep patterns and measures users' actual age versus their biological age. Sharecare reveals critical insights that will improve people's interpersonal relationships, well-being, health and quality of life.; Y-MVP by Fuzz for YMCA of Greater New York
New York City's YMCA created a free program for teens that motivates them to break out of their sedentary lifestyle and get fit through customized workouts that can be done at home or in a gym. The MVP app sets challenges and goals and tracks and rewards progress, with personalized playlists of favorite exercise routines. The Y-MVP app offers teens the ability to work out anytime, anywhere through its range of programs -- and a vital way to keep them motivated, active and healthy.
Credits: Lori Rose Benson, VP Healthy Lifestyles, YMCA of Greater New York Emil Ramnarine, Senior Director of Youth Health and Fitness, YMCA of Greater New York Kate Elle-Griffen, Sr. Engagement Manager, Fuzz Jon Shears, Sr. Product Designer, Fuzz Brett Spiegel, Creative Director, Fuzz Simon Yousoufov, Web Developer, Fuzz Lea Yousoufov, Web Developer, Fuzz Kyle Mendes, Web Developer, Fuzz Jay Canty, iOS Developer, Fuzz Simon Park, SEiT, Fuzz Stavros Ladeas, SEiT, Fuzz Carolina Garcia, Strategist, Fuzz; Heart Partner App by FCB Health for Brand: Unbranded Heart Failure Disease State/ Company: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation/Agency: FCB Health
Novartis Pharmaceuticals and FCB partnered with Mobiquity to create Heart Partner, a powerful tool for people with heart failure and their caregivers that enables patients to monitor and manage their condition and health and coordinate care and treatment. The mobile app helps patients and caregivers track medications, monitor symptoms and maintain treatment regimens and record vital signs and activity. Heart Partner has driven positive behavioral changes in patients and their caregivers, giving them the information they need to communicate better with their physicians.
Credits: BRAND TEAM Michele Angelaccio Associate Director, Connected Health Strategy Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation michele.angelaccio@novartis.com 862-778-8976 Lisa Blizzard Director, Consumer Marketing Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Lisa.blizzard@novartis.com 862-778-6213 AGENCY TEAM Rich Levy EVP Chief Creative Officer FCB Health rich.levy@fcb.com 212-672-2470 Mike Devlin EVP Creative Director FCB Health mike.devlin@fcb.com 212-885-3006 Sarah Hall EVP Group Management Director FCB Health sarah.hall@fcb.com 212-885-3404 CREATIVE TEAM Dave Gehrke VP Associate Creative Director, Copy FCB Health dave.gehrke@fcb.com 212-885-3553 Matt Silver VP Associate Creative Director, Art FCB Health matt.silver@fcb.com 212-885-3415 Randall Jones Art Supervisor FCB Health randall.jones@fcb.com 212-885-3486 OTHER CONTRIBUTORS Jen Maroney VP User Experience Director FCB Health jennifer.maroney@fcb.com 212-885-3369 Stacy Alabardo Senior User Experience Architect FCB Health stacy.alabardo@fcb.com 212-672-2460 Michael Pruskowski SVP Group Digital Strategy Director FCB Health michael.pruskowski@fcb.com 212-672-2338

Home/Garden/Interior Design/Lifestyle: Piper Mobile by Icontrol Networks for Icontrol's Piper
This mobile app security system not only acts as a security camera within the home, but allows you to stay "in-touch" while on to go. Stay connected with live footage and know that your home and secure. Fees and wires free adds an added bonus for this app.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Reza Kazemi, Suguru Nishioka, Jeff Washer, Dave Ruest, Robert Tran, Biso Shrestha, Pauline Chan, Amanda Koo, Joe May, Piotr Janczyk, Stephanie Bradfield, Charlotte Herbert, Mohammad-Reza Matin, Ian Derbyshire, Anatoli Lariomenco, Scott Cousins, Peter Johnson, Charles Straus; Plantsmap.com by Plants Map, Inc. for Plants Map, Inc.
Horticulture is a community in and of itself. Plantsmap.com allows for people to connect a passion to reality with the capability to document, organize, map, tag and share information about plant collections. Not only perfect your landscape, but in a way that brings a sense of community and connections with those that share the same love for planting.
Credits: Bill Blevins, Co-Founder & CEO Tracy Blevins, Co-Founder & CCO Chris Muldrow, Co-Founder & CTO; Egglist by New Honor Society for Egglist
An "e-Bay" for chicken eggs, this app allows for backyard chicken farmers to place orders based on location and other factors. Very unique way for the farming community to communicate and exchange locally grown food. There is a huge push in today's world about healthy, locally grown foods and Egglist contributes to this new phenomenon.
Credits: Harold Blackorby - Digital Development Director Katie Reuschle - Senior Art Director Meghan Cahill - Copywriter Heidi Singleton - Executive Creative Director Derek Burr - Studio Director Rimante Ivoskaite - Account Supervisor

iPad/Tablet Publishing: Cookbook Cafe by BakeSpace.com for BakeSpace, Inc
BakeSpace gives foodies the opportunity to publish, create, distribute and profit from their own interactive cookbooks. Via BakeSpace.com’s Cookbook Café, authors can publish cookbooks in an ebook or iPad app format to the company’s built-in global audience. To date, thousands of cooks have transitioned to publishers. For cooks simply looking for new dinner or dessert ideas, the site also offers a slew of easily searchable recipes, with the ultimate goal of making the kitchen the place for family and friends to prepare food and socialize.
Credits: Founder, Babette Pepaj, BakeSpace, Inc.; Texture by Next Issue Media for Texture
Love reading magazines but hate the clutter? Texture is a magazine content app from the publishers of Time Inc, Hearst, Meredith and Conde Nast. Users can sign up for weekly or monthly subscription rates, depending on how much media they consume. More than 200 pubs, from PEOPLE, Us Weekly, Wired, GQ, Cosmo, Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly are accessible. Users can read cover-to-cover or flagged pieces by an editorial team. Users can also search topics, like "marathons" in a catalog of 500,000 articles.
Credits: Texture app was developed by the Texture Product Team, led by Chief Technology Officer Keith Barraclough; Made to Measure by WME | IMG for Made to Measure
Made to Measure is a fashion video network that produces original programming, custom videos and interviews with supermodels like Gisele Bündchen and Karlie Kloss, all in the name of following the ever-changing fashion landscape. The app houses a library of fashion films and documentaries, like "Warhol by Bailey" and "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel.” Look for runway shows from Valentino, Chanel, Gucci, Givenchy and Celine. The network’s signature documentary series, M2M Films, highlights people, issues and events that changed the fashion world.
Affiliated Agency: Hello Elephant, LLC: Design and Development
Credits: Jonathan Dube, General Manager, WME|IMG Susan Hootstein, Executive Producer, WME|IMG Mary Kosearas, Director, Editorial Operations, WME|IMG Freddie Mejia, Director, Video Operations, WME|IMG Joshua Kinberg, Director, Digital Products, WME|IMG Kristin Faucher, VP, Hello Elephant Daniele Codega, Creative Director, Hello Elephant Danny Morrow, Technical Lead, Hello Elephant Ivey Inman, Producer, Hello Elephant

Location or Place-Based App: Dorsal Shark Reports by Fruitful Technologies Pty. Ltd for Self Commissioned
With shark attacks a constant threat along Australia's beaches, Fruitful Technologies created Dorsal Shark Reports, a location-based app that combines official sources and public submissions of shark sightings to alert the beach-going public of potential sharks in the area through immediate notifications. Each report is independently verified and includes the time, location and type of sighting, and any photos or video of the sighting. Since launching in November the app has provided information on over 1,000 shark sightings to over 200,000 users.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Allan Bennetto (Founder) Huong Do (iOS Team Leader) Dại Dình (iOS Developer) Hieu Truong (Android Team Leader) Tu Nguyen (Android Developer) Luong Le (Android Developer) Dạt Nguyen Trọng (Frontend Team Leader) Tuan Ha Anh (Backend Developer) Thu Vu (QA Leader) Phong Vu (Tester) Dạt Nguyen Tat (Designer Team Leader) Chi Nguyen (Designer) Le Phan (Delivery Manager) Thanh Tran (Project Manager & Support) Ernest Ramos (Social Media Manager); SpotHero by SpotHero for SpotHero
SpotHero is an on-demand parking reservation app that helps drivers find and reserve parking in garages, lots and by valet at more than 2,500 locations in 13 big cities across the country including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Boston, and Denver. Since launching last year it has helped users find and reserve parking spaces for over two million cars, handling over 100,000 reservations in a typical month. In New York alone over 600 parking facilities have signed on to the app.
Credits: Mark Lawrence, Co-founder and CEO Larry Kiss, Co-founder and CTO Jeremy Smith, Co-founder and Strategic Advisor Free Code: APPYAWARDS; MLB.com Ballpark by MLBAM for MLB
To bolster fan engagement with live baseball, MLB created a new app, MLB.com Ballpark, providing users with customized mobile experiences at each of 30 MLB ballparks. Features include iBeacon, seat and experience upgrades, mobile ticket delivery and Apple Pay for ticket purchases. Fans can use the app to create their own subscription mobile ticket to a block of select games or for the entire season. Teams can further customize the app: for example, the Cincinnati Reds worked with MLB.com to add mobile food ordering.
Credits: MLBAM

Mapping/Location-Based: PIPs Rewards by PIPs for PIPs
Designed to promote responsible and sustainable activity, PIPs Rewards operates like a cross between FourSquare and Groupon, steering people towards more responsible choices within their neighborhoods. The app tries to identify rewardable moments to reinforce positive behaviors in users like using their rewards to donate directly to charity. The app also highlights businesses and buildings that align with its philosophy, and is developing fitness and group games that will promote health amongst its users.
Credits: Wendy Gordon, Co-Founder, PIPs - Gordon had worked with NRDC, started the non-profit Mothers and Others with Meryl Streep and launched The Green Guide (later acquired by National Geographic). David Sand, Co-Founder, PIPs - Sand was the first program officer at CERES, a non-profit organization advocating for sustainable leadership for businesses, and then went on to have a successful career in impact investing. Yaniv Eyny, CTO, PIPs & CEO, Novelution and Evan Sable, CTO, Novelution - Eyny and Sable are the software developers behind the PIPs platform. They are both extremely experienced technology experts with backgrounds in behavioral science and flexible software design.; Egglist by New Honor Society for Egglist
The Egglist identifies backyard chicken farmers, whose eggs tend to be of a higher quality than those that can be bought at a supermarket. The app was launched by marketing agency the New Honor Society, and allows users to locate and place orders with backyard farmers directly. Farmers can post different egg types and quantities, and buyers can rate sellers as well. The app itself is has a clean design and is easy and intuitive to use.
Credits: Harold Blackorby - Digital Development Director Katie Reuschle - Senior Art Director Meghan Cahill - Copywriter Heidi Singleton - Executive Creative Director Derek Burr - Studio Director Rimante Ivoskaite - Account Supervisor; WingX Pro7 for iOS by Hilton Software LLC for WingX Pro7
WingX Pro7 is a multi-platform navigation tool designed for pilots. Users can plan and share flight routes, record flight details, the app also has a ground proximity alarm, and a search and rescue function that aids first responders. All told, it’s jam packed with tools that take advantage of mobile device’s navigational capabilities without taking up an unnecessary amount of space on the device.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Hilton Goldstein, CEO & Chief Architect, Hilton Software LLC

Marketing/Branding/Advertising: Post Creator by Post Creator LLC for None
Perfect for the small business that can’t afford to hire a graphics agency, Post Creator allows users to create impactful, effective social media posts that can go up on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Pinterest accounts all at once. Users can take photos right from the app, then insert messages and add a logo to make engaging branded content. Launched within the last 12 months, Post Creator now has over 5,750 subscribers who have posted over 18,500 posts using Post Creator.
Affiliated Agency: None
Credits: Bill Replogle, CEO Post Creator LLC Brian Williams, CEO Viget Labs, Inc.; DC All Access by DC Entertainment for DC
DC fans have it made with DC All Access, designed to deliver the best of the DC universe across all manner of entertainment platforms anytime. Features include news, exclusives, an emoji keyboard, community conversations and fan forums, comic previews, polls and quizzes, deals on products, rewards, and special offers only to app users. This is truly a long-term fan engagement approach. The app consistently maintains a 4.5-star rating among customers.
Affiliated Agency: SISU - Design Support; TOP FAN; platform
Credits: Sam Ades, VP Digital Marketing, DC Entertainment Lisette Osterloh, Director, Product - Digital Marketing, DC Entertainment Ben Battistelli, Manager, DCAA App, DC Entertainment Nathan Feldman, Director- Production, WB Digital Ken Kupis, Producer, WB Digital; Stash by AD:60, INC for Stash Invest
I once bought a wallet with a Casio calculator built in and I thought, “I’m gonna be rich!” as I’d be able to track my spending, etc. Not so much. But the Stash app offers new hope. It is compelling and designed to take users from traditional savings methods into the world of investment. Especially for the mathematically challenged among us, it removes barriers through simple and structural sections, MyStash Discover and Account. It’s distinguished by its branding and design.
Credits: Yoann Chalet Stephanie Miller David Hyman Carlos Aquino Jason Reposa Julia Landry

mCommerce or Mobile Payments: Invoice2go by Invoice2go for Invoice2go
Invoice2go allows business owners and freelancers track work and collect payments in an easy-to-use, streamlined app. Using a mobile payments feature powered by Stripe Connect, any sized business owner can be paid by debit and credit card. Having the invoicing and mobile payments under one umbrella makes the process faster and easier to track. On average, Invoice2go customers receive payments in four days or less.
Credits: Chris Stode, Founder and and Chief Product Officer at Invoice2go.; Cardpool Mobile App by Cardpool for Cardpool
Cardpool is an app where users can sell unwanted gift cards and purchase ones more suited to their taste. Users can transfer unwanted cards virtually, without having to mail them in. Consumers can earn cash or an Amazon gift card by selling unwanted ones. Once users find their retailer of choice, they can also redeem gift cards through the app. Cardpool also stores all gift cards in-house, allowing consumers to keep track of all usage, balances and brands.
Affiliated Agency: The Bold Italic, Copywriting; CSTMR, Visual Design
Credits: • Product Owner: Jaime Rodriguez, Jr. • Product Manager: Lindsay Wong • UX Design Lead: Mattthew "Trip" Brauer • App Development Lead: Robert Bernal • App Service Lead: Scott Stodghill, XCelsior, Inc. • Services Development Lead: Kevin Hockey • Project Manager: Crystal Stauber • Marketing Director: Brett Potts; Miami HEAT App by SapientNitro for The Miami HEAT
The Miami HEAT created an app where fans can truly customize their interaction with the team. The app uses real-time customization, based on a user’s interests, location and time, to provide appropriate content tailored specifically to each individual user. The app also made buying game tickets a seamless operation. In the first two months of the app’s launch, more than 43,000 tickets were purchased in-app. The HEAT now makes more mobile revenue than every other team in the NBA… combined.
Credits: James Allen: Creative Director Andrew Goldstein: Creative Director Eddie Gomez: Creative Director Gessica Tortolano: Associate Creative Director Mauricio Carrasco: Associate Creative Director Daniel Vasquez: Senior Designer Monica Cleves: Senior Experience Designer Kylin Johnson: Senior Copywriter Frank Gomez: Associate Creative Director Matt Kelsen: Associate Creative Director Angicel Morales: Account Director Chanel Abislaiman: Account Director Greg Cordaro: Director, Marketing Strategy & Analysis Julie Mantis: Manager, Marketing Strategy & Analysis Mohit Mediratta: Senior Manager, Program Management Alison Pearce: Manager, Program Management Anton Fajardo: Senior Manager, Technology Hemi Trickey: Senior Manager, Mobile Solutions Mike Blank: Director, Technology Ben Wakeman: Senior Manager, Mobile Solutions

Medical: Heal - doctor house calls for adults and kids by Heal for Heal
Bringing back the venerable practice of the house call, Heal allows users to request a personal visit by a doctor, bringing Uber-style efficiency to medical treatment. Users can pay their co-pay in app, or pay $99 for an out-of-network visit, and choose from physician categories including pediatricians, general practice and family practice. Currently available in Los Angeles, San Diego and the Bay Area, Heal is expanding to other cities in the near future. Users can schedule visits from 8 am to 8 pm, including holidays.
Credits: Renee Dua: Founder/Chief Medical Officer Nick Desai: Co-Founder/CEO; LesserSoundApp by LesserSound for www.LesserSoundApp.com
People at risk of hearing loss know they should avoid loud noises, but does every loud noise represent a threat? LesserSound is an app that allows them to determine when a noisy environment is too noisy. Within five seconds of opening the app, it measures the decibels in the user's environment and displays a color-coded measurement, including warnings when there is risk of hearing loss. The app has been endorsed by the Hearing Loss Association of America and the Hearing Health Foundation.
Credits: Wayne Lesser - Founder Lorraine Lesser - Founder Sharon Basile - Website Design Jeannine Lewis - Director of Marketing Mathew Barksdale - President, Engage Media Lisa McCool - Engage Media - Creative; First Response App by Meredith Xcelerated Marketing (MXM) for Church & Dwight/First Response
Meredith Xcelerated Marketing brought pregnancy tests into the 21st century with the Pregnancy PRO App for First Response's mobile-enabled pregnancy test, which connects to smartphones via Bluetooth. The app's features include Bluetooth instructions, a visual countdown timer, and relaxing content to distract the user during the three minutes waiting for a test result. For pregnant women, the app goes on to provide a personalized action plan and information about nutrition, the different stages of pregnancy, and related topics.
Credits: Lisa Borak – Director, Global New Product Innovation, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Wendy Bishop – Brand Manager, Women’s Health, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Rithika Naik – Product Manager, Women’s Health, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Emily Kaplan – Senior Manager, Digital Strategy, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Tim Snowden – Research Manager, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Mary-Beth Boyle – Senior Research Chemist, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Amy Karbiwynk - Product Manager, Global New Product Innovation, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Howard Hunt, Director of Client Services, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Steve Morrisey, Project Director, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Michael Broadman, Business Analyst, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Satyanaveen Vysetty, Solutions Architect, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Ryan Flynn, Director of User Experience, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Gregory Gallagher, Visual Designer, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Kelley Shea, Strategist, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing Lisa Powys, Account Executive, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing

Messaging: MailTime by MailTime for MailTime
MailTime trumps other messenger apps where users can only message people who are on the same platform. MailTime solves that problem, leveraging email protocol to make sending email as fast and convenient as texting. That means users can chat with anyone with an email account — and simplify their email experience on mobile devices. People today want a quick and easy way to communicate, and MailTime delivers with a service that blurs the lines between emailing and texting with a text-like user interface.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Heatherm Huang, Founder and CEO, MailTime; NetSfere by Infinite Convergence for N/A
NetSfere provides organizations with a secure platform for business communication. The messaging service enables employees to securely communicate potentially sensitive business information in real time over a user-friendly web interface or mobile messaging app. NetSfere also boasts robust message delivery, ensuring seamless message delivery via IP Push, MMS and SMS under all circumstances, including instances of poor coverage. Through NetSfere’s administrative control panel, IT personnel have centralized control of end-user policies, enabling IT teams to manage what information employees exchange through the app.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: • NetSfere Product Development Team, Infinite Convergence Solutions; bingee by Cover Media Labs, Inc. for bingee
Bingee is geared toward communications between those watching the same TV programing. It is transforming the solitary phenomenon of binge-watching into an engaging social event. You can see what others are watching and join in, or start a new bingee for whatever you're watching, or schedule a bingee for the show you'll watch later. Bingee doesn't stream the content -- you watch your show as you do today (on your TV or laptop) while you chat and share with others on a second screen.
Credits: Jason Harrison Co-Founder, CEO Cover Media Labs, Inc. Shylaja Ramachandra Co-Founder, VP Engineering Cover Media Labs, Inc.

Multicultural Media App: QuickCall.com by SRVR LLC for QuickCall.com
QuickCall.com utilizes its international calling network to provide a social and business calling solution for users, eliminating the need for access numbers and PINs. It is especially valuable for the millions of people in the U.S. and Canada who face challenges when making calls to their home countries because of technology restrictions or when free WiFi calling is not available. The app also provides free chat and free calls and messages to others using the app, in-app payments, app sharing and account management.
Credits: Simona Dragan, CIO, SRVR LLC Cornel Craciun, IT Manager, SRVR LLC Yingqiu Zhu, Digital Specialist, SRVR LLC Vasilica Popa, Senior Software Developer, SRVR LLC Catalin Toader, Senior Software Developer, SRVR LLC; Dove Love Your Curls Emoji Keyboard by Snaps for Unilever
Building on its 2015 campaign celebrating curly hair, Dove Hair drove a movement that gained momentum through social media and messaging as women shared their stories and selfies. Dove partnered with Snaps to create the Dove Love Your Curls Emoji Keyboard -- bringing curly hair to the emoji, which only portrayed straight-haired women. Fostering appreciation of curls and self-expression among users, the hugely successful campaign resulted in 10 million impressions through messaging and over 905,000 downloads of the keyboard, surpassing its goal by 400%.
Affiliated Agency: Ogilvy, Mindshare, Edelman
Credits: Christian Brucculeri- CEO, Snaps Vivian Rosenthal- Founder, Snaps Chris Brown- Director of Accounts, Snaps Austin Bone- VP of Product, Snaps Chao Liao - Director of Partnership, Snaps Yago Busquets- Design & Motion Graphics, Snaps; Surge - Gay Dating App for Gay Chat & Meeting Single Gay Men by Surge for STRV s.r.o.
Lavendr, the STRV-backed gay dating and social networking app that spun off into its own company earlier this year, has rebranded to Surge. Surge has seen the most rapid growth among gay dating apps in the U.S. and was voted the #2 on the top ten best dating apps. It's also the most-searched gay dating app in the Apple App Store. With approximately 350,000 monthly active users, the app also leads in the Apple App Store for such keywords as "gay dating."
Affiliated Agency: STRV - Investor
Credits: David Semerad - CEO - STRV Martin Stava - CTO - Surge Jakub Vodak - Development Team Lead - Surge Ilya Novodvorskiy - Sales - STRV Berenika Alexandre - Head of Growth - Surge Lubo Smid - COO - STRV

Music: Futuri’s iRadio Mobile App by Futuri Media for iRadio
iRadio offers an engaging interface with a small wealth of functions like going on air live to request songs or an alarm clock. The goal of the app is to engage customers in an increasingly fragmented music streaming space—the app hopes to grow the number of mobile audiences and live tune-ins. Users can listen to specific songs and streams, as well as record and send call-ins to live radio shows in order to request specific songs.
Credits: Brian Seeders - CTO Alex Boruz - Mobile App Developer Craig Bowman, SVP Technology Daniel Anstandig, CEO; Guvera by Guvera for n/a
Guvera is an app funded by brands that offers free legal access to music tracks. Originally developed to combat piracy through a branded entertainment model, the app is full of curated playlists, stations, and user recommendations as well as original editorial content. Users have access to 30 million songs both from the US and international artists. It has been designed to support low data mobile networks, and can advance buffer songs to avoid data charges for those with restricted data plans.
Credits: Founders: Claes Loberg and Darren Herft CTO: Damien King Head of Product: Robb Snell; HTC Mood Player by SapientNitro for HTC
The HTC Spotify Mood Player takes a novel approach to music discovery—it scans facial user expressions and offers a curated playlist that can match or counter the mood analyzed. Users can wallow in their bad moods, get even happier, or share their moods with friends. Facial recognition software isn’t always the cleanest, but with HTC’s mobile brains and Spotify’s music muscle the solution makes music discovery a fun and surprising journey.
Affiliated Agency: Spotify - Media Platform - Joint Ideation Role, OMG - Media Agency - Media Placement Role
Credits: Mark Hunter - ECD, SapientNitro Andre Hull - CD, SapientNitro Dan Eagles - Producer, SapientNitro Adam Hosfal - SAD, SapientNitro Sarah Burns - Project Manager, SapientNitro

Photography: Newzulu by Newzulu for Newzulu
With journalism in a steady state of diminishing returns, it is ironic that a mobile app comes along to stem the free-fall. Now that, let’s face it, anyone can be a photographer Newzulu offers a way for professionals to keep earning a buck. Anyone anywhere can share news, get published and get paid. And, with bureaus worldwide and partnerships with Getty Images, the AP and AFP, it’s almost like the old days. It may bring a tear to an old newsie’s eye.
Credits: Damien Gosset, VP Mobile, Newzulu; Fontmania by Apalon for N/A
Who doesn’t want to be a graphic artist and impress friends and family with professional-looking photos with words on them. Can you say meme? Fontmania lets users add exclusive, unique fonts and colors to bring photos to life and comes in several languages and alphabets. It is so easy to use, even a Boomer could learn to play with scale, filters, colors, opacity, shadows, size and tilt! A post on Facebook later and it’s, “Wow! How’d you do that?”
Credits: Apalon's Fontmania Team; PixelSquid - Add 3D Objects to Your Photos by PixelSquid for PixelSquid
This app takes the user beyond the flat surface of design by adding the ability to create 3-D photorealistic objects to photos. Built for professional designers, PixelSquid’s 3-D objects add a depth to your photos or memes that will draw attention and admiration. The app is also very easy to manipulate with fingertips and instructions are easily understood. This makes 3-D look like child’s play because it is!
Credits: Mark Kurt - Product Manager/CTO (TurboSquid) Dade Orgeron - Executive Creative Director (TurboSquid)

Privacy/Online Security: Dashlane by Dashlane for Dashlane
The only thing more irksome than thinking up strong passwords is then keeping track of them all. Therein lies the beauty of Dashlane -- a free password manager for mobile and desktop. Along with creating and saving impenetrable passwords, we love the auto-fill feature. Even better is Dashlane’s digital wallet function, which stores your bank account info for secure online shopping, and then saves your purchase receipts. With security top-of-mind for so many consumers, today, installing Dashlane should be on top of their to-do list.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Emmanuel Schalit, CEO Alexis Fogel, Co-Founder & VP of Product Jean Guillou, Co-Founder & Software Architect Guillaume Maron, Co-Founder & Core Technology Architect Bernard Liautaud, Co-Founder; CM Security by Cheetah Mobile for Cheetah Mobile
What doesn’t CM Security do? That’s an easier question to answer considering the free app’s seemingly limitless feature list. With AppLock, it secures your private data by locking apps so that only you can see the contents. With Intruder Selfie, it captures a photo of the person who incorrectly enters your passcode. With Wi-Fi Security, it warns you against malicious Wi-Fi hotspots. No wonder this Cheetah Mobile product has downloaded over 500 millions times, and has a consistent user rating of 4.7 out of 5.
Credits: Sheng Fu, CEO of Cheetah Mobile Ming Xu, President of Cheetah Mobile; True Key by Intel Security by Intel Security for Intel
You’re more unique than any series of digits. That’s the thinking behind True Key by Intel Security -- an ingenious password manager that turns your face, your fingerprint, or your trusted mobile device into a password. To make the login process as secure as you like, the app also allows you to modify your level of protection using multiple factors in combination, instead of relying on only a single password. The innovation has led to key partnerships with HP, Lenovo, Dell, Deutsche Telekom, and others.
Credits: Mark Hocking, Vice President of Safe Identity, Intel Security Dan Robichaud, VP Innovations Safe Identity, Intel Security Richard Reiner, Chief Technology Officer Safe Identity, Intel Security

Productivity: PopBoardz by PopBoardz for PopBoardz
Great storytelling is a gift. But, if it doesn’t come naturally, PopBoardz has got you covered. The app helps you break any presentation down into 16 tiles, which can easily be filled with PDFs, images, videos, and Websites. It’s simpler and more intuitive than PowerPoint, so just about anyone can create media-aided stories with minimal time and energy. The app also serves as a great compliment to a PowerPoint presentation, which can actually be included as a tile, and then accompanied by other supporting material.
Credits: Peter Stougaard CEO cofounder Joe Matza coFounder Stephen Bradley Tech Lead coFounder; Hound by SoundHound Inc. for SoundHound inc.
Between Siri, Cortana, Google Now, and Amazon’s Alexa, is there room for another voice-activated digital assistant? Sound Hound makes a good argument that there is indeed. The app’s strengths include navigation, local search, and weather tracking, but it can help you find just about anything -- and it does so by recognizing natural speech rather special keywords. Not exactly short on ambition, Sound Hound is on a mission to replace the “touch and tap” interface on which most mobile users currently rely.
Credits: Keyvan Mohajer, CEO and Founder, SoundHound Inc.; GoToMeeting by Citrix for Citrix
For the purposes of productivity, it’s hard to imagine a more perfect companion than GoToMeeting’s mobile app. With its One-Touch Dialer, joining a meeting with up to 100 clients, partners or colleagues is just a tap away. Making for the best possible viewing experience, the app integrates VoIP, telephone and HD video. The also conveniently pairs with various email applications like Microsoft Outlook, while, during meetings, a virtual whiteboard feature allows users to draw, highlight and point out relevant material right on the screen.
Credits: Citrix Systems

Reference: Pocket Mentor by Pocket Mentor for Pocket Mentor
Is there an app for professional success? Well, that’s the idea behind Pocket Mentor. After walking aspiring moguls through a brief assessment to determine their unique purpose and strengths, the app helps them set career-boosting goals and then take appropriate actions. Features include tip sheets, meeting and event reminders, a searchable library of counseling topics, and easy sharing with colleagues. Adding a human component to the process, the app even enables personalized feedback from a team of seasoned business pros.
Affiliated Agency: Year Up - A nonprofit organization that connects low-income young adults who need opportunity with companies who need talent. A portion of Pocket Mentor profits go to Year Up.
Credits: Caren Merrick - CEO & Founder, Pocket Mentor Full Stack - Developer Partner; Dictionary.com by Dictionary.com for Dictionary.com
This ain’t your Daddy’s dictionary. Going far beyond English definitions, Dictionary.com now boasts audio pronunciations, voice search, translations for over 30 languages, word origins, synonyms, and spelling suggestions. And, for a few bucks, paid subscribers can access an encyclopedia, a slang dictionary, idioms and phrases, example sentences, as well as medical, science, and rhyming dictionaries. The digitally-native dictionary currently enjoys 70 million monthly users worldwide, over 100 million mobile app downloads, and more than 19 million people who receive its popular Word of the Day.
Credits: Richard Bullwinkle, VP of products Anura Bhavnagar, iOS developer Arturo Fernandez, senior software engineer Yair Kukielka, Android developer Matt Johnson, Android developer Marina Zabryanskiy, QA engineer Anna Shybkouskaya, QA engineer Lauren Sliter, marketing manager; Ancestry by Ancestry for Ancestry
The best apps improve on our personal connections, and few take this idea further than The Ancestry. Indeed, the app invites users to discover, preserve and share their entire family history. To win over Android users, the genealogy company worked directly with designers and engineers at Google. New features include record search, which allows users to find, view, evaluate and merge historical documents from Ancestry’s massive database. As a result, the app has now been downloaded over 14 million times across Android and iOS platforms.
Credits: Kendall Hulet, Dan Lawyer (VP, Product Management), Kory Garner, Cody Mortensen (UX Designer, Product Management), Landon Hulet (Product Management Intern), Finn Larson Matt Rasmussen, Wesley Cook (Senior Development Manager, Development), Gary Mangum

Restaurants/Food/Beverage: XValues by Wine Spectator for Wine Spectator
Wine Spectator is a trusted brand to many. That's why XValues is set up for success, with its easy-to-use wine app. Stay informed on some of the most highly rated wines. XValues offers ratings at different price points, for all users, whether on a budget or looking to splurge.
Credits: Jessica Shanken, Vice President/Business Development, M. Shanken Communications, Inc.; Chuz App by Chuz App for Chuz
Everyone is always looking up the newest hot spot to eat and socialize. Chuz App offers a spot for you and friends to find the perfect location to dine, all around your mood. Not only is Chuz a source of information, but it has a social media aspect to connect with friends within the interface.
Affiliated Agency: PBMC (public relations firm for Chuz)
Credits: Eirini Schlosser (CEO & Founder) Lisa Hom (Chief Content Officer & Co-Founder) Konstantinos Kamperis (Designer) George Termentzoglou (iOS Developer); Coca-Cola Freestyle by Bottle Rocket for Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Freestyle allows for an interactive experience, giving consumers the option to mix, pour and enjoy. Everyone loves the opportunity to mix their favorite flavors together, creating their own custom drink.
Affiliated Agency: OgilvyOne Atlanta
Credits: 1. Scott Cuppari / Coca-Cola Freestyle / Global Director, Marketing 2. Calvin Carter / Bottle Rocket / Founder & CEO 3. Caitlyn Faubion / Bottle Rocket / Account Manager 4. Kathleen Gareiss / OgilvyOne Atlanta / Managing Director 5. Connor Hill / Bottle Rocket / Design, Strategy 6. Adam Newman / Bottle Rocket / Android Architect 7. Jing Chang / Bottle Rocket / Android Engineer 8. Bill Francis / Bottle Rocket / Engineering Manager 9. Shweta Bhalala / Bottle Rocket / Quality Assurance 10. Caitlin Tarantino / Bottle Rocket / Quality Assurance 11. Justin DeLibris / Bottle Rocket / Quality Assurance 12. Michael Baum / Bottle Rocket / Project Management 13. Eko Tracker / Bottle Rocket / Project Management

Retail: CF SHOP! App – Where it all comes together. by SapientNitro for Cadillac Fairview
So many malls, so little time. Cadillac Fairview’s app, the CF SHOP, connects shoppers to 20 malls throughout Canada. For shoppers, the app supplies hours, promotions and store directories, helping customers find what they need while in-store. The app also provides text concierge service, a park-aide so someone will remember where you parked and personalized lists. For Cadillac Fairview’s content managers, having all 20 malls consolidated into a single app allows them to update content easier and faster.
Credits: ECD: Howie Howatson CD: Alison Garnett ACD: Graham Ameron, Joseph Gatto Account: Mark Anthony, Candice Dehond, Designers: Sophie Cao Developer/technology: • Ilia Lekhter, Rowan Kerr (Architecture Lead) • Tarun Kumar (infrastructure) • Senthil Raja Ramalingam(QA tester) • Uttam Rout (QA Manager) • Surbhi Jain (iOS Developer) • Ankur Jain (Android Developer) • Vindya Rani (Android Developer) Project Management: • Tahsin Hocanin • Daniel Choi Analytics: • Gregory Kent • Hemash Bhatti; The Home Depot by The Home Depot for The Home Depot
The Home Depot’s app aims to make store navigation easier. While shopping in-store, the In-Store Experience pools the most relevant features to the user’s homescreen. It allows shoppers to organize shopping lists, navigate the store without getting lost, along with eyeing in-store deals. For customers shopping via the app, there are product ratings and reviews, a question and answer page, and product. Users can also search by text with intelligent type-ahead recommendations, voice dictation, barcode scanning, or by snapping a picture of a similar item.
Credits: The Home Depot Mobile App Team: Matt Jones, Sr. Director Casey Rivera, Sr. Manager David Smith, Product Manager Jon Easton, Product Analyst Camille Aig-Imoukuede, Product Analyst Rajesh Shetty, Development Manager Rajesh Thevar, Lead IT Architect Candra Gill, UX Architect Jeremy Gill, UX Designer Countless other members of The Home Depot Online Team; L.L. Bean Mobile App by SapientNitro for L.L. Bean
L.L. Bean created an app to help users navigate its large retail stores and for those shopping at home a way to check inventory before leaving the house. Users can scan a barcode in-store and receive product details, colors and buying options. Consumers can also purchase items in-app for pick up in-store. Since the app’s launch, L.L. Bean has seen the average order value be the highest in-app, compared to other digital options.
Credits: [SAPIENTNITRO] Matt Eisnor- Client Partner Randy Harbin- ACD Design Lisa Kile- DoPM Rachel Birchler- Program Manager Dawn Bovasso- ACD- Content Strategy Meredith Lambert- Senior UX Lead Sarah Jones- Content Strategy Michelle Melino- Art Director Santosh Pawar- Sr. Business Analyst Julia Swearer- UX Designer Yi Liu – UX Designer Jim Leonard- Designer

Social Sharing: Pushdot by Nomadic for Nomadic
Pushdot helps users share networking details with a few taps of their finger. With Pushdot, you can take all of your meaningful social media profiles, web addresses and email and more and share them with people you are networking with faster and easier than ever before. However, iI gives you control over who sees what since you individually select which links to share with others. This app could make business cards obsolete.
Affiliated Agency: CreItive
Credits: Ziad Ghosn( founder, Nomadic) Stephanie Khouri (co-founder , Nomadic) Ghassan Adib (operations, Nomadic); HI-FI by Life in HI-FI, Inc. for Life in HI-FI
HI-FI is a social networking app that focuses on users’ interests with an Interest-Driven Network. It allows users to create the ultimate newsfeed, where they can pick and follow the topics that interest them. It aims to solve some of the biggest problems confronting mobile users today: information-choice overload, cluttered newsfeeds, disorganized search results and irrelevant ads. Communities on HI-FI achieve a new level of relevance, featuring curated collections of news and lifestyle content, built around members’ enthusiasms and inspirations.
Credits: Winder Hughes, CEO and Chairman, Life in HI-FI, Inc.; Picpal by Myndbee for Picpal
Picpal is a photo collage chat app used mostly by teens and young Millennials. It allows for simultaneous photo collages between up to three friends who are in separate locations. Users can add filters and text to build visual chats with a group. Picpal then combines these images into one, updatable collage that users can share across their social media accounts if they choose. It offers semi-private yet sharable content that is only publically shareable on their terms.
Credits: Mahesh Rajagopalan - Cofounder & CEO Rajesh Srivathsa - Cofounder Vish Desai - VP Engineering Eleni Murphy - Marketing

Sports: 2015 Rugby World Cup Mobile App by Omnigon for World Rugby
The app enables fans around the world to immerse themselves in the Rugby World Cup 2015 experience and allowed them to share the tournament buzz with fellow fans regardless of location. Features included live and post-match stats for all matches, live match audio streaming, expert blogging during matches, video highlights, in-venue messaging and a robust Social Media hub. Fans can continue to view archival World Cup videos and participate in trivia quizzes against fellow fans.
Credits: Murray Barnett, World Rugby - Commercial Director World Rugby Project team Alex Chamberlen, Omnigon - MD, Omnigon UK Omnigon Project team; CBS Sports App by CBS Sports for CBS SPorts
The CBS Sports app offers quick, one-stop shopping for all things sports including scores and news. Features include scoreboards delivering real-time score updates and GameTrackers. The app sends 434 million personalized mobile app notifications a month which allows CBS Sports to reach its audience with important news, information, or tune-in reminders. The app was built to serve the serious sports fan, elevating scores and data while offering news and analysis with a layer of personalization to cater to each fan’s tastes.
Credits: Jeffrey R. Gerttula - SVP & GM, CBSSports.com; Levi's Stadium App by VenueNext for San Francisco 49ers
Every major sports stadium should take page for the Levi’s Stadium app. It enhances game day experiences with features including mobile tickets and parking passes, mobile ordering of food and beverages, wayfinding to navigate around the building, and a “game center” for high-definition video replays. Levi’s Stadium gained over $2 million in revenue and cost savings from food, beverages, merchandise, parking, and in-app sponsorships using the platform. Levi’s also realized 30% mobile app adoption (compared to the industry standard of 5%),
Credits: John Paul (our CEO & Founder), Jed York (CEO of San Francisco 49ers), Mark Wan (co-founding general partner at Causeway Media Partners), Brano Perkovich (CIO of San Francisco 49ers)

Travel & Tourism: Skyscanner Flights App by Skyscanner for Skyscanner
Unless you’re rich, cheap is a cherished word in any travel vocabulary. Be it flights, hotels or car rentals, avid travelers live for good deals, especially on the go. Since its makeover, the app features a top deals section, highlighting low-cost flights from your nearest airport and a color chart that keeps price variations clear. It’s informative and helpful. With over 35 million downloads, the app is a slick travel, available in 30 languages. Or in common parlance, smooth sailing.
Credits: Skyscanner apps team, led by Balint Orosz, Head of Apps Product; Expedia by Expedia for Expedia
Let your fingers do the walking. The one-stop shopping app means it’s a breeze to plan your trip and itinerary on mobile. The app for Apple Watch provides real-time updates for hotel check-ins and flight status, while a new deal section notes the cheapest time to fly. The update paid off: Mobile visitors grew by 60% in 2015, with mobile booking comprising 42% of all conversions. Clean, efficient and helpful, it’s the easy way to fly — while earthbound.
Credits: John Kim, Senior Vice President, Global Product at Expedia.com Noah Lucas, Senior Product Manager, Mobile at Expedia.com Jerald Singh, Senior Director, Product Management at Expedia.com Linda Bao, Product Marketing Manager, Mobile at Expedia.com; Radisson RED by runtriz for Carlson Rezidor
Radisson Red ensures you’ll never speak to a desk clerk again. The clean, breezy Red app lets you get your room number before arrival and check-in via mobile. Order drinks or food from the OuiBar, request housekeeping or chat with fellow guests at the touch of a tab. The staff then snaps to attention, making language barriers obsolete. Plus, a special curated city guide gives visitors a head’s up on local offerings. So much for face-to-face service! These days, it’s all in the wrist.
Affiliated Agency: Teviot - Design
Credits: Matt Allard - CEO @ runtriz Alonso Vargas - CTO @ runtriz Josh Gunderson - Digital Product Manager @ Carlson Rezidor Sandra Loeffler - Team Lead, Information Technology Hotel Systems, Americas @ Carlson Rezidor

Utilities/Device Enhancement: Viper SmartStart by MJD for Viper
With dated aesthetics and functionality keeping their app behind the competition, Viper tapped MJD to revamp their connected car mobile app into something that well exceeds its value. Through focusing on UX, Viper StartSmart 4.0 is a modernization of their take on integrating mobile into the automotive experience. Made for the modern driver, the new app can geolocate you car, send you status updates, and lock or start your car all through your phone.
Credits: This test account will allow you to use the full app, testing on boards that mimic hardware installed on vehicles. username: apps@mjdinteractive.com password: k1x7sU$g; MyScript Calculator by MyScript for MyScript
There's nothing more frustrating than navigating a complicated calculator app. The team at MyScript decided that it's best we do away with buttons and do math the natural way. Easy, simple, and intuitive, the MyScript Calculator allows you to write whole mathematical expressions on your screen. Your symbols are then converted to digital text and solved for you in real time. With functionalities like undo/redo, calculation history, and result export, the MyScript Calculator brings life to the phrase "Math made easy!"
Credits: Product Marketing Manager: Giovanni Rodriguez Product Manager: Fabien Ric Product Director: Denis Manceau; Hound by SoundHound Inc. for SoundHound Inc.
Hound brings ease to a frustrating - and sometimes hilarious - voice-recognition software market. With over 10 years of meticulous development, Hound was built around allowing the user to "speak naturally." No longer will you have to worry about your accent or rehearse what you're going to say, Hound can recognize, filter based on later suggestions, and give you answers with speed and accuracy of a experienced personal assistant.
Affiliated Agency: Moxie Communications, PR
Credits: Keyvan Mohajer, CEO and Founder

Wearables: Lufthansa Apple Watch by SapientNitro for Lufthansa
Lufthansa created an Apple Watch app with help from SapientNitro to help travelers through their journey, from airport to inflight to their final destination. The app displays up to date information on the state of the flight, information on security screenings, and how to find the lounges and boarding gates. The app launched in tandem with the Apple Watch in Germany. Since the release date, travelers downloaded the app more than 1.900.000 times, up 655% compared to the daily average.
Credits: Andreas Becker - Account Director, SapientNitro Danusch Mahmoudi - Creative Director, SapientNitro Dario Korati - User Experience Design Lead, SapientNitro Frederik Spahrkäs - Art Director, SapientNitro Noha Nada - User Experience Designer, , SapientNitro Nicole Krusch - Designer, SapientNitro Stefan Jager - Developer, SapientNitro Vinzent Kuhn - Program Manager, SapientNitro; Fitnet by Fitnet for Brand
Fitnet created a personal trainer in an Apple Watch app using a "selfie cam" that provides instant feedback on performance. The user's workout is scored based on their movement compared with the trainer's movement through the biometric webcam feature. Users can access more than 250 yoga, cardio or strength training workouts or the 7DayFit customized fitness program on a mobile app, Apple Watch, as well as Google Chromecast or Apple TV.
Affiliated Agency: AR|PR- PR and Integrated Marketing Agency of Record for Fitnet
Credits: Bob Summers, Chief Geek of Fitnet Laurie Maddox, Director of Fitness Daniel Burgess, Lead Software Engineer Todd Bowden, iOS Engineer; UnitedHealthcare Motion by UnitedHealthcare for UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare Motion brought real-life incentives into healthcare regiments to get people active. While the program provides eligible employees with wearable devices at no charge, it also enables them to earn up to $1,460 per year by meeting certain goals like reaching a number of daily steps. The physical program also links with services that incorporate the latest generation of wearables, medical devices and home diagnostic tests from Qualcomm Life’s 2net platform.
Affiliated Agency: Qualcomm Life - data transfer and security
Credits: Peter Plamann, vice president, UnitedHealthcare Steve Beecy, vice president, UnitedHealthcare Derek Springer, director, UnitedHealthcare

Weather: My Weather Concierge by My Weather Concierge for My Weather Concierge
This app is a throwback to when users had a favorite weather person. Unlike other impersonal apps, My Weather Concierge, a freemium app delivering in-depth forecasts from the country’s top meteorologists. Weather people whose names are attached to each forecast, who zero-in locally, can update minute-by-minute during big weather events, and even chat with those who follow them. Participating meteorologists pocket a majority of the revenue from monthly subscriptions to their My Weather Concierge channels.
Credits: Jason Bowman, Co-Founder, My Weather Concierge Stephen Reisman, Co-Founder, My Weather Concierge Hans Zaunere, President, Stackware Bojan Kostadinovic, Director, Stackware; AccuWeather – Weather for Life (for iOS) by AccuWeather for Brand
AccuWeather MinuteCast provides hyper-localized data specific to a user’s exact street address or GPS location and includes precipitation type and intensity, as well as start and end times. It's precision is unmatched by other apps, providing the only global minute-by-minute precipitation forecast for a given area over the next two hours. Another feature, AccUcast, is the only crowdsourcing tool with a live crowdsourced weather map providing current weather conditions and any potential hazardous conditions submitted by users in a global animation display.
Credits: AccuWeather - Weather for Life was created by the AccuWeather cross-functional mobile team, including team members representing design, development, IT, product management, and more.; WeatherBug by Earth Networks for Earth Networks
The app delivers neighborhood-level weather, forecasts, and advanced severe weather alerts. Earth networks deploys over 10,000 weather stations, in neighborhoods, compared to other services that have just over 2,000 stations deployed primarily at airports and locations that can be miles away from the user. Its Spark feature provides a real-time lightning strike map showing minute-by-minute, mile-by-mile lightning proximity alerts. Lifestyle features extend beyond traditional weather features, with data that improves how consumers manage home energy usage.
Credits: Thomas Spendley, CIO

Wildcard: Adobe Capture CC by Adobe for Adobe
Adobe’s Capture CC app allows creatives to create and edit work for use in professional-grade projects. Brushes, colors, filters and shapes can be used in the Capture app, along with the Adobe Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC apps. Upgrades like Adobe Stock to a Creative Cloud subscription gives users access to browse and license stock images within the app. Designers can also create color themes from images on a mobile device, which can be edited to a specific theme, and turn objects into vector-based shapes.
Credits: David Ericksen, Senior Product Manager, Adobe Raghuram C G, Group Program Manager, Adobe Chris Nuuja, Senior Engineering Manager, Adobe; VegasVR by R&R Partners for Las Vegas Convention Visitors Authority
Las Vegas launched a virtual reality app that allows fans of Sin City to be there without actually leaving home. The Vegas VR mobile app gives users 360-degree panoramic videos ranging from top culinary stops, popular nighttime activities and hotel tours. The app is compatible with Google Cardboard or tray-based headsets. The participant uses touch and gyroscope to control the videos, which can be shared through Facebook, Twitter or email.
Affiliated Agency: App Developer: Wemersive
Credits: Arnie DiGeorge – Executive Creative Director Matt Mason – SVP Brand Engagement Ronaldo Vianna – Digital Creative Director Cyler Pennington – Content Director Greg Hedon – Content Director Justin Allen – Designer Sal DeFilippo – Digital Content Developer Chad Well – Digital Strategist Jennifer Kettel – Brand Manager Emily Jones – Lead Digital Producer Katie Quinn – Digital Producer; Mia Journeys App by SapientNitro for Mia (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
To celebrate its 100th anniversary, The Minneapolis Institute of Art created an app for use in the museum that helps visitors navigate through the its massive collection in a streamlined, manageable manner. Mia Journeys App gives users creative control, allowing them to select a “journey” throughout the museum to the pieces of art of their choice. Once selected, the app guides the user to each piece and offers additional information about the work directly in front of them.
Credits: John Biondi – Creative Director Todd Zerger – Associate Creative Director Drew Lindvedt – Senior Designer Amy Martin – Senior Art Director Mark Wagner – Associate Creative Director

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