Back in early 2020, TrendWatching launched ‘Covid Innovations’ to inspire entrepreneurs and marketers to serve their customers better in dire covid times.
With Covid thankfully no longer impacting daily life, we’re fully focused again on all innovations that make the world a little bit better - check out Daily, our free publication to stay on top of the latest trends, insights and innovations.
AKQA studio is streaming 24 hours a day with talk back segments, interviews, special guests, and DJs from Melbourne, Sydney, London, Berlin and San Francisco. Nearly 300 team members throughout the world tune in each day on the web or via mobile browsers.
Read MoreGratitunes provides an easy way for people to encourage and uplift healthcare workers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) during 30 days through online musical performances, song dedications, messages of support, and monetary donations.
Read MoreThe website enables people to throw different forms of online parties depending on their budget and preferred theme. Festinha then helps invite all guests and acts as MC.
Read MoreThis new platform enables Singaporeans to share their thoughts and tips on how they are feeling, where to buy groceries or to get a mask, or some good activities to do at home, for example.
Read MoreAs opposed to only highlighting healthcare professionals, the Elle campaign highlights women that are also on the “other" frontline of COVID as they are working at supermarkets, delivery services, and in public transportation, among others. Their portraits and stories are meant to remind us all of the heroes we encounter every day.
Read MoreAnalysis Mode developed a game that empowers people to find patterns and configurations that later will be used to teach an artificial intelligence to predict vaccine formulas for COVID-19.
Read MoreQuarantine Stories, by Dutch company RNDR, gathers personal stories of those in isolation. Users can take a picture from the view through their window, upload it and write their personal story behind it. So far, hundreds of people from around the world contributed
Read MoreThe platform gives general information about COVID, real-time figures both Brasil-focused and worldwide, but also important telephone numbers to contact in case of emergency. A good news section also highlights more optimistic stories.
Read MoreWith the world’s summer sporting events postponed or cancelled, top British Olympic athletes, including hockey player Sam Ward will creatively recreate the sporting events in their own homes, with the public watching and able to donate to the Red Cross.
Read MoreUsers that subscribe to this service are sent a link every day for a zoom date with 2 others. The service was set up by Stanford students and has since become also popular at other US universities.
Read MoreThe "Secret Sofa" screenings, will be preceded by newsletters revealing the film of the week and how to access it. Users will also receive a special weekly code that allows them to order Häagen-Dazs' flavour of the week via a collaboration with Amazon Prime Now.
Read MoreThe app replicates a similar setting to the popular show Love is Blind where users go on ‘blind dates’ and speak to each other without showing their physical appearance.
Read MoreThe website shows a collection of 'bright spots', i.e. pockets of positivity, new projects, community initiatives, or technologies that have emerged from this crisis, and enables anyone to submit and share new Bright Spots thanks to a list of curated websites.
Read MoreMonadd helps UK residents financially affected by COVID receive payment reliefs by helping them conveniently begin conversations for payment reliefs with their service providers, for free.
Read MoreThe free Google Chrome extension Vemos enables you to watch movies with friends remotely, on the most popular streaming services (Netflix, Disney +, Prime video, Youtube), with a full video chat built-in.
Read MoreTo celebrate Easter, the Düsseldorf drive-in cinema together with the local catholic church organised a drive-in Easter service with space for 500 cars.
Read MoreWith clubs and bars closed due to COVID, the Portland strip club started offering a new service to keep its employees working: Boober Eats. For a $30 delivery fee, customers can order a burger and fries to their homes, where two dancers will show up with a driver/security guard. Equipped with masks, gloves, and hand sanitizers, but topless, the dancers deliver food to the customer’s doorstep.
Read MoreThis new festival took place online between the 10th and 14th April. Participants needed to send a 3 to 5 minutes short film, containing a lemon. The judging pannel chose a winner who will receive $300 AUS and a bag of lemons.
Read MoreStageKings now offers isolation desks, so-called IsoKing desks, to try to stay afloat during the crisis, and will be donating $10 from every sale to ‘Support Act’ which are supporting music workers impacted by COVID.
Read MoreDuring each course, students will be able to hear directly from curators, artists and designers, and take a closer look at the works featured in MoMA’s collection and exhibitions .
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