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Your Guide to Not Getting Sued by the International Olympic Committee

On August 5th, the Olympic Cauldron will be lit and, despite a lot of drama, the 2016 Summer Olympics will officially begin. For 16 days the world will watch as the best…

ISL News

iStrategyLabs Acquired by J. Walter Thompson Company, part of WPP

Some founders think that the day you sell your company is “the end”; that you’ve sold your baby. I never set out to do that — so for years I resisted all the offers that came our way, of…

Mr. Robot and The Field Trip To Mars Campaigns Take Home 20 Cannes Lions!

Two of our recent campaigns were just recognized with some serious hardware at The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, taking home a total of 6 Gold Lions, 8 Silver Lions, and 6 Bronze Lions between them (full breakdown below!). First, our Mr. Robot campaign took home a Bronze Cyber…

Meet Dorothy: Click Your Heels To Summon An Uber, Call Your Phone, Or Text Your Friends!

Have you ever been stuck in an awkward situation, praying your phone would ring so you could politely extract yourself? Of course you have.  That’s why we made Dorothy, a physical trigger that makes any dumb shoe smart. Dorothy consists of the “Ruby” (a small connected device…

Should Your Brand Be On Snapchat?

Dear Brands, Look, I get it… Snapchat is scary. It’s this kind of new, weird platform that feels like it’s constantly changing. But let’s face facts: consumers are becoming more wary of social platforms that develop public profiles complete with timelines documenting every bad decision they’ve made or regrettable relationship…

ISL News

ISL Takes Home Ad Age Small Agency of the Year Award (Again)!

After a big year filled with adventurous, groundbreaking work, we just found out we’ve been awarded Small Agency of the Year (Silver for the 76-150 size category) at the 2016 Ad Age…

Development

Three Major Reasons We Decided To Ditch AngularJS

For the past several years, ISL has been almost exclusively an AngularJS shop. Back when we made the choice to utilize AngularJS as our go-to front end framework it made sense — our clients…

Development

The Only Way to Geo-target Facebook Live Video Streams for Mr. Robot or Other TV Programs

Controlling Facebook Live streams is an illusion….by nature they are able to be…

ISL News

Mr. Robot and The Field Trip To Mars Campaigns Take Home 20 Cannes Lions!

Two of our recent campaigns were just recognized with some serious hardware at The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, taking home a total of 6 Gold Lions, 8 Silver Lions, and 6 Bronze…

ISL News

The Wrath of Con: How ContraryCon Elevates the Conversation

On Friday, June 17th ISL’s Wonderbread office will be transformed into the headquarters of ContraryCon, a one-day, two-track convention tailored specifically for the design and creative engineering communities. Now, what do ContraryCon’s…

Experiments

5 Hacks To Make Your Hack Day More Hack-tastic

As we’ve grown over the years, it’s been critical to find ways to experiment, learn, build, and grow outside of day-to-day client work. Internal hack days (usually a Friday and/or Saturday) have become part of our…

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ASME IShow 2016 — Come Be Inspired on June 16

As a company full of makers, ISL is constantly on the hunt for the “next big thing”. It’s an added bonus when the innovation has the potential to change the world; enter the annual…

Experiments

ZONE: A Video Game Controlled By Your Brain

Meditation and mindfulness — just two of the many tools we as humans use to find our truest of truths and our best selves. But why stop there? I was challenged to build something during…

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