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Experiential Delivery

Seeking to enhance experiences, brands integrate unexpected delivery formats

Implications - Realizing the need to elevate consumers experiences, brands are turning to unexpected delivery formats for allure. Surprise and delighting consumers with packages that are sent via drones and social platforms, brands are helping to redefine typically mundane shipping procedures into more engaging activities.
Trend Themes
1. Delivery Drones - Brands are now using delivery drones to offer customers a unique and innovative experience that traditional shipping methods can't match.
2. Digitally Connected Services - Consumers are now more tech-savvy than ever before, and brands are recognizing that they need to adapt and offer digitally-connected products and services that meet their needs.
3. Personalized Promotions - Brands are using creatively personalized promotions to engage consumers and turn their marketing into something that feels like a compelling experience.
Industry Implications
1. Food and Beverage - The food and beverage industry is finding new ways to leverage technological advancements to offer better delivery services and innovative marketing techniques to their customers.
2. Logistics - The logistics industry is seeing a lot of disruption from technological advancements as customers' expectations for speedy and personalized delivery options continue to rise.
3. Retail - Brands in the retail industry are now using drones and other innovative technologies to offer customers a more personalized and unique shopping experience both online and offline.
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Featured Examples

Food Delivery Robots
Food Delivery Robots
DoorDash is Partnering with Starship Technologies to Offer Robot Delivery
There are dozens of modes of transportation that are currently used to fulfill deliveries, but DoorDash is an on-demand restaurant delivery service that’s looking to the future by... MORE
Takeout Meal Delivery Drones
Takeout Meal Delivery Drones
Just Eat Delivered an Inaugural Takeaway Meal in Greenwich
Many brands have been in the news within the past year or so because of their use of robots to deliver takeaway meals, and now Just Eat has made headlines by unexpectedly doing as such. Just Eat... MORE
Pizza-Ordering Tattoos
Pizza-Ordering Tattoos
Pizza Hut UK is Offering Digitally Connected Delivery Tattoos
People’s tattoos are full of meaning, but that ink won’t fill them up with pizza—unless they get one of Pizza Hut UK’s pizza-ordering tattoos. The stick-on pizza-ordering... MORE
One-Cent Pizza Promotions
One-Cent Pizza Promotions
JustEat Offered Inexpensive Pizzas, but Only to Those Named Mary
81-year-old celebrity baker Mary Berry recently declared that she’s never eaten a takeaway pizza in her lifetime, and JustEat quickly responded by offering an inexpensive pizza promotion... MORE
Burrito Delivery Drones
Burrito Delivery Drones
Virginia Tech's Campus Will Have Chipotle Delivery Drones This Year
Project Wing, a delivery drone program funded by Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is bringing a wonderful service to students at Virginia Tech: Chipotle delivery drones. College students are... MORE
play_circle_filledBeer-Delivering Drones
Beer-Delivering Drones
This Marketing Scheme Used Bumblebee Drones to Deliver Honey Beer
Taiwan Beer teamed up with Wunderman Taiwan in the creation of this clever campaign to launch and promote its Honey Beer by delivering its products using bumblebee drones. The campaign combined... MORE
Frozen Yogurt Drone Deliveries
Frozen Yogurt Drone Deliveries
Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt is Testing a Drone Delivery Service
Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt has begun testing a drone delivery service to help offer those within a certain radius of its locations to receive delicious frozen treats whenever they want. The new... MORE

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