"The Listener" is a Powerful New Audio Walking Tour available at this summer’s Merchant City Festival 2025 in Glasgow
We are proud to announce the launch of “The Listener” at the Merchant City Festival this summer, a specially commissioned audio guide that explores Glasgow's historical ties to the transatlantic slave trade. The guide, produced by theAfrowegian, is available exclusively on the Trailify app starting Friday 18th to Sunday 20th July.
You can download the app and guide now on Trailify.
This collaboration showcases the power and flexibility of the Trailify platform, which enables event organisers and cultural institutions to deploy rich, location-aware digital experiences without the cost and complexity of building a custom application.
"The Listener" is a thought provoking walking tour that takes participants on a journey through Glasgow's merchant city centre. With audio clips across significant locations, the guide reveals the often overlooked history connecting the city’s wealth and architecture to colonial exploitation. Visitors can start the immersive experience by simply scanning a QR code, or using a single link supplied via the festival website, or social media.
How Trailify Powers "The Listener"
For an event like a city festival, Trailify provides a turnkey solution for modern visitor engagement:
- Instant Access via QR Code: Visitors scan a code, or use a single link, and are taken directly to the Trailify app download. Once opened, "The Listener" guide loads automatically, creating a frictionless user experience.
- Fast, Affordable Deployment: The guide was created and deployed on the Trailify platform in a fraction of the time and cost required for a standalone app, demonstrating a new, agile model for digital content delivery at festivals.
- A Rich, Immersive Experience: Trailify supports high-quality audio, images, and text, all linked to a user's location on an interactive map, allowing for a deeply engaging and self-guided tour.
- Offline Functionality: Once the guide is loaded, it is saved to the user's device, ensuring a seamless experience even in areas with poor network coverage.
"We are so pleased to have our app featured at such a prestigious event as the Merchant City Festival. 'The Listener' is a powerful, important piece of storytelling, and it perfectly represents our mission: to provide a platform that makes vital local histories accessible to a wider audience. We’ve removed the technical barriers so that creators like theAfrowegian and organisers like the festival can focus on what they do best: creating unforgettable cultural experiences."
The Trailify platform is now available for visitor attractions, heritage sites, active travel initiatives, and festivals looking to create their own digital guides.
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Press - The Listener, Merchant City Festival, GlasgowLife.org.uk
Website - The Afrowegian
Aerial Digital Ltd is proudly part of Surge Festival again this year which returns to the Merchant City Festival with fabulous and unique street theatre acts from around the UK and the world. It has been such interesting and engaging work being technical advisors collaborating on devising outdoor performance pieces using technology for the Festival, held in Glasgow from Fri 18th - Sun 20th July 2025.
Together with Surge’s TechBox (Cadogan Sq, Glasgow) we have supported two new shows within the programme this summer.
DeliverArt by Techbox
“Feast your eyes! A speedy delivery service for all your artistic cravings… Starved of culture? Hungry for delicious art in all its forms, music, visual art, modern dance, are now all available at your fingertips! Just scan, tap and relax - as one of our speedy artisan couriers delivers you a piping hot masterpiece in minutes. Look out for the QR Codes. Booking opens 30 minutes prior to each performance.”
A Portal by Techbox
“Leave the streets of Glasgow behind and step into imagined worlds of your own making! Using model making, simple props, green screen, live performance and real-time generative AI, we will transport you to other worlds in a fun mash-up of improvisational theatre and cutting-edge technology.”
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Press - DeliverArt, Merchant City Festival, GlasgowLife.org.uk
Press - A Portal, Merchant City Festival, GlasgowLife.org.uk
Press - Surge Festival
Website - Techbox
The Love Newmilns app, a new community heritage app in East Ayrshire, was launched to applause on Saturday 10th May at Newmilns Church Hall. In attendance were East Ayrshire Chief Executive, Eddie Fraser and local MP, Lilian Jones. The app is a unique blend of historical locations, self-guided trails, heritage stories, and family-friendly games - all centred on the town of Newmilns in East Ayrshire. Visitors can explore curated walking routes, view archive photos reimagined using AI, and enjoy features like “Then and Now” historical comparisons.
Families can also take part in a fun Eye Spy challenge or uncover secrets in the local churchyard with a graveyard treasure hunt. The app includes maps, trail guidance, local business listings, event info, and a searchable index of community groups.
Key Features
Self-guided walking trails
AI-enhanced archive images
Then and Now historical photo views
Family Eye Spy challenge
Graveyard treasure hunt
Local business and event listings
Curated content from the Newmilns Heritage Group
The Love Newmilns app is the result of 13 months’ work by the local heritage group. It was commissioned by the Newmilns Regeneration Association, developed by Aerial Digital Ltd, and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Marie Johnson of the Newmilns Regeneration Association said:
After thirteen months of hard work we have done it! Thank you to everyone for all the hard work, you have all been brilliant and it wouldn’t have been possible without everyone’s dedication.
Love Newmilns is powered by Trailify as a custom standalone app, with full admin over all content.
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Press - The Ayrshire Magazine
Download Love Newmilns on Google Play
Download Love Newmilns on Apple App Store
We have been technical advisors this year toward devising an A.I. outdoor performance piece for the Merchant City Festival, held in Glasgow from 19th July - 21st July.
Following months of preparation with Surge’s TechBox (Cadogan Sq, Glasgow) you can visit Portal on Candleriggs this weekend on Saturday and Sunday from 1pm-4pm at the Merchant City Festival!
“Leave the streets of Glasgow behind and step into imagined worlds of your own making! Using live performance and realtime generative AI, we will transport you to other worlds in a fun mash-up of improvisational theatre and cutting edge technology.”
Created by Surge’s TechBox with thanks to students from City of Glasgow College NQ Model Making for TV and HND Model Making for the Creative Industries.
Our new app Trailify AI Travel Guide is now available on the app stores.
Just search for TRAILIFY on your app store to download for free.
Trailify will create your personal travel guide for any location, with the top must-see attractions, things to do, maps and images of the town or city - all generated instantly to explore on your visit.
To read the full LinkedIn article click here:
Website Link:
For iPhone:
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/trailify-ai-world-travel-guide/id6470668114
For Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aerialdigital.trailifyai
Working with generative AI models - solutions for business, Glasgow, Scotland
Currently working on delivering an AI powered solution for business. It has been steep learning curve - not least as there are still very fluid and differing options for which AI model and engine to use. Some of the most popular generative AI models include Google Bard, Microsoft Bing and ChatGPT. The potential applications of generative AI are numerous, from enabling content producers and marketers to effortlessly create new content, to assisting scientists and researchers in generating simulations and models. Our current focus is less scientific, but does highlight the versatility of innovations that AI will surely bring, looking forward to other new challenges in this area.
Download the app to unlock the interactive experiences including Augmented Reality (AR), 360 views and mini-games!
Working with the team at Angus Council we created their first app with 80 locations to visit, across eight trails featured on this free download.
Last night's Mixed Reality Scotland (AR/VR/MR) meet up hosted by ISO in Glasgow.
Session was full!
Lively chat, 3rd session this year so far. Guest speakers from ISO and UWS.
https://www.meetup.com/mixed-reality-scotland/events/255547645/
Today sees the launch of our Augmented Reality micro-site, on an entirely new domain name at:
https://augmentedrealitydeveloper.co.uk
As we have Augmented Reality projects coming up this will provide a new home for all things AR and VR.
Nice domain name too, pretty pleased to have discovered that was available!
Woo hoo! Our app 'Feeling Good: Positive Mindset' has been approved for the beta NHS Digital library.
Through this new beta service the NHS pre-approves digital products to help you manage and improve public health.
There are currently a small selection of mobile apps approved, to make sure the tools meet the high standard of quality, safety and effectiveness you would expect from the NHS.
We were very pleased work closely with our clients in the approval process, to participate in the compliance procedure, and be accepted on to the platform.
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