Tourism New Zealand uses WeChat to drive China’s high-spending travellers to middle earth

Tourism New Zealand uses WeChat to drive China’s high-spending travellers to middle earth

For a small island nation, tucked away in the South Pacific, New Zealand has an interesting challenge: to attract tourists to its picturesque shores, but not too many. With limited space and beds, Tourism New Zealand, the country’s marketing body, must balance the country’s booming tourism industry with practical sustainability. In China, this translates to […]

Amazon is rumoured to be developing a video game streaming service

Amazon is rumoured to be developing a video game streaming service

Amazon is developing a Prime Video-like streaming service for video games via a monthly subscription, The Information reports. The company is planning on using its already established cloud computing service to enable subscribers access to unlimited AAA games on their mobile devices. Although there has been no official announcement regarding the service, sources say Amazon video […]

Google adds activity cards to users’ browsing history

Google adds activity cards to users’ browsing history

Google is making it easier for users to continue their old searches by adding activity cards. Activity cards are designed around the idea that searching — especially on mobile — is often a disjointed experience due to time constraints or other interruptions. At times, a user might leave open a browser tab in the background […]

Advertising coalition extends standards for better mobile and desktop ads globally

Advertising coalition extends standards for better mobile and desktop ads globally

The Coalition for Better Ads announced that it will expand the Better Ads Standards for desktop and mobile web to all countries and regions worldwide to improve the online ad experience for consumers. The ad experiences in the Standards are based on the Coalition’s extensive research, which has involved more than 66,000 consumers to date in countries […]

Tappx partners with Pixalate to guard against Connected TV/OTT ad fraud

Tappx partners with Pixalate to guard against Connected TV/OTT ad fraud

Tappx has partnered with Pixalate in order to offer advanced invalid traffic (“IVT”) detection technology for its over-the-top (OTT) services. The global Tappx solutions, which will be enhanced by Pixalate technology, includes ‘Ad-Replacement’ services for digital TV, ‘Dynamic Ad Insertions’ (DAI), digital TV ad time slot detection and insertion of programmatic video ads, and ‘Addressable […]

Audi turns the car into a virtual reality experience platform at CES 2019

Audi turns the car into a virtual reality experience platform at CES 2019

Audi is redefining in-car entertainment at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In the future, backseat passengers will be able to experience movies, video games, and interactive content even more realistically using virtual reality glasses. The premium brand is presenting a technology that adopts virtual content to the movements of a vehicle in […]

Square launches SDK to help mobile developers take in-app payments

Square launches SDK to help mobile developers take in-app payments

Square, the payment app founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, now enables developers and sellers to process payments with the platform in their mobile apps. The Square In-App Payments Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to begin taking payments from users with just a few lines of code. The SDK is available on iOS, Android, […]