Spend on digital out of home advertising (DOOH) — i.e. video content and/or digital signs located in high traffic public locations such as high streets, airports, bus shelters, subways and malls — is expected to grow 10.1% each year between 2018 and 2021, accounting for the entirety of growth in the out of home (OOH) […]
Global travel management company Carlson Wagonlit Travel has expanded its mobile air booking offering in 20 key markets around the world, giving travellers the option of booking their flights directly on the myCWT app. The service was originally piloted in early 2017 and launched commercially in Q2 2018. Mobile air booking is now being rolled out to […]
YouTube has struck a partnership with custom merchandise company Teespring that lets creators directly sell merchandise through their channels, without viewers ever leaving the page. Teespring and YouTube, will expand the ability for eligible creators in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom to sell merchandise on their channels. This follows […]
Chip, the savings app, has successfully completed its Series A funding round on Crowdcube, raising more than £4m and attracting a record-breaking 7,036 investors on the equity crowdfunding site. Chip is on a mission to build the best savings account in the world. It has already grown to 75,000 accounts, processed £58m of savings and […]
Google has expanded the number of users that have access to its much-hyped, and criticised, AI that can place reservations for people. A spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that Duplex — Google’s artificially intelligent chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone — has expanded from a “set of trusted tester users” earlier this year […]
YouTube has started showing two pre-roll video ads instead of just one, as the site prepares to rival TV on demand services and cater to a growing audience of viewers watching YouTube on their TV screens. The Google-owned streaming site calls them “ad pods”, which are essentially two separate video ads much like a TV […]
Mobile advertising platform Tapjoy has added dozens of big name apps to its network including Voodoo’s Helix Jump, PerBlue Entertainment’s Disney Heroes: Battle Mode and Ludia’s Jurassic World Alive, for which it has been named exclusive advertising provider. The new additions enable Tapjoy’s ad platform to reach around 780m mobile consumers a month, generating an average of more than 40m completed […]
betconnect, the world’s first social betting platform, announced it has built a game-changing new platform which aims to level the gambling playing field for millions of punters. Due to launch in early 2019, betconnect is the first notable application of disruptive technology in the gambling sector since Betfair in 2000. For many years, professional […]
Brand owners must act quickly and decisively to deal with the fall-out from a tumultuous year in social media, according to global socially-led creative agency, We Are Social. The agency has now launched its annual ‘not just another trends’ report, Think Forward, which also sheds light on how brands can best navigate this harsh new […]
ADYOULIKE, a leading native advertising technology, reports a surge in the number of online retailers turning to mobile advertising in the run up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Analysis of advertisers accessing ADYOULIKE supply revealed a 300% increase in the number of retail brands accessing their premium infeed native advertising supply in the last […]