Buzzvil Charts Rising Interest in Mobile Lockscreen Advertising

Buzzvil Charts Rising Interest in Mobile Lockscreen Advertising

Mobile lockscreen advertising is emerging as a successful element of US marketing campaigns as once-skeptical businesses reap impactful consumer engagement, according to a new white paper by Buzzvil, a lockscreen advertising platform. The report, ‘The State of Lockscreen Advertising: Engagement, Revenue and Apprehension in a New Era of Mobile Advertising,’ documents a growth spurt in the […]

Blockchain platform JET8 is turning everyday social media users into paid micro-influencers

Blockchain platform JET8 is turning everyday social media users into paid micro-influencers

JET8 is a Singapore-based, global social media platform with technology that allows brands, agencies and influencers to engage and sell to social communities through user-generated mobile content. Using JET8’s social currency, JETS, users of JET8 apps are rewarded for their influence as they engage with the brands and communities they love. For every in-app like, […]

Vertical video ads are coming to YouTube

Vertical video ads are coming to YouTube

YouTube is embracing vertical video ads to let brands “provide a more seamless mobile experience” for viewers, it revealed at DMEXCO on September 12 where it also revealed plans to sell advertisers video ads based on users’ personalised home feeds. Advertisers can now snap up slots that fill up a users’ screen when they’re viewing […]

BBC News to launch weekly show on Facebook Watch

BBC News to launch weekly show on Facebook Watch

BBC News is launching a weekly news programme on Facebook Watch. Set to launch later in 2018, Cut Through The Noise will be the social media platform’s first funded non-US news programme. It is to focus on a different issue each week and will be set in BBC News’ Washington bureau or elsewhere in the […]

YOC launches Sticky Scroller, scrolling mobile ads for a greater experience

YOC launches Sticky Scroller, scrolling mobile ads for a greater experience

Berlin-based mobile-first ad technology company YOC is expanding its product portfolio to include the YOC Sticky Scroller. The high-quality advertising format has a reactive scrolling function and gives the user the possibility to control the advertising content through scroll activities. Advertisers can purchase the ad format directly via the proprietary VIS.X programmatic platform. With the […]

Sigma appointed to build mobile app for world renowned horse breeder

Sigma appointed to build mobile app for world renowned horse breeder

User experience (UX) agency, Sigma, has been appointed by Juddmonte Farms – one of the world’s leading breeders of elite racehorses – to build a user-friendly mobile application that will make it easier for staff across the company’s estate to manage the movement of horses from one location to another. Not only is livestock tracking a legal […]

New survey by Prezi finds attention spans aren’t shrinking — they’re evolving

New survey by Prezi finds attention spans aren’t shrinking — they’re evolving

Attention spans are not shrinking, rather they are evolving to be more selective, according to a new research study from Prezi, the presentation platform that helps people connect more powerfully with their audiences and customers. The 2018 State of Attention Report, which measured the effectiveness of content and presentations and how they resonate with business […]

mCanvas launches India’s first programmatic high impact advertising for mobile

mCanvas launches India’s first programmatic high impact advertising for mobile

 mCanvas, the experiential storytelling ad platform for small screens, announced that it will start selling its proprietary high impact ad formats – Scroller, Sticker, Spotlight, Streambox – programmatically. The programmatic ecosystem in India has been growing rapidly but with a primary focus on standard banner ads. With the launch, mCanvas is bringing its engaging […]

Spotify deepens relationship with Nielsen to offer better measurement for brands

Spotify deepens relationship with Nielsen to offer better measurement for brands

Spotify has expanded its relationship with data and measurement firm Nielsen to help brands gain a better understanding of how their ads are performing on the music streaming platform. The extended collaboration will see Nielsen Brand Effect adopted across Spotify in the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Spain, France, Netherlands, Japan, and Australia. This will […]