Mountain Dew boosted awareness and engagement on video streaming platform Twitch with a chatbot aimed at gamers. The PepsiCo soft drink brand unveiled its DEWbot last year as part of a “Rig Up” promotion that awarded a $50,000 gaming Super Rig supplied by Origin PC. The eight-week campaign featured gaming influencers and urged fans to […]
Mobile advertising firm InMobi has signed an exclusive monetization partnership with Airtel TV. This partnership comes nearly seven months after InMobi had announced a similar deal with Airtel’s music streaming app Wynk Music. InMobi said this partnership will enable brands to get access to premium ad inventory on the Airtel TV mobile app that offers […]
Fyber, a programmatic trading technology platform, announced that it has enriched its data-driven segmentation platform, Audience Vault, with demographic, interest and audience data from the Nielsen Marketing Cloud, location data for offline activities from PlaceIQ, and mobile app audience measurements from Mobilewalla. This information is automatically imported into Audience Vault, enabling publishers to create custom […]
Distribution network operator for electricity UK Power Networks has launched a new digital mobile responsive web application designed by Tangent. The new app is aimed at providing accurate and up-to-date information for customers, removing the need to contact a call centre if there is a power failure. The service will provide real time information for […]
Ad spend on Facebook grew by 62 per cent in the first quarter of 2018, despite the Cambridge Analytica scandal, growing week-over-week by seven per cent and 15 per cent during the weeks of March 17 and March 24 after the news emerged. Both weeks also saw nine per cent increases in Instagram spending. According […]
Are we on the verge of doing away with the fixed telephone line altogether? ReportLinker has compiled globe-spanning data to look into the matter showing the rise of chat apps, looking at a number of counties. In Australia: • The number of people who own a smartphone but no fixed telephone line has been increasing […]
LinkedIn has really been loosening up its tie thus far in 2018. First, the professional network introduced its ‘In It Together’ integrated marketing campaign during the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards in January, trying in part to shed its “white collar businesspeople” stereotype. Then, last month, LinkedIn added a touch of Snapchat and Instagram with […]
The IAB Technology Laboratory today released its Open Measurement Software Development Kit (OM SDK), a set of tools designed to seamlessly facilitate third-party viewability and verification measurement for ads served in mobile app environments—without various measurement provider SDKs and systems previously required. Market adoption of the OM SDK will support scaling in-app measurement, increase confidence […]
Parents today see picture-perfect families everywhere, especially in social media. Minute Maid’s new brand campaign is encouraging parents to embrace their perfectly imperfect family moments and show how even though it’s not always Instagram-ready, “this is GOOD.” To launch the new campaign, Minute Maid partnered with Edison Research to commission the “This is Good Parenting […]
Unilever food brand Knorr is trialling a new video ad format that lets viewers choose a charity to benefit from the revenue it derives if they view an ad for at least 15 seconds. The brand is working with video advertising platform Good-Loop to deliver video advertising in a way that also generates charitable donations […]