This quarter’s report marks the four year anniversary of MoPub‘s Mobile Programmatic Trends Report (find the first report here). Since that time, the landscape for in-app mobile advertising, particularly through real-time bidding exchanges like MoPub Marketplace, has changed dramatically in terms of players, technology standards, and even platforms. On MoPub Marketplace alone, monthly ad impressions […]
South Carolina’s Darlington Raceway has teamed up with Coca-Cola Bottling Co and mobile fan experience technology firm Experience to create an audience engagement app that offers NASCAR fans a chance to win VIP experiences and more. NASCAR enthusiasts can download the app ahead of this Labor Day weekend to be in with a chance of […]
Instagram has been busy updating its features of late. Following up on the debut of Instagram ‘Stories’ and its new tool that enables users to zoom in while taking a video, comes the platform’s highly requested option that allows users to zoom in on photos and videos. This ‘pinch to zoom’ feature works on posts […]
Since 2014, there have been more mobile devices in the world than desktop computers, and people spend more time browsing the internet on their smartphones than on their desktops. So companies simply cannot ignore mobile as a channel to reach their consumers. Today, marketing departments focus a meaningful part of their time and budget on […]
Esurance has launched a new campaign, “Don’t Catch and Drive,” to promote safe driving. The home and auto insurance company speaks out to remind drivers of the dangers of playing mobile games while behind the wheel. New mobile games with augmented reality have taken the world by storm. As an insurance company, Esurance frequently sees the […]
The No. 1 most visited destination in the U.S. – known for innovative vacation experiences – unveiled another “first” for visitors today with the beta launch of a destination mobile app that uses WayBlazer’s IBM Watson-enabled technology. The new app taps Watson’s artificial intelligence to understand conversational language from users and offer personalized recommendations of […]
A mobile optimised ad creative leading through to Butlin’s new mobile website Knowing that their core audience of busy mums and dads lead increasingly mobile-centric lives, Butlin’s relaunch their mobile website and promote it using a highly-targeted mobile-first search campaign. Butlin’s have been […]
If ever you’ve needed an incentive to exercise, a new app could give you a much-needed boost to get active. The British app Sweatcoin tracks your activity and pays you accordingly in its digital currency, which can be used to purchase physical trainers and exercise classes. For every 1,000 steps walked, users earn one sweatcoin (SWC). […]
Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp will begin to share data including users’ phone number with its parent company, as part of plans to allow businesses to send messages to users. It will be the first time the messaging service has connected users’ accounts to the social network to share data. Starting from today, the billion-plus users will be […]
Malibu is looking to capitalise on consumers’ “contactless payment behaviour” by turning 40,000 of its bottles into media platforms, offering consumers access to exclusive content simply by tapping their smartphone on the bottle. Malibu is using the same technology used for contactless payments to create 40,000 ‘connected’ bottles, allowing users with Android phones and the […]
