Researchers at Google’s experimental unit, Area 120, say they’ve built their first version of a digital advertising format designed specifically for mobile, virtual-reality applications. The unit showed a prototype of the still-nameless product in a blog post co-authored by Google product manager Aayush Upadhyay and associate project manager Neel Rao. The demonstration video showed a cube floating […]
For the first time, over-the-air broadcast radio has the ability to accompany an advertising or marketing message with search-like functions to serve up additional information or coupons and discounts on mobile phones. The Westwood One app, NextRadio, is free to consumers on the Android platform and in often comes native on phones. The advertising platform […]
Tyre manufacturer Apollo Tyres has released an AR app to celebrate its partnership with Premier League football club Manchester United and their #EarnTheJersey digital campaign. The Earn The Jersey app enables users to scan an Apollo Tyres logo to enter an interactive, where players swipe a ball toward the jersey of a member of the […]
MAGNA, the intelligence, investment and innovation unit within IPG Mediabrands, and IPG Media Lab, their creative technology arm, in partnership with Twitter announced the results of a scientific media trial examining the location of video ads within a social environment. The resulting report, The Art of the Takeover: Optimizing What Consumers See First, reveals best practices for in-feed advertising as […]
Google has introduced a loyalty API that enables merchants that accept Android Pay to provide customers with offers, rewards, and information about new items. The Card Linked Offers API provides a new channel for businesses to deliver targeted offers, once a person has added their loyalty card to Android Pay. US bakery company Panera Bread […]
A new martech start-up, Printt, has developed an app and a printer system that provides free printing services for university students in exchange for watching ads. Students can either watch an in-app video ad while they’re waiting for their job to print, or have small banner ads printed on the bottom of every page. The […]
Apple is pursuing a topic close to its heart for its first ever TV series by inviting viewers to see what it takes to build an app from the comfort of their own sofa by following a clutch of wannabe developers over the course of 10 episodes. The curtain will rise on the first of these later today […]
Microsoft has launched a revamped version of Skype, taking inspiration from Snapchat because that’s the cool thing to do now. One of the new features is called ‘Highlights’, which is yet another Stories-like feature introduced by a company. Highlights enables users to create a highlight reel of their day with photos and videos. Users can […]
Snapchat’s Spectacles have arrived in Europe for the first time with Snapbots, vending machines which contain the glasses, landing in five major European locations. The vending machines have popped up under the London Eye, on a boat in front of the Eiffel Tower, by the canals in Venice, on the beach in Barcelona, and on […]
Lucozade Sport has launched a new health app for its Made to Move campaign, helping increase engagement with consumers and yeilding a potentially valuable stream of data on them. The new app will offer hundreds of daily and weekly prizes as part of the Made to Move campaign’s attempts to encourage one million people in […]