Skype and PayPal team up with new Send Money feature

Skype and PayPal team up with new Send Money feature

Online payment service PayPal announced it is partnering with instant messaging app Skype to allow users in 22 countries to send money within a conversation via a new feature called Send Money. According to Microsoft, as of August 2, Skype users chatting with contacts in the latest version of the Skype app can swipe right, tap Send Money […]

Vungle and Amazon Appstore to Bring Industry-Leading User Acquisition Solution to Fire Tablets

Vungle and Amazon Appstore to Bring Industry-Leading User Acquisition Solution to Fire Tablets

Vungle, the leading performance marketing platform for in-app video ads, announced the upcoming release of a software developer kit (SDK) for Amazon’s popular Fire tablets. Vungle, working together with Amazon Appstore, will bring its industry-leading user acquisition and monetization platform to Fire tablets. According to analyst firm IDC, adoption of Amazon devices increased 1,200 percent year over […]

Unity Selected as Zynga’s Exclusive Mobile Game Rewarded Advertising Partner

Unity Selected as Zynga’s Exclusive Mobile Game Rewarded Advertising Partner

Unity Technologies, the largest global development platform for creating 2D, 3D, VR and AR games, announced it will exclusively power Zynga Inc.’s mobile game rewarded advertising. The partnership gives Zynga access to Unity’s world class advertising platform, which serves more than 25 billion ad requests per month to more than 1 billion unique users around […]

Happy Finish create the world’s highest VR slide experience for The View from The Shard

Happy Finish create the world’s highest VR slide experience for The View from The Shard

Towering at 95 stories high, The Shard, the UK’s tallest building, has attracted visitors across the globe for an unparalleled view of London’s iconic skyline. For a truly remarkable visit to the British landmark, visitors travel upward in high-speed lifts to The View from The Shard, the building’s premium, open-air Skydeck. Eager to integrate Virtual Reality into the attraction, The View from The Shard turned to Happy Finish to […]

Programmatic Advertising Market Registers a Momentous Growth of USD 150 Billion By 2023 at 22% CAGR

Programmatic Advertising Market Registers a Momentous Growth of USD 150 Billion By 2023 at 22% CAGR

Market Research Future published a half-cooked research report on “Global Programmatic Advertising Market Research Report – Forecast to 2023” – Market Analysis, Scope, Stake, Progress, Trends and Forecast to 2023. Rubicon Project, Adroll, Adobe Marketing Cloud, DoubleClick, Choozle, AdReady, DataXu, Centro, PulsePoint and Outbrain are some of the prominent players profiled in MRFR Analysis and […]

China’s DiDi to back small Uber rival Taxify in Europe, Africa

China’s DiDi to back small Uber rival Taxify in Europe, Africa

Chinese ride-hailing company DiDi Chuxing is investing an undisclosed amount in Estonian online taxi firm Taxify to help it expand in Europe and Africa, where it has gained share in some cities against US player Uber. DiDi Chuxing will invest in and collaborate with Taxify to support the latter’s further expansion across its regional markets, […]

OLAmobile acquires mobile performance marketing startup IconPeak for $10M

OLAmobile acquires mobile performance marketing startup IconPeak for $10M

In what looks like a pretty decent exit for German company builder Makers, two of its incubated startups have been acquired by performance marketing platform OLAmobile. The deal, for a combined price of $10 million, sees IconPeak and its subsidiary BidderPlace join OLAmobile to help the latter increase its presence within the mobile performance marketing space. The exit represents a […]

Equimedia Reveals that 91% of Mum’s Favourite Brands Offer Poor Mobile Experience

Equimedia Reveals that 91% of Mum’s Favourite Brands Offer Poor Mobile Experience

According to research released on August 1 by digital media agency, Equimedia, 91% of the brand websites handpicked by Mums have poor mobile website speeds. The digital media specialists looked at mobile website download speeds based on Babycentre’s Welcome To Mums 2017 list of recommended baby products, and discovered that only two of the top listed […]

Omnicom Media Group Running Location-based Campaigns on Blis Self-Serve Platform

Omnicom Media Group Running Location-based Campaigns on Blis Self-Serve Platform

Leading location technology company Blis, announced that after working with Omnicom Media Group for the last year, its proprietary, location-enabled self-serve Demand Side Platform (DSP) has been released industry-wide. The platform, which was launched in 2016 with selected clients, is powered by Blis’ proprietary location technology stack: SmartPin, SmartScale and its POI Database. Clients can access […]

Top Publishers Weigh in on Mobile Monetization and User Engagement

Top Publishers Weigh in on Mobile Monetization and User Engagement

With 55% of total mobile publisher revenue generated from ads, app developers are increasingly looking to continued growth in mobile publisher revenue. The greatest contributor to this category is mobile video ad monetisation. Indeed, 31% of mobile publisher revenue comes from mobile video ads according to a recent report by AdColony. The report looked at top mobile […]