Major media and tech firms invest $1bn in mobile streaming service

Major media and tech firms invest $1bn in mobile streaming service

Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Alibaba are amongst a group of investors pumping $1bn into a mobile-focused streaming service led by former Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman and ex-Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. WndrCo, a holding company co-founded by Katzenberg, announced that it had secured the seed-funding round for what is currently being […]

Pinterest promoted video at max width is now available to all brands

Pinterest promoted video at max width is now available to all brands

Pinterest announced in May that it was testing promoted video at max width with brands including Kohl’s, American Express, Tropicana, Chevrolet, Paramount Pictures and John Lewis, and the company revealed Tuesday that the format is now available to all advertisers. Product marketing manager Nancy Jeng announced in a blog post that promoted video at max width is now available via Pinterest Ads […]

Modern English launch #DuaMoods for Warner Brothers Records

Modern English launch #DuaMoods for Warner Brothers Records

Creative technology agency Modern English have launched a ‘facial recognition playlist generator’ for music sensation, Dua Lipa. The ground-breaking new web-app uses an online social messenger premise to allow fans to interact with a Dua Lipa chat-bot and upload a selfie that is analysed to give them a personal playlist based on what mood their […]

Cossette and Le Club AccorHotels create the world’s first biometric discovery tool for destination planning

Cossette and Le Club AccorHotels create the world’s first biometric discovery tool for destination planning

 AccorHotels is passionate about luxury, which means going above and beyond to understand their guests’ desires, even before they do. Partnering with Cossette and The Mill NY/Chicago, Seeker was created with this in mind – a biometric discovery tool designed to side step rational decision making in order to understand the destination the users […]

Indian ride-hailing firm Ola to launch in the UK

Indian ride-hailing firm Ola to launch in the UK

Indian ride-hailing firm Ola announced it plans to launch services in the United Kingdom in 2018, months after it expanded its operations in Australia, in an ongoing turf war with US rival Uber Technologies. Ola, backed by Japan’s Softbank Group, has obtained licences to begin operations in South Wales in September, as well as Greater […]

Facebook launches ad products for video games

Facebook launches ad products for video games

Facebook has launched three advertising solutions to help publishers of games reach players that are likely to make in-app purchases. Facebook is offering advertising solutions for marketers in the console/PC and mobile gaming industry. Similar to AdColony, the first solution is a playable ad, which is available to advertisers and agencies that opt for the […]

Limitless launches LimitlessLiveMessenger

Limitless launches LimitlessLiveMessenger

Limitless, the UK-based inventor and provider of a SaaS platform offering crowd sourced customer service, is announcing its latest product – LimitlessLiveMessenger. LimitlessLiveMessenger is an asynchronous messaging product that can be easily deployed on any website and provides businesses with direct access to Limitless’ on-demand Crowd Service platform. The new product allows customers to route […]

Huawei eyes smartphone crown, with 200m shipments forecast

Huawei eyes smartphone crown, with 200m shipments forecast

China’s Huawei raised its forecast for full-year smartphone shipments to more than 200 million and said it could become the world’s top vendor of the devices in the final quarter of next year. Huawei, which recently displaced Apple as the No. 2 smartphone vendor in the June quarter, expects full-year shipments to beat an initial […]