Verve expands its Premium Mobile Programmatic solution for UK and International location marketers

Verve expands its Premium Mobile Programmatic solution for UK and International location marketers

Verve, the leading location-based mobile platform, has set its sights on capturing a significant slice of the UK’s £2.6bn mobile programmatic advertising market, with the expansion of its Premium Programmatic Mobile solution through Rubicon Project’s leading Orders platform, completing its international end-to-end product suite. Verve’s programmatic solution is now available to UK and international advertisers, […]

Facebook will prioritise local stories in your News Feed

Facebook will prioritise local stories in your News Feed

You may start seeing more posts from local publishers popping up in your News Feed. Facebook has announced that it will begin prioritising local news, bumping it up higher in your feed if you follow a local publisher’s Page or if a friend shares a locally-published story. “We are prioritising local news as a part […]

Alibaba pays tribute to underdogs in major Olympics campaign

Alibaba pays tribute to underdogs in major Olympics campaign

In its first global branding campaign, Alibaba is making a big play for higher international visibility by focusing on “the greatness of small”. Launched for the upcoming PyeongChang 2018 games, the campaign features a cast of multinational athletes who have made, or may make, outsized impacts. The three-part series by BBDO China, which debuted Monday, […]

Preoday launches Hotline to integrate phone calls into digital ordering

Preoday launches Hotline to integrate phone calls into digital ordering

Preoday, the global provider of branded digital ordering services, has launched its new Hotline functionality to enhance its mobile and online ordering platform. Hotline is an additional feature of the digital ordering platform. It enables restaurants and cafes to take orders over the phone and enter them into the same system as those taken through […]

Malaysia’s capital to adopt Alibaba’s smart city solution

Malaysia’s capital to adopt Alibaba’s smart city solution

Malaysia will be the first country outside China to adopt Alibaba Cloud’s City Brain solution, according to the e-commerce giant. Alibaba Group’s cloud computing arm has teamed up with Malaysian government agencies, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), to introduce its cloud solution to improve the traffic in the country’s capital city […]

Google invests in Indonesia’s ride-hailing leader Go-Jek

Google invests in Indonesia’s ride-hailing leader Go-Jek

Google has confirmed its investment in Go-Jek, the hail-railing service that rivals Uber and Grab in Indonesia. TechCrunch reported the investment earlier this month, which was made alongside China’s Meituan-Dianping and Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek. The trio were part of a final tranche of a $1.2 billion round that Go-Jek began negotiating on last April, […]

Facebook is coming closer to humanizing its chatbots

Facebook is coming closer to humanizing its chatbots

Over the past several years, Facebook has devoted a considerable amount of its resources towards developing chatbots. It has made several advancements in this area, but is now focusing its efforts on improving conversational abilities. Despite their label, chatbots aren’t very good at making small talk. In a recent report, Facebook’s researchers pointed to several […]

Cross-industry standards bodies TAG and JICWEBS partner to clean up digital advertising

Cross-industry standards bodies TAG and JICWEBS partner to clean up digital advertising

The two leading cross-industry standards bodies in the UK and US today announced they are aligning many of their key initiatives to create a consistent approach to tackling the big issues facing digital advertising and to increase industry adoption. The Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards (JICWEBS) will continue to drive brand safety efforts in […]