Google and Facebook will continue to dominate the digital advertising landscape in the UK for at least the next several years, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast of UK digital ad spending. The two tech companies combined will reap more than half (54%) of all UK digital ad revenues this year, totaling £6.30 billion ($8.50 billion). […]
Adidas has created a game exclusively for Snapchat, designed to run on the platform as an ad between Stories. The brand’s first game on the media platform will land on September 16 in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. It was designed to engage football fans with a compelling gamified ad that allows them […]
Facebook has expanded the capabilities of its ‘collection’ ad format, which enables retailers to display their products in a carousel under a video or image-based ad. Collection, which was launched back in March, has been given the addition of a new creative format called lifestyle templates. This feature enables retailers to bring digital versions of their […]
The coming years will be chilly for just about every advertising medium except for your mobile phone, according to advertising agency Zenith. While internet advertising will overtake old-school television to become the biggest global advertising medium in 2017, marketing on desktop computers is expected to decline in coming years: As more advertising shifts online, benefitting companies like […]
Native advertising company Teads has entered the display ad market, making it the ‘first viewable marketplace’ with a premium video and display ad cross-device inventory. Teads’ suite of inRead display products are placed into editorial content and are promised to be ‘viewable by design’. Products include Scroller, Canvas, Swing, Slideshow and Carousel. With the introduction of display […]
It’s no stretch to say that digital advertising can be annoying, and mobile ads even more so as they’re harder to avoid. For UK consumers, some mobile ad formats are especially irksome, according to a recent study commissioned by ad tech firm InSkin Media. Polling of UK internet users in Q1 2017 by mobile market […]
Video ad serving platform SpotX has unveiled a header bidding suite built specifically for video, featuring a server-side wrapper, empowering media companies with a range of options to maximize the number of demand sources competing for their inventory. The new offering represents an advancement of the company’s shift from tag-based integrations. SpotX said the new suite of […]
YellowHead has launched Alison, a machine learning technology that predicts how mobile advertising campaigns, known as paid user acquisition, will turn out. The Israeli startup helps mobile app and game developers get better results from ads. It specializes in paid user acquisition campaigns, app store optimization, and search engine optimization. And now it has added […]
The rapid growth of mobile and video advertising has powered Australia’s digital media spend to grow 12% to $7.6 billion in the year to 30 June 2017. According to PwC and IAB Australia, advertisers now invest about half of their advertising budgets into online media channels with search and directories continuing to take the largest share, […]
American Express knew that mobile was playing an important role in the credit card research process but initially struggled to quantify it beyond last click attribution, according to a senior executive at the company. “It was something that we needed to prove. So, we set about working out how we could do that,” said Trudie […]