China is, by a sizable margin, the world’s fastest growing mobile advertising market. The east Asian giant saw mobile ad spend rise 931% in Q2 2016 over 2015, according to data from mobile ad platform Smaato. This compares to an overall rise in mobile ad spending increasing 103% globally. Other notable jumps were seen in […]
Yahoo announced the availability of two new ad products for advertisers in Singapore: Yahoo Tiles, a new mobile ad format that brands can leverage to reach consumers through engaging, interactive 360 degree content and 360 creatives offering immersive ads for desktops and mobile using augmented reality and panoramic imagery. Yahoo Tiles enables brands to tell […]
Smaato just published its quarterly Global Trends in Mobile Advertising Report. The report offers key insights and trends geared toward mobile advertisers and developers, which helps them make smarter decisions when building out their monetization strategies. Smaato’s platform receives over 300 billion ad impressions each month, which are auctioned through a network of over 450 […]
HelloFresh, the global leading provider of fresh food at home, has launched a new campaign breathing fresh life into the often-underused medium of radio advertising. The World’s Fastest Recipes campaign, created by XXS Amsterdam, launched in the Netherlands on Monday October 17th. It uses smartphone technology to share recipe inspiration with a wide audience – […]
Nobody likes receiving junk texts – but what if a potential customer indicated they wanted to hear from you? That appears to be Google’s thinking behind click-to-message ads, a new AdWords feature that invites consumers to send SMS text messages to companies that provide products or services they might be interested in using. “If you’re […]
POKKT, a mobile video advertising platform in India and South East Asia, has announced the launch of a new in-app mobile retargeting product suite. POKKT adds this formidable suite to its progressive mobile ad platform, giving advertisers the ability to remarket and defined audience segments and niches efficiently. Commenting on the development, Manish Tewari, POKKT’s […]
Taptica, a global end-to-end mobile advertising platform that helps the world’s top brands reach their most valuable users with the widest range of traffic sources available, announced that Codoon, the largest sports social platform, has engaged Taptica for its Facebook social offering to drive qualified user installs in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and more […]
Go2mobi, one of the first mobile programmatic advertising platforms, announced a partnership with Neustar, a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services. The partnership brings together the latest innovations in mobile DMP and DSP technology including highly accurate and up-to-the-minute insights and audience data. The partnership gives marketers and media planners better optimization capabilities and […]
Music streaming service Spotify has begun serving vertical video ads using its new format ‘Branded Moments’, which launched in beta in October. Like a number of the service’s other ad format, Branded Moments offers users 30 minutes of commercial-free listening afterwards, but Branded Moments is the first video unit from the streaming firm to use […]
Study results from research conducted by IAB UK and PricewaterhouseCoopers has revealed interesting new trends in mobile ads. What they found is that companies are spending more to advertise on mobile screens than on desktop browsers. This represents the first time the spending balance has moved in that direction. The report data showed that companies […]