Bloomsbury Publishing has signed an innovative content partnership to bring its 33 1/3 series of short books about popular music onto Spotify’s streaming service. Each book in the dedicated series, now 130 titles strong, revolves around a single album and has grown to command a cult following amongst musicians and fans alike through coverage of […]
Smaato, an advertising platform for mobile publishers and app developers, announced it has integrated with Amazon Publisher Services (APS) to provide Smaato’s in-app demand partners with access to Amazon’s Transparent Ad Marketplace inventory. In response to publisher requests, Smaato is one of the first mobile ad exchanges to participate. Through a server-to-server integration, publishers using […]
Manchester United‘s official ride partner Uber organised a 360 Old Trafford Destination United experience in India as part of their sponsorship activation. Uber created an immersive 360 experience pod with the aim to give the fans an essence of the Theatre of Dreams. Other Old Trafford experiences like a dedicated fan area with players’ tunnel, […]
Tuborg has created a Chatbot that invites users into the lives of celebrities and influencers as part of a new global campaign. The Open Lives ChatBot helps people explore their own city through the eyes of another person, taking them to bars, gigs and hidden locations they might never have experienced. All powered by local […]
Amazon has launched the ‘International Shopping’ experience within the Amazon Shopping App, making it possible for international customers to browse and shop over 45 million eligible items that can be shipped to their country from the United States. This experience is available on mobile browser and mobile app within the Amazon Shopping App for both iOS […]
Youth football brand Copa90 is set to work with Snapchat to deliver exclusive World Cup 2018 content in Russia this summer. From the 2 June, Copa90 will deliver 45 daily editions in English, French, Arabic, German and Spanish. The on-the-ground content will be delivered globally, except for the United States. Copa90 will make best use […]
Are we on the verge of doing away with the fixed telephone line altogether? ReportLinker has compiled globe-spanning data to look into the matter showing the rise of chat apps, looking at a number of counties. In Australia: • The number of people who own a smartphone but no fixed telephone line has been increasing […]
Consumer spending on apps jumped 22% to $18.4 billion worldwide in Q1 2018 from a year earlier, driven by growth in music and audio, health and fitness and game categories, researcher App Annie said in a quarterly report. Downloads from Apple’s App Store and Google Play grew 10% to a record 27.5 billion during the […]
Manchester City have agreed a new multi-year partnership with Tinder, the world’s most popular app for meeting new people. A giant City-branded blimp soared over Manchester to mark the beginning of the relationship, whilst Tinder will also switch its colours across its social platforms to sky blue as they show their support for Pep Guardiola’s […]
Pixalate released its annual Global Seller Trust Index for 2017 to determine the industry’s top trusted programmatic sellers. RhythmOne ranked first in the Global Seller Trust Index (GSTI) for both the US and International markets. In the US, RhythmOne received the top ranking for a record seven consecutive months (April – October), and internationally ranked […]