Summing up the Diwali season, Adby Ventures released a report about 10,000 Active advertisers across the country advertising in the festive month ending mid-October. The report compared advertising across different platforms (desktop, mobile, videos) and mapped the increased activity of different industries in the festival season. It also released a comparison of the digital advertising […]
Television continues to be the biggest advertising platform in India, but mobile ad spend is growing rapidly and is expected to increase by 85% in 2017, according to the latest estimates from eMarketer. The New York research firm forecast that overall digital ad spend in India will rise to $1.21bn this year with further double-digit growth […]
E-Commerce giant Amazon has begun selling its Alexa-controlled Echo speakers in Asia on October 4, starting with India, with plans to expand sales to Japan in the later part of 2017. The company said it will start selling the new Echo, Echo Plus and Echo Dot by invitation only, before shipping the devices to the […]
Attempting to rectify India’s shortage of safe blood, Facebook has introduced new features which will help connect blood donors and blood receivers. According to a blog post, the features will roll out on 1 October, which coincides with National Blood Donor Day. These will appear on the News Feed and allow users to sign up to […]
Truecaller, a popular mobile app which provider caller information, has announced the launch of a new self-serving platform — Ads Manager. The platform will allow businesses to manage their ad campaigns themselves. With the launch of this new platform in India, brands or advertisers will now be able to advertise their products and services in […]
InMobi, a global mobile advertising platform, has crossed 150 million monthly active users (MAUs) in 2017, making it the largest independent mobile app network in India. Also, InMobi’s premium mobile network now reaches 162 million unique users (MAUs) through 1000 plus SDK integrated publishers in India and delivers ad formats such as video and native […]
Truecaller have announced that the company achieved a record 200 million impressions in a single day in India, thus registering a 300 percent growth in its in-app advertising platform in one year. Meanwhile, real estate on Truecaller appreciated to the extent that over 70 percent of existing advertisers decided to continue to invest in Truecaller’s mobile […]
Homegrown messaging platform Hike is intensifying its marketing strategy in India. It recently beat Whatsapp to integrating wallet payments to push Digital India initiative. It has now introduced Bae Buddy Bro, a social experience to mark the occasion of Friendship Day and Rakhsa Bandhan. If the users’ sentiments (the options are bae, buddy or bro) […]
Indian social intelligence firm, Qoruz, has launched a new offering in its influencer marketing suite. The newly launched social media tracker enables brands and their PR teams to identify and leverage social influencers during a crisis situation. In an increasingly social world where timely identification and mitigation of crisis is becoming more and more difficult for brands, Qoruz’s social […]
Qoruz, one of India’s leading influencer marketing intelligence platform, has announced the launch of its social campaign tracker. Focused on measuring user and influencer generated content and conversations during a brand campaign, this unique tracker helps brands monitor social media platforms for earned media content for specific keywords and ‘hashtags’. It also enables marketers discover […]