YouTube’s UK viewership stagnates as platform nears saturation point, according to eMarketer

YouTube’s UK viewership stagnates as platform nears saturation point, according to eMarketer

More than 90% of digital video viewers in the UK regularly visit YouTube and its viewership is nearing saturation point, according to a report from eMarketer. YouTube’s prevalence across the Google platform and its easy integration across other content platforms has helped contribute to its rise. This year, 40.4 million people, or six out of […]

Apple Music set to overtake Spotify in US subscribers, according to The Wall Street Journal

Apple Music set to overtake Spotify in US subscribers, according to The Wall Street Journal

More and more people are rocking out to Apple Music instead of Spotify. And as a new report from The Wall Street Journal indicates, if Apple Music continues to grow at its current rate, it will officially overtake Spotify this summer as the streaming world’s number one service. The news likely doesn’t thrill Spotify, which […]

eBay drops PayPal as its primary payment processor

eBay drops PayPal as its primary payment processor

In a surprise announcement, eBay has revealed that it will be ditching PayPal as its primary payment processor. The company says it will be intermediating payments on the Marketplace platform, a move that will improve the experience for both sellers and buyers. As part of this, eBay has partnered with payment processor Adyen, though the […]

Deezer launches first ever AR ‘boombox’ advert to engage millennial music audience

Deezer launches first ever AR ‘boombox’ advert to engage millennial music audience

 Deezer, the world’s most diverse, dynamic and personalised music streaming service, has launched its first ever fully immersive augmented reality (AR) music experience, leveraging a new and specially created Snapchat lens. With AR usage expected to increase to 200 million this year, Snapchat influencer platform, Fanbytes, created a bespoke piece of content based on […]

UNICEF and BETC launch an unprecedented fundraising tool using blockchain technology

UNICEF and BETC launch an unprecedented fundraising tool using blockchain technology

 Between the 2nd of February and the 31st of March 2018, UNICEF and advertising agency BETC are reinventing charitable donations with the ‘Game Changers‘ initiative, the first humanitarian fundraising effort using the cryptocurrency Ethereum. UNICEF’s work for children depends on donations and they asked for help to attract a younger generation of donors since […]

Snapchat is now selling merchandise in its app

Snapchat is now selling merchandise in its app

Snapchat is selling merch inside a digital store in its app, a new e-commerce play that could hint at more stores to come. The store appeared in the media section of Snapchat known as Discover, and it offers Snapchat-branded merchandise for purchase through the app. The Discover section had been reserved for media companies like […]

Maxis and Ensemble Worldwide Malaysia create an interactive AR lion dance app for Chinese New Year

Maxis and Ensemble Worldwide Malaysia create an interactive AR lion dance app for Chinese New Year

Ensemble Worldwide Malaysia and Maxis have teamed up on yet another ground-breaking campaign, this time, for the Chinese New Year festive season. The ‘HuatAR‘ campaign is a world’s first, devised by the team to bring blessings (‘Huat’ in Hokkien) and make the culturally significant lion dance more accessible to masses through the use of augmented […]

Uber partners with Canon for new campaign in Southeast Asia

Uber partners with Canon for new campaign in Southeast Asia

Uber and Canon have teamed up to launch a new campaign celebrating the hidden gems of some of Southeast Asia’s most populous cities. The #HiddenCities campaign documents the most off-the-grid places in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City. The locations were found from analysing Uber drop-off points in each city and […]

Instagram launches Carousel Ads in Stories

Instagram launches Carousel Ads in Stories

If you don’t like seeing ads in Instagram Stories, you’re not going to like the announcement the Facebook-owned company has made. Instagram has introduced an update to Stories ads which will enable publishers to utilize the Carousel ad format to publish up to three pieces of content in a Stories ad. Instagram previously allowed them […]