Verve, the leading location-based mobile platform, has set its sights on capturing a significant slice of the UK’s £2.6bn mobile programmatic advertising market, with the expansion of its Premium Programmatic Mobile solution through Rubicon Project’s leading Orders platform, completing its international end-to-end product suite. Verve’s programmatic solution is now available to UK and international advertisers, […]
You may start seeing more posts from local publishers popping up in your News Feed. Facebook has announced that it will begin prioritising local news, bumping it up higher in your feed if you follow a local publisher’s Page or if a friend shares a locally-published story. “We are prioritising local news as a part […]
Tecno Mobile India has launched a new campaign for the Camon i. The launch of the TVC comes right after the unveiling of Tecno’s Camon i, its first smartphone under the global flagship Camon series, in India. The campaign was created in association with Creativeland Asia. It is directed by Kartik Ramnathkar and produced by […]
In its first global branding campaign, Alibaba is making a big play for higher international visibility by focusing on “the greatness of small”. Launched for the upcoming PyeongChang 2018 games, the campaign features a cast of multinational athletes who have made, or may make, outsized impacts. The three-part series by BBDO China, which debuted Monday, […]
After tussling with Uber in its home market of India, Ola is ready to go up against the ride-hailing giant in new territory as it expands beyond the country’s borders for the first time: the company has announced it’s launching operations in Australia this year. Ola claims to have garnered 125 million passengers on its […]
Preoday, the global provider of branded digital ordering services, has launched its new Hotline functionality to enhance its mobile and online ordering platform. Hotline is an additional feature of the digital ordering platform. It enables restaurants and cafes to take orders over the phone and enter them into the same system as those taken through […]
Google has confirmed its investment in Go-Jek, the hail-railing service that rivals Uber and Grab in Indonesia. TechCrunch reported the investment earlier this month, which was made alongside China’s Meituan-Dianping and Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek. The trio were part of a final tranche of a $1.2 billion round that Go-Jek began negotiating on last April, […]
Consumers could be using up to 100GB of data on their phones every month by 2025, according to mobile network provider GiffGaff. The company said the introduction of 5G will lead to an “explosive” growth in data consumption. It tipped video streaming to be see the largest growth. In 2017, users consumed just 0.83GB worth […]
Over the past several years, Facebook has devoted a considerable amount of its resources towards developing chatbots. It has made several advancements in this area, but is now focusing its efforts on improving conversational abilities. Despite their label, chatbots aren’t very good at making small talk. In a recent report, Facebook’s researchers pointed to several […]
UK ad viewability levels reached 56 per cent in the final quarter of 2017, the highest level since the second quarter of 2014. According to ad verification company Meetrics, the proportion of banner ads that met minimum viewability guidelines rose from 52 per cent to the 56 per cent achieved in Q4 2017, meaning levels […]
