Vpon Big Data Group, Asia’s leading big data ad tech company, releases the latest Hong Kong mobile advertising data report shedding light on the mobile behaviour of Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese tourists when traveling in Hong Kong. The HongKongers’ mobile user behaviour pattern and mobile market in Hong Kong are also covered. The report reveals […]
Kodak has joined forces with Imperial Leisure to take to the streets of London with a custom charger as part of a stunt ‘wiping’ people’s mobile phones. The experiment, a collaboration between the creative agency and the Kodak Moments app, revealed how people react when their phones are wiped by mistake. Promoting the fact that […]
Vibrant Media has launched a new augmented reality (AR) content format and distribution service for Android phones that opens up a new channel for brands. Vibrant AR uses just the Chrome mobile browser and no other app, up to 390 million unique users per month will now be able to augment their view of themselves […]
US doughnut company Dunkin’ Donuts has become the first brand to partner with Waze, a Google-owned traffic and navigation app, for its ‘Order Ahead’ feature. Through the partnership, members of Dunkin’ Donuts DD Perks rewards program will be able to order their favourite Dunkin’ Donuts products by connecting to its mobile ordering feature through the […]
Legoland has launched what it calls a location-based GPS adventure for kids in order to keep the whole car happy on road trips to Legoland in Winter Haven, Florida this spring and summer – and beyond. The interactive theme park for kids developed the experience, Quest to Legoland, in conjunction with Google and marketing and […]
Stella Artois is the first brand to sign up to a new AI-powered mobile ad solution called “Blis Futures”. Blis claims the new tool can predict where consumers will go and guarantees new customers in pubs for Stella Artois. Blis Futures will group like data sets and identify patterns, such as time, in order to predict […]
Programmatic mobile video advertising company TabMo has recruited Dan Read for the newly-created role of head of trading and platform sales. Read, who was previously head of trading at Mobsta, will oversee TabMo’s commercial strategy as the company continues to grow its UK customer base. Prior to joining Mobsta, which specialises in location targeting and […]
Facebook Messenger has incorporated real-time location sharing within the communication tool for the first time, enabling users to broadcast their whereabouts to a friend in one hour intervals. The added functionality brings Facebook into contention with similar tools offered by Apple’s own iPhone messages app and Google Maps. The functionality was prompted by an observation […]
Music streaming service Spotify has acquired content recommendation startup MightyTV, a service that uses Tinder-style swiping to help guide users toward TV and film choices. The terms of the deal are undisclosed but MightyTV has been shut down, as a result of the acquisition, and its team will join up with Spotify’s in New York […]
Unilever plans to shift more of its marketing budget to digital display advertising after a successful trial involving five of its brands delivered an average ROI of £1.47 for every £1 spent. The data was calculated by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), which was one of the partner organisations that took part in Unilever’s ongoing […]