Facebook has announced its entry into header bidding with a partner-first approach that will open its Audience Network to web publishers working with six major ad-tech players. The company confirmed on March 22, that header bidding will available to mobile web publishers via its partnership with six adtech companies – Amazon Publisher Services, AppNexus, Index Exchange, […]
Google has announced the upcoming rollout of a new feature to Maps that will let people share their location with friends and family – even if they don’t have the Maps app. Available on both Android and iOS, users will be able to share their location in real-time with their Google contacts or by sending […]
Young TV consumers may be watching much more streaming video, but a large majority will skip online video advertising if allowed. The latest Deloitte “Digital Democracy Survey” says 80% will skip digital TV/video commercials — and over 70% of Millennials and younger Gen Z viewers find mobile ads to be “irrelevant.” Ad-blocking software is a […]
Pottery Barn is launching an augmented reality app, called 3D Room View, that lets customers visually try out living room furniture before they buy it. The 3D Room View app works with Google’s Project Tango, a platform that uses motion tracking, area learning, and depth perception to allow mobile devices to understand their position relative […]
Offering its first estimate of the size of the native advertising market, eMarketer said spending on native digital display ads will make up more than half of all digital display ad spending in the US in 2017. The new forecast estimates that US native digital display ad spend will grow 36.2% this year to reach […]
Even though the Galaxy S8 has yet to be officially announced, Samsung has revealed that it will include a new digital assistant that will enable users to control every aspect of their device with just their voice. The new assistant, Bixby, will use a dedicated button on the new smartphone, and according to Samsung, it will enable […]
Mobile advertising company MobiVisits has unveiled an upgraded user interface (UI) for its clients, which now offers native inventory. The new MobiVisits dashboard is designed to be more user-friendly and easier to manage, with an enhanced graphical interface along with other features, including an inventory tool. Clients can now easily access the stats of daily […]
Despite fast-rising digital-marketing budgets, consumer companies continue to lag in the development of essential digital-marketing skills, particularly in high-impact channels and capabilities, such as mobile, video, and testing. In fact, they have shown no overall improvement in the last 18 months, according to a new survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which found that […]
Soon-to-be Verizon-owned Yahoo is partnering with mobile geolocation data startup Statiq, which was recently acquired by Telefonica’s Axonix programmatic trading platform. The partnership sees Yahoo ‘refine its ability to offer location-based targeted adverting for brands in the UK’. Yahoo is leveraging Statiq’s location insights to create ‘a unique, accurate and scaled view of consumer behaviour’ […]
On March 21, during the International Day of Forests, Fundación Banco de Bosques together with Wunderman Buenos Aires will be launching ECO ALARM, a free mobile app. ECO ALARM is an alarm clock with which you will be helping endangered native forest without investing a single cent, or leaving your bed. Wunderman created an album […]