Facebook selects Buzzoole for FbStart programme and Apps of the Year awards

Facebook selects Buzzoole for FbStart programme and Apps of the Year awards

Influencer marketing platform Buzzoole has received two nods from FbStart, Facebook’s global start-up programme. Along with being selected for FbStart’s Bootstrap track, a scheme for early stage start-ups that have just launched a mobile app, Buzzoole has also been nominated for FbStart’s Apps of the Year awards, designed to reward the most innovative start-ups in […]

ADYOULIKE Native Ad Platform Expands to US with Launch of First AI-Driven S2S Header Bidding Solution

ADYOULIKE Native Ad Platform Expands to US with Launch of First AI-Driven S2S Header Bidding Solution

ADYOULIKE, Europe’s largest artificial-intelligence-driven native advertising platform, marks its official US launch with the debut of a new server-to-server (S2S) header bidding solution. The first to incorporate IBM Watson artificial intelligence-powered semantic targeting, the new solution assures native ads are placed with the maximum contextual relevance available. The development of the S2S solution is a […]

Smaato Releases New Inventory Discovery Feature for Demand Partners

Smaato Releases New Inventory Discovery Feature for Demand Partners

Smaato launches the mobile advertising industry’s first Inventory Discovery feature, transforming how mobile advertisers are able to discover and target mobile advertising inventory across the Smaato exchange. What used to be a manual process is now automated, giving the global, real-time mobile monetization platform’s 450+ demand partners increased access, more control and dramatically higher inventory and […]

Amazon Launches Video Conferencing Platform Chime

Amazon Launches Video Conferencing Platform Chime

Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has introduced a call and video conferencing platform to take on the likes of Microsoft’s Skype and Cisco Spark. Amazon Chime is aimed at businesses to make ‘meetings easier and more efficient than ever before’. The platform synchronises across desktop, iOS and Android devices. It is said […]

AOL and O2’s Weve Form Strategic Alliance to Improve Mobile Insights

AOL and O2’s Weve Form Strategic Alliance to Improve Mobile Insights

AOL UK and Weve, O2’s mobile marketing and commerce services provider, have joined forces to help advertisers target and reach customers more effectively. Using mobile ad exchange Axonix’s technology, Weve Insights will be integrated into AOL’s media properties and the One by AOL programmatic platform. This will allow AOL’s, advertisers’ and Axonix’s first-party data to […]

XLMedia Buys Mobile Performing Marketing Platform ClicksMob

XLMedia Buys Mobile Performing Marketing Platform ClicksMob

Marketing services firm XLMedia PLC on February 7 said it has agreed a $5.1 million cash deal to buy mobile performance marketing platform ClicksMob Inc. ClicksMob helps brands to acquire customers for mobile applications across gaming, e-commerce, travel, entertainment and finance verticals, XLMedia said. The UK firm said the deal will increase its presence in Asia […]

adsquare’s data platform and GfK insights take mobile advertising to a new level

adsquare’s data platform and GfK insights take mobile advertising to a new level

Mobile data exchange company adsquare is making region-based consumer insights from global market research company GfK available on their platform. The combination of rich consumer insights and a real-time mobile platform takes programmatic advertising to a new level. GfK delivers vital global insights matched with local market intelligence. The GfK data that adsquare offers advertisers […]

New programmatic platform helps marketers target home-movers

New programmatic platform helps marketers target home-movers

Data marketing firm consultancy TwentyCi has launched a new programmatic platform that connects digital advertisers to the 9 million home-movers who are buying a house in the UK at any given time. Advertisers will be able to reach individuals who are known to be buying (or renting) a new house and will know at what […]

Amplero’s New Capability Lets Marketers Influence Friends of Friends

Amplero’s New Capability Lets Marketers Influence Friends of Friends

Amplero, a digital intelligence platform which leverages machine learning and continuous optimisation, has introduced a way for marketers to influence friends of friends. Influencer Optimisation, a machine learning-based capability of Amplero’s Intelligence Platform, enables marketers to pinpoint their key customer influencers. It measures each influencer network by number, strength, intensity of connections, as well as […]

Facebook Workplace launches a new platform to compete in the work-app wars

Facebook Workplace launches a new platform to compete in the work-app wars

The chat war for business customers just got hotter as Facebook announced that it has launched a platform for Facebook Workplace, a product with many of the same features as Facebook but for internal company communication. Businesses will now be able to pull into Facebook Workplace software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, customer relationship management (CRM) software, and […]