Cricketer Virat Kohli partners with community interest app MrOwl

Cricketer Virat Kohli partners with community interest app MrOwl

San Francisco-based community interest app MrOwl has partnered with Indian cricketer Virat Kohli. Cricket has recently become one of the fastest growing sports in the US. As part of the deal, Virat will share exclusive personal content on the app. The partnership will see Kohli encourage fans to create content ’branches’ about their interests with […]

Roku launches its ad-supported streaming channel to all

Roku launches its ad-supported streaming channel to all

TV and movie streaming firm Roku has brought its free streaming service to the web in the US, meaning that anybody with a PC, mobile phone, or tablet can access the service. The Roku Channel was launched back in September to offer free, ad-supported movies and TV shows to Roku device owners. Now, those without […]

Cyance releases new Nexus audience module to drive digital advertising campaigns

Cyance releases new Nexus audience module to drive digital advertising campaigns

Cyance, a multi-award winning B2B customer behaviour technology company, has unveiled a major new update, Nexus Engage, to its pioneering B2B customer behaviour platform, Nexus. Nexus Engage is a powerful new ‘audience activation module’ that connects Nexus customer intent audience segments into digital advertising campaigns. This account-based advertising approach is proven to transform lead generation results. […]

Global use of #ad on Instagram grows by 44% in first half of 2018, according to Buzzoole

Global use of #ad on Instagram grows by 44%  in first half of 2018, according to Buzzoole

Influencer marketing company Buzzoole released the results of research on the use of #ad and #sponsored on Instagram in the first half of 2018. The influencer marketing brandtech company was able to measure the growth of Influencer Marketing campaigns run across social media and found that overall, Instagram posts tagged with the hashtags #ad and #sponsored […]

Major media and tech firms invest $1bn in mobile streaming service

Major media and tech firms invest $1bn in mobile streaming service

Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Alibaba are amongst a group of investors pumping $1bn into a mobile-focused streaming service led by former Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman and ex-Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. WndrCo, a holding company co-founded by Katzenberg, announced that it had secured the seed-funding round for what is currently being […]

Pinterest promoted video at max width is now available to all brands

Pinterest promoted video at max width is now available to all brands

Pinterest announced in May that it was testing promoted video at max width with brands including Kohl’s, American Express, Tropicana, Chevrolet, Paramount Pictures and John Lewis, and the company revealed Tuesday that the format is now available to all advertisers. Product marketing manager Nancy Jeng announced in a blog post that promoted video at max width is now available via Pinterest Ads […]

Modern English launch #DuaMoods for Warner Brothers Records

Modern English launch #DuaMoods for Warner Brothers Records

Creative technology agency Modern English have launched a ‘facial recognition playlist generator’ for music sensation, Dua Lipa. The ground-breaking new web-app uses an online social messenger premise to allow fans to interact with a Dua Lipa chat-bot and upload a selfie that is analysed to give them a personal playlist based on what mood their […]

Cossette and Le Club AccorHotels create the world’s first biometric discovery tool for destination planning

Cossette and Le Club AccorHotels create the world’s first biometric discovery tool for destination planning

 AccorHotels is passionate about luxury, which means going above and beyond to understand their guests’ desires, even before they do. Partnering with Cossette and The Mill NY/Chicago, Seeker was created with this in mind – a biometric discovery tool designed to side step rational decision making in order to understand the destination the users […]