Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd announced it would buy the remaining shares of Ele.me, a major platform in China’s food delivery market, as it competes with Tencent Holdings Ltd services for offline consumers. Alibaba and affiliate Ant Small & Micro Financial Services Group Co Ltd currently own approximately 43 percent of Ele.me, and the […]
Windermere Real Estate, the largest regional real estate company in the Western U.S. announced that it has launched a new automated advertising service for high-end listings in the company’s Premier Properties program in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The program will serve the nearly 1,200 agents from more than 60 of the company’s offices in this region. “This partnership […]
Google agreed to buy Tenor, a four-year old startup that helps advertisers run mobile ad campaigns that feature GIFs, or short video clips that run on a loop, per a blog post. About 300 million people a month use Tenor’s platform for Android, iOS and desktop to find GIFs to copy into messages or to […]
Almost half the world’s online population plans to tune into the Fifa World Cup in Russia according to research from GlobalWebIndex. The company surveyed 80,267 people from more than 40 leading markets, finding numerous insights for marketers to capitalise on. Notably, 47% of the online population plans to watch the Fifa World Cup this summer. […]
In a surprise change, Facebook will give up one major data source that the company uses to help advertisers target relevant users on the platform. The company just announced that it will end a feature called Partner Categories, launched back in 2013 out of a partnership between Facebook and major data brokers. Third party data […]
Snapchat is reportedly working on a new feature that will let users control which third-party apps will have access to their accounts, the media reported. The latest beta version of Snapchat has a new feature category called “Connected Apps” whose description reads: “These apps are connected to your Snapchat account. Choose an app to control […]
Cadbury, in partnership with creative agency Ogilvy Melbourne, has launched a first of its kind social experience for Facebook Live, bringing the joy of a Cadbury Easter to all Australians. ‘The Cadbury Live Egg Hunt’, a live 360 Facebook video, was created with Alt.vfx, Sydney. Designed to let anyone experience the excitement of a […]
After 200 million downloads (and counting), mobile games publisher Deemedya had a problem; existing platforms that promised to increase app monetization simply weren’t delivering. So the team decided to go away and build their perfect platform. After 18 months in stealth mode, Game of Whales is the result. Game of Whales is a new kind […]
WARC, the international authority on advertising and media effectiveness, has released its latest monthly Global Ad Trends report, digesting up-to-date insights and evidenced thinking from the worldwide advertising industry. Threats to the digital advertising ecosystem is the focus of the latest report. WARC estimates that $63.4bn was spent on programmatic advertising worldwide last year, but […]
Turner‘s long-in-the-making live sports service is almost here. The broadcaster has announced that its Bleacher Report Live service will debut April 7th in a free preview mode, with “flexible” pricing when you have to start paying in the summer. It’ll present live sports in a Facebook-style home feed, with personalization that aggregates content based on […]