Chinese social media network WeChat, which is used for everything from chatting with friends to booking travel and making payments, has reached a billion user accounts globally, reports the Financial Times. The sheer number of accounts demonstrates the app’s dominance, though it’s important to note that user accounts means the number of accounts, not individual […]
Train ticket retailer and travel app Trainline has teamed up Big Shaq, Michael Dapaah’s Man’s Not Hot character, to launch a digital campaign promoting Trainline’s voice app through the ‘world’s first’ voicebot rap duet. The ad features Big Shaq going back and forth with the app, which has been built for Google Assistant, in the […]
YouTube has achieved certification for brand safety by JICWEBS – the independent UK body that sets best practice and standards for trusted online ad trading. YouTube was independently verified by auditing firm BPA Worldwide as to how their processes meet JICWEBS’ guidelines to reduce the risk of ads being served against inappropriate content. These guidelines […]
Following the September 2017 launch of its new omni-channel e-commerce platform, the Maison Givenchy is delighted to offer the givenchy.com experience to fans and followers in its five main European markets: the UK, Italy, Germany, Netherland and Spain. Overseen by artistic director Clare Waight Keller and designed in collaboration with the London-based agency R/GA, the site brings […]
New Worldpay research reveals India is global capital of mobile apps Indian consumers lead the world when it comes to their affinity for apps, with 82 per cent preferring this method to mobile browsers when shopping on their smartphones. This is far ahead of the global average of 71 per cent. Consumers are also seeking […]
Online advertising, including interactive and mobile, accounted for 55% of advertising budgets in Hong Kong in 2017, according to a new survey which suggests online channels will continue to drive ad spend growth in 2018. The Advertising Spending Projections 2018 survey, conducted by research firm Nielsen on behalf of the Hong Kong Advertisers Association, also revealed that […]
Mobile telecommunications company OVO Mobile has acquired Incoming Media, a tech start-up spun out of NICTA (now Data61) for more than $13 million in order to use its technology to expand itself into an AI-driven mobile broadcasting platform. The acquisition, which has been completed in a scrip deal, will see the creation of OVOPlay as […]
Mobile app distribution and monitoring specialist appScatter Group PLC has signed its first major partnership since listing on AIM last September. App advertising network Airpush will promote appScatter’s platform to its clients in return for 10% of the revenues generated by the collaboration. Customers who sign up through Airpush also get a 20% discount for […]
Amplifi and car manufacturer Honda have signed up to a new platform from GroundTruth, which only charges advertisers for recorded visits into specified dealerships and showrooms. The campaign will be measured and verified by the UK’s leading independent location measurement company, Rippll. Honda and Dentsu Aegis owned-agency Amplifi have signed as the first Cost Per […]
Twitter is now looking into the concept of measuring conversational health to combat abuse on the platform. To achieve that, Twitter is working with a non-profit research organisation Cortico and Social Machines which identifies shared attention, shared reality, variety of opinion, and receptivity. Twitter is also putting in effort to remove the content against its […]