Toyota keeps young drivers ‘Safe & Sound’ with safety smartphone app

Toyota keeps young drivers ‘Safe & Sound’ with safety smartphone app

Toyota Europe and Saatchi & Saatchi London have launched the Safe & Sound smartphone app, which uses a humorous threat of embarrassment to stop kids from speeding or using their phones while driving. Designed to make driving safer and to give parents peace of mind when their children borrow their car, both parent and child […]

Vpon Releases 2017 H1 APAC Mobile Advertising Statistics and Trends Report

Vpon Releases 2017 H1 APAC Mobile Advertising Statistics and Trends Report

Vpon Big Data Group, one of Asia’s leading big data ad technology company, released 2017 H1 APAC Mobile Advertising Statistics and Trends report, revealing the mobile behaviour analysis of domestic tourists in Japan. Through these mobile data, advertisers can target potential tourists for promotion. Moreover, the report also explores the mobile behaviour of Greater China […]

Asos deploys image search functionality to fashion app

Asos deploys image search functionality to fashion app

Asos has become the latest e-commerce retailer to embrace computer vision after it introduced image search functionality to its iOS fashion app for the first time with an Android companion also waiting in the wings. The innovation will enable shoppers to simply take or copy a photograph of any clothing or accessory which they desire […]

Rocket Fuel welcomed into Snapchat partner program

Rocket Fuel welcomed into Snapchat partner program

Predictive marketing platform Rocket Fuel has been named a Snapchat Certified Partner, bringing inventory such as custom filters, long-form video, app install and web view to brands looking to advertise to Snapchat’s 143m users – as of the company’s Q2 2017 earnings report. Being a partner, Rocket Fuel can enable advertisers to measure the success of their ad units, […]

Millennials are leaving Snapchat for Instagram – Teenagers, not so much

Millennials are leaving Snapchat for Instagram – Teenagers, not so much

In the ongoing fight for millennial attention between social media apps Instagram and Snapchat, it would appear that Instagram is now slightly ahead. That’s according to a survey from online research company CivicScience among US millennials. The latest data found that 34% of millennials said they used Instagram daily, compared to just 28% on Snapchat. […]

Facebook challenges YouTube and TV with dedicated video service

Facebook challenges YouTube and TV with dedicated video service

Facebook is mounting its first direct challenge to YouTube and established TV networks with the launch of its own dedicated video channel designed to bring a degree of professionalism to a segment that has thus far been dominated by home videos, amateur content and short clips of material available elsewhere. As such the social network’s 2 billion monthly users will […]

Taboola teams with AdRoll for programmatic native

Taboola teams with AdRoll for programmatic native

Taboola, the leading global discovery platform, a strategic partnership with AdRoll, the performance marketing platform. The partnership will enable AdRoll to bid programmatically on Taboola’s native exchange. This will open access to Taboola’s premium publisher marketplace for AdRoll’s network of 35,000 customers worldwide. The collaboration will provide new opportunities for AdRoll’s brands looking to reach audiences […]

Mobile brand advertising agency Kargo expands into New Zealand

Mobile brand advertising agency Kargo expands into New Zealand

Kargo, one of the leader in mobile brand advertising, announces its expansion into New Zealand – the company’s fourth global market and second outpost in the Asia Pacific region. To best accelerate the company’s regional expansion, Kargo has appointed Tim Richards as its first New Zealand-based Sales Manager, who will be based out of the […]

Lonely Planet launches travel-focused photo-sharing app

Lonely Planet launches travel-focused photo-sharing app

Travel media brand Lonely Planet has launched a new app called Trips, which it describes as a ‘self-publishing content platform’, and which aims to compete with Instagram as a way to share images and video from holidays and other travel experiences. The app is focused on creating stories around each journey, using photos and videos […]