Sky Sports has teamed up with GameOn, a mobile engagement platform for sports fans, to create a chatbot to accompany its popular Soccer Saturday broadcast. The ‘Jeff Bot’, named after the legendary long time host of the Sky’s Gillette Soccer Saturday show Jeff Stelling, is available through Messenger, Slack, Skype and Telegram. It features real-time […]
Haptik – India’s leading personal assistant app and first conversational commerce platform launched version 5.0 of the app and chose to do so with a brand new 360 campaign with print, outdoor, digital and TVC ads. Conceptualized by The Glitch, the ad highlights a day in the life of a Haptik user. An assembly line […]
Liquor retailer, BWS, has joined forces with mobile marketing company, Shopitize, to launch a new beer campaign rewarding customers in real time for their purchases. The Beer Bank promotion sees consumers receive a $5 digital voucher on their smartphone and in real time every time they purchase a carton of beer. The campaign uses Shopitize’s […]
In the run-up to Christmas 2016, average mobile traffic has seen an increase of 26 per cent compared to 2015 year-on-year. Since Black Friday, 68 per cent of all online retail traffic has come through mobile and tablets. According to research from Salmon, this mirrors Black Friday – where for the first time mobile overtook […]
Research from the IAB into the Internet of Things (IoT) claims that 65% of owners of such devices are open to receiving ads on these screens – a statistic that is likely to prove interesting to marketers in the run-up to next month’s Consumer Electronics Show where connected devices are likely to take center stage. […]
Skyhook, one of the world’s leading independent location platform, announced that it has joined the AppNexus marketplace as its first mobile location insights data provider. The integration of Skyhook’s Personas will help to increase the value of publishers’ advertising inventory by ensuring highly accurate location-based behavioral targeting, insights and attribution. Personalization is key to the […]
Instagram has reached 600 million monthly active users, adding its latest 100 million users faster than it ever has before, the company said on December 15. Instagram’s user base has doubled in size from 300 million monthly users to 600 million monthly users in two years. Instagram reached 500 million users in June, adding its […]
Nescafé China, the world’s leading coffee brand, demonstrated its leadership in innovation with the beta launch of Moodlock, a phone case that, when activated by an app on another person’s smart watch, locks the screen. The brand hopes that this playful, social-by-design innovation, the centrepiece of a wider digital campaign highlighting the brand’s role in […]
Sharethrough, the industry’s leading native supply side platform, announced a partnership with Kantar Millward Brown, the world’s leading expert in helping clients grow great brands, to create updated research tools allowing brands to better analyze the impact of their native ad campaigns, especially on mobile. Following successful beta tests with several major technology brands, Ford […]
Yieldmo, the leading design-driven premium mobile advertising provider, announced the results of an in-depth research study—entitled Answering the Call for Better Mobile Advertising Experiences—aimed at understanding how better-designed mobile ad formats impact consumers, brand advertisers and publishers. The study, which was executed by independent usability research firm Applause, surveyed nearly 400 U.S. consumers on their […]