Esurance to Mobile Gamers: Don’t Catch and Drive

Esurance to Mobile Gamers: Don’t Catch and Drive

Esurance has launched a new campaign, “Don’t Catch and Drive,” to promote safe driving. The home and auto insurance company speaks out to remind drivers of the dangers of playing mobile games while behind the wheel. New mobile games with augmented reality have taken the world by storm. As an insurance company, Esurance frequently sees the […]

Flipboard Launches Premium Private Marketplace; Selects Rubicon Project to Automate Buying of Mobile Ad Inventory

Flipboard Launches Premium Private Marketplace; Selects Rubicon Project to Automate Buying of Mobile Ad Inventory

For the first time, Flipboard makes its ad inventory available for real-time buying through an invite-only Private Marketplace (PMP) enabled by a new strategic alliance with Rubicon Project, operator of one of the largest advertising marketplaces in the world. This partnership allows existing clients to buy Flipboard’s rich mobile ad inventory in an automated fashion, […]

Why size matters with mobile ads

Why size matters with mobile ads

Social platforms are providing longer ad units, but bigger isn’t necessarily better, writes a strategy team from Possible Earlier this year, Instagram and Twitter announced something odd: longer ad units. Twitter enabled skippable 30-second ads, while Instagram cleared the way for gargantuan 60-second Super Bowl-style ads. One can, perhaps, see an argument for this. Mobile […]

ClickBid Implements Braintree Payment’s Strongest Security to Provide PCI Compliant Mobile Bidding

ClickBid Implements Braintree Payment’s Strongest Security to Provide PCI Compliant Mobile Bidding

ClickBid, a leading provider in mobile bidding technology, has converted all of its credit card functionality to use Braintree hosted fields. Through it’s six year partnership with Braintree Payments (a PayPal company) ClickBid is able to offer end-to-end security of card data. Hosted fields provide a way to present payment forms directly from a PCI […]

Visit Orlando’s New Mobile App a First for Travelers

Visit Orlando’s New Mobile App a First for Travelers

The No. 1 most visited destination in the U.S. – known for innovative vacation experiences – unveiled another “first” for visitors today with the beta launch of a destination mobile app that uses WayBlazer’s IBM Watson-enabled technology. The new app taps Watson’s artificial intelligence to understand conversational language from users and offer personalized recommendations of […]

Mobile Advertising Market To Hit US$ 269.14 Bn by 2024 Owing To Exponential Rise In Mobile users Globally

Mobile Advertising Market To Hit US$ 269.14 Bn by 2024 Owing To Exponential Rise In Mobile users Globally

Mobile advertising is a form of advertising using mobile devices. It is a subgroup of mobile marketing. Mobile advertising provides information/content developed/designed by advertisers intended for customers/mobile device users. The different types of advertising includes display advertising, In-app, In-game, rich media, search, sms/mms/P2P messaging and others. Mobile advertising provides a solution to advertisers to reach […]

Butlin’s – Welcoming a Mobile Audience

Butlin’s – Welcoming a Mobile Audience

                         A mobile optimised ad creative leading through to Butlin’s new mobile website Knowing that their core audience of busy mums and dads lead increasingly mobile-centric lives, Butlin’s relaunch their mobile website and promote it using a highly-targeted mobile-first search campaign.  Butlin’s have been […]

Need motivation? This app will pay you to exercise

Need motivation? This app will pay you to exercise

If ever you’ve needed an incentive to exercise, a new app could give you a much-needed boost to get active. The British app Sweatcoin tracks your activity and pays you accordingly in its digital currency, which can be used to purchase physical trainers and exercise classes. For every 1,000 steps walked, users earn one sweatcoin (SWC). […]

WhatsApp to share more user data with parent company Facebook

WhatsApp to share more user data with parent company Facebook

Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp will begin to share data including users’ phone number with its parent company, as part of plans to allow businesses to send messages to users. It will be the first time the messaging service has connected users’ accounts to the social network to share data. Starting from today, the billion-plus users will be […]