Founded in 2015 by Nexd, AdCanvas is a mobile advertising platform that enables media agencies to quickly create high quality, lightweight, interactive advertisements that incite higher click through and engagement rates. The need for efficient and engaging mobile advertising platforms is increasing as the trend towards consuming content on mobile devises develops. Previously, HTML5 was […]
Hashtags for Life, a social media campaign to help expand the Red Cross‘ donor database in Peru, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. With a population of over 30 million people, and yet only 1250 registered blood donors, Peru faced a potential catastrophe incase of emergency. […]
The New York Times in partnership with T Brand Studio, Google, GE, and Mini, won the mobile category’s Grand Prix award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for its integration of virtual reality smart phone technology and Google cardboard headsets to provide its readers with an unprecedented virtual reality experience. NYT has […]
At the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the Swedish Tourist Association along with creative agency INGO Stockholm, won a gold award in the mobile category for their creation of The Swedish Number, which allows people from other countries to call any Swede who has downloaded the Swedish Number App. In 1766, Sweden was the first country […]
WhatsGerman, a language course based on the already existing digital platform, WhatsApp, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. WhatsGerman is a language course that is delivered through the messaging platform WhatsApp, and is directed towards the large number of refugees that entered Germany in 2015. Germany […]
36 per cent of video content from film-related websites is shared via mobile devices, with action films the most reliant on mobile sharing, with over half of their shares (54 per cent) occuring on mobile, either through social networks, messaging apps or elsewhere. The figures come from marketing tech firm RadiumOne, which also found that […]
2016’s back-to-school shopping seems to have parents spending more on mobile—and more overall. According to the results of a survey released today by Rubicon project, more than a third of parents have already begun shopping for the fall, spending an average of $917 per child. Parents of college freshmen are spending even more than that—more […]
Samsung is set to join the Olympics. No, it won’t send its own team but expect the tech giant to be one of the biggest sponsors in Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics. We know that the South Korean tech company is working on a special Olympic Edition of the Galaxy S7 edge but there’s […]
Augmented reality app Blippar believes its efforts to get people to use it for visual search, rather than searching through Google, should hit critical mass by early 2017 when it will have the ubiquity to appeal to more advertisers. It’s stopped short of saying how many users that equates to, though the app is already […]
At the Cannes Lions festival, Yahoo announced “Yahoo Tiles,” a new mobile ad format for the “post-tap world.” It offers 360-degree imagery and video on the Yahoo Gemini and BrightRoll ad platforms. Here’s the company’s description: Yahoo Tiles enables brands to tell visually compelling and immersive stories on mobile devices in a post-tap environment. When […]