As of June 25th, Chinese tourists travelling to Helsinki are able to use the WeChat mobile service to review local recommendations about the best restaurants, shopping, events and sights in town, plan how they will get from their hotel to the attraction of their choice, and pay for transportation – all within one mobile service. […]
Instagram is to introduce ads to its Explore feed, which is the part of Instagram where users go to see photos and videos from accounts they may not already follow. More than 50 per cent of accounts on Instagram use Explore every month, and 80 per cent of Instagram users follow a business on the platform. […]
Coca-Cola North America is launching a digital marketplace this fall that connects its foodservice customers to pre-vetted, industry-best restaurant technologies with competitive pricing. The marketplace of solutions for front of house, back of house and outside of house is powered by Omnivore, a universal point-of-sale connectivity platform, that offers seamless integration into restaurants’ point-of-sale (POS) systems. […]
Admix, a monetisation platform for Extended Reality (XR), has announced that over 200 brands have run ad campaigns in VR and AR environments via its platform. The brands, buying direct on Admix’s platform or via ad exchanges, also include Shell, Subway, Ford, Apple, Nike and many more global household names. It has also announced that […]
New Zealand telco Spark has released a new activation that aims to showcase Maori oral traditions by celebrating Matariki, a star cluster that occurs in late May or early June and marks the beginning of the new year. People who dial 0800 MATARIKI will hear nine stories for every star voiced by four Kiwi. They […]
The Ozone Project, the transparent and brand safe platform for programmatic advertising, announced its partnership with OpenX, the leading independent advertising exchange, as Ozone Audience’s self-service partner. The partnership will see Ozone Audience’s segments made available to buyers via OpenX deals, giving brands and buyers’ greater control of their buying whilst diversifying the demand Ozone delivers […]
Flying Blue, the Air France-KLM loyalty programme, one of the largest in Europe, has launched a service to tackle jetlag: one of the biggest challenges for travellers. It has partnered with Isobar to create the “Jetlag Social Club” – the first guide of its kind designed by an airline loyalty programme. Developed as an app, this service […]
Total spend on digital advertising will reach $520bn (£409bn) by 2023, rising from $294bn this year, according to new analysis from Juniper Research. This is an average annual growth of 15 per cent over the next five years, driven by the use of AI-based programmatic advertising to deliver highly targeted ads. For the purposes of Juniper’s […]
Hungry and thirsty 7-Eleven customers who use the 7NOW delivery smartphone app to order their favourite products now have more freedom to stay in the moment. With the latest app update, the world’s largest convenience retailer has set up thousands of locations, called 7NOW Pins, that enable customers to receive delivery where it’s convenient for them. This proprietary technology […]
The Smithsonian Channel wants to take people to the moon, and they’re doing it through augmented reality (AR). Smithsonian Channel’s new moon landing AR app is a way for consumers to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing by sharing personalised content socially. The app is a companion piece to the original series ‘Apollo’s Moon Shot,’ and offers […]