Facebook is upping the usefulness of its Messenger chat service by integrating its personal assistant M for users in the UK. The feature is expanding beyond the USA, touching down with UK users to aid them with its artificial intelligence-driven suggestions, dropping into conversations to suggest stickers, polls, birthday celebrations, group gatherings and location sharing. Furthermore, […]
Uber is bringing its in-app tipping feature to the UK, after rolling it out to the US as of the company’s 180 days of change. Tipping is a feature that has long been called for and drivers may now feel adequately rewarded for their service. Customers are given the option to tip their driver once the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
Homegrown messaging platform Hike is intensifying its marketing strategy in India. It recently beat Whatsapp to integrating wallet payments to push Digital India initiative. It has now introduced Bae Buddy Bro, a social experience to mark the occasion of Friendship Day and Rakhsa Bandhan. If the users’ sentiments (the options are bae, buddy or bro) […]
YouTube is facing off strident competition from Facebook to be the defacto place where people talk about social video – and to do this it is releasing an in-app messaging service. In a blogpost, the company, using Justin Bieber’s record breaking single ‘Despacito’ as a prime example, said it wants users sharing videos directly with friends and […]
Australian-owned taxi app, ihail has appointed M&C Saatchi Mobile to look after its mobile first launch to the local market. Affiliated with over 20,000 taxis, ihail connects Australians with more taxis than any other transport app across the country. Since launching in 2016, ihail has quickly become renowned for its efficient, affordable service through the […]