While most people spend Friday morning clock watching, waiting for the weekend to start, Absolutinstead tempted eight people to find out what happens if you open up to unexpected experiences and connect with new friends to create an unforgettable night, hosted as part of its #AbsolutNights campaign. With a focus on spontaneity, Absolut partnered withUber […]
Too Good To Go, an app that has just launched its service in London, enables users to buy excess food from restaurants at a discounted rate as takeaway meals. The average restaurant wastes around 100,000 lbs of food a year, with the US, Asia and Europe throwing away enough food to feed the world’s population […]
Yahoo today announced the availability of Yahoo Tiles, a new mobile ad format that brands can leverage to reach consumers through engaging, interactive content. Yahoo Tiles enables brands to tell visually compelling and immersive stories on mobile devices in a post-tap environment. When consumers click on a mobile ad, they are taken to a custom […]
Background: Facebook recently launched a new app called Lifestage. Created by Michael Saymen a 19 year old Product Manager, Lifestage is a social network aimed at video loving teens, ultimately reinventing what Facebook would look like if it was built around the currency of today’s digital world of snackable video. Lifestage mimics the early days […]
This quarter’s report marks the four year anniversary of MoPub‘s Mobile Programmatic Trends Report (find the first report here). Since that time, the landscape for in-app mobile advertising, particularly through real-time bidding exchanges like MoPub Marketplace, has changed dramatically in terms of players, technology standards, and even platforms. On MoPub Marketplace alone, monthly ad impressions […]
South Carolina’s Darlington Raceway has teamed up with Coca-Cola Bottling Co and mobile fan experience technology firm Experience to create an audience engagement app that offers NASCAR fans a chance to win VIP experiences and more. NASCAR enthusiasts can download the app ahead of this Labor Day weekend to be in with a chance of […]
Instagram has been busy updating its features of late. Following up on the debut of Instagram ‘Stories’ and its new tool that enables users to zoom in while taking a video, comes the platform’s highly requested option that allows users to zoom in on photos and videos. This ‘pinch to zoom’ feature works on posts […]
Since 2014, there have been more mobile devices in the world than desktop computers, and people spend more time browsing the internet on their smartphones than on their desktops. So companies simply cannot ignore mobile as a channel to reach their consumers. Today, marketing departments focus a meaningful part of their time and budget on […]
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 […]
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, […]