Facebook Watch, the social network’s streaming video platform, is getting its global rollout, just over a year after the service launched in the US. Content will include familiar names as well as original programming and exclusive series. The content lineup includes entertainment, news and sports programs, and aims to position Facebook as a more legitimate […]
Marketing automation platform Punchh and TGI Fridays UK revealed results driven by the casual dining chain’s new mobile app, expanded customer loyalty and relationship programs. In just four weeks, TGI Fridays realised significant uplift over multiple key performance indicators, including: Loyalty Visits: Up 61 percent Signups: Up 30 percent Unique guests: Up 51 percent Loyalty Revenue: Up 66 percent […]
Music streaming service Pandora announced three advertising formats to help marketers target users better, and explained how ads of varying lengths can work together to help them meet their goals. The company said Short Form Audio, four to ten second audio spots; Dynamic Audio, tailored to listeners based on Pandora’s data; and Sequential Audio, which […]
TabMo is expanding the creative options available to advertisers and agencies using its mobile creative demand side platform (DSP) Hawk through a new partnership with Playground xyz, a specialist rich media platform and marketplace for unique advertising formats on mobile. The Playground xyz formats are high impact units that enable advertisers to increase brand awareness and improve […]
Courtship, now known as dating, has been happening since the beginning of time and has drastically changed over the last few decades. Long gone are the days of parents arranging meeting between family friends since technology has now enabled everyone to become a serial dater. Move over Match, OKCupid and eHarmony, dating apps have arrived […]
Ikea Indonesia took a classic problem for Jakartans – traffic – and used data to prove that they could travel, eventually driving greater footfall at its stores. As with a lot of Ikea stores around the world, it is placed in an area that could be considered hard to get to. While in many other […]
Island Records has partnered with locations-based experiences platform Landmrk to mark the release of Sweetener, the new album by Ariana Grande, with an innovative mixed reality campaign. The record label is expecting thousands of fans to travel to hotspots across the UK to unlock VIP prizes. Fans can discover the various hotspots via a dedicated website, and upon arriving […]
Snapchat will have a larger user base among UK adults ages 18 to 24 than Facebook in 2018, according to new research. The data, from eMarketer’s latest forecast on social network usage, indicates that the number of Snapchat users in the UK will reach 16.2 million this year, of which 5.0 million (or nearly 31%) […]
The UK is the largest market for digital ad spending in Europe, with more than double the amount of spending in digital channels than Germany, the next biggest market. And increasingly, digital ad spending is moving to mobile. eMarketer forecast that overall digital ad spending for 2018 will account for 63.6% of total media ad […]
Huawei has taken Apple’s spot as the world’s second top-selling smartphone manufacturer, according to Gartner. The report notes that Huawei sold 49.8 million units in the second quarter of 2018, taking 13.3 percent of the smartphone market share and beating out Apple’s 44.7 million units. The report confirms another report from Counterpoint research. That 13.3 percent market […]