Four in every five car buyers open to using video to support purchase

Four in every five car buyers open to using video to support purchase

The scale of the car-buying audience who is open to using video to support their purchase decisions now represents 80% of in-market consumers, according to the latest research from automotive video expert, CitNOW. The move towards a remote but personalised car-buying experience, powered by video technology, is now being fuelled by this consumer appetite. In […]

Taptica Acquires Tremor Video’s Demand-Side Platform for $50 Million

Taptica Acquires Tremor Video’s Demand-Side Platform for $50 Million

Taptica, a global end-to-end mobile advertising platform that helps the world’s top brands reach their most valuable users with the widest range of traffic sources available, announced the acquisition of Tremor Video‘s demand-side platform (DSP), an industry-leading technology stack built for video optimisation and attribution, for $50 million. Tremor Video DSP will operate as an independent […]

Snapchat offers “Advanced Mode” for advertisers

Snapchat offers “Advanced Mode” for advertisers

Snapchat has revamped its self-service advertising tool with an “Advanced Mode” designed for larger brands looking to conduct bigger campaigns at scale. The Advanced Mode for its Snapchat Ad Manager works in a similar way to Facebook’s Power Editor, giving brands more tools to build, manage and scale their campaigns faster and more efficiently. Advanced […]

IAB launches quiz and guides to improve the ad industry’s digital literacy

IAB launches quiz and guides to improve the ad industry’s digital literacy

The Interactive Advertising Bureau has launched an online quiz for practitioners to measure their knowledge of industry jargon as part of a push to improve the sector’s digital literacy. Along with the quiz, IAB Australia has also released three new glossaries designed to improve understanding of video, audio and mobile metrics. Vija Solanki, the IAB’s CEO, said the decision to create […]

Google may be introducing a Snapchat Discover-like feature

Google may be introducing a Snapchat Discover-like feature

Google is reportedly developing a feature, based on its AMP (accelerated mobile pages) service, that works in a similar way to Snapchat’s Discover section. Stamp, a portmanteau of ‘Stories’ and AMP, will see publishers create visually-oriented content through a series of ‘swipeable’ slides including text, photos and video – according to the Wall Street Journal. The […]

Global Smartphone Demand Hits New High as Sales Price Rises

Global Smartphone Demand Hits New High as Sales Price Rises

Global smartphone demand totalled 347 million units in 2Q17, up four percent year-on-year, marking the strongest second quarter on record, according to new research.  The study, from GfK, indicates that emerging Asian countries led the demand growth with a 13 percent year-on-year increase, followed by Central and Eastern Europe at 11 percent, and Latin America […]

Nielsen: Mobile more accurate than PC at targeting people

Nielsen: Mobile more accurate than PC at targeting people

Online campaigns struggle to target women. The Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector struggles most to reach targets. Mobile tends to be more accurate than PCs when it comes to successfully serving ads to the age and gender advertisers intended, according to a study of 60,000 campaigns across 20+ countries by measurement company Nielsen. The data, collected […]

J. Walter Thompson Brings 19 Crimes’ Wine Bottles to Life via a New Immersive AR App

J. Walter Thompson Brings 19 Crimes’ Wine Bottles to Life via a New Immersive AR App

Treasury Wine Estates’ brand 19 Crimes recently collaborated with creative technology company Tactic and J. Walter Thompson SF to release a wine label unlike any other. Using augmented reality (AR), the San Francisco-based Tactic developed an innovative 19 Crimes app for iOS and Android devices. The easy-to-use technology brings the torrid stories of each bottle to life by animating […]