Selfridges Launches Social Shopping App

Selfridges Launches Social Shopping App

Department store and retail brand Selfridges is strengthening its multi-channel offering with the launch of a social media-friendly shoppable app that aims to redefine the conventional mobile shopping journey. In an era where technology is becoming progressively more integrated with luxury retail, Selfridges is hoping to future-proof its retail channels with a new app, part […]

Teads Launches World’s First 360-Degree Outstream Video Ad Format

Teads Launches World’s First 360-Degree Outstream Video Ad Format

Teads, the inventor of outstream video advertising and the world’s number one video advertising marketplace, today unveils inRead 360, the latest addition to its game-changing inRead advertising suite. In a global first, the product offers an interactive and immersive 360-degree ad viewing outstream experience, similar to a Virtual Reality (VR) environment. Advertisers will benefit from […]

Fiksu Launches Four New Mobile Marketing Companies

Fiksu Launches Four New Mobile Marketing Companies

Fiksu, a mobile marketing technology company, and Noosphere, an international asset management firm, announced Monday that they’ve founded four new mobile marketing companies to “inherit the legacy of innovation and success from Fiksu.” According to a provided news release, the new companies will work closely together, but are independent businesses with their own leadership teams, […]

Bluefly launches a new shopping app

Bluefly launches a new shopping app

Fashion e-retailer Bluefly wants to live in its shopper’s pocket, says Carly Rosenberg, president at Bluefly. To do so, it needs to be on consumers’ smartphones, so the retailer, No. 223 Internet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide, recently launched an app that offers all of the retailer’s products. Until last week Bluefly had an outdated […]

PayPal and Visa Reveal Strategic Alliance

PayPal and Visa Reveal Strategic Alliance

Payments platform PayPal and financial firm Visa have announced a strategic partnership that will see the two companies aim to consolidate their mobile payments offering, enhancing their security and growing the audience. According to Visa, the partnership will result in an improved and more seamless payment experience for Visa cardholders and will offer greater choice […]

Pubs and restaurants pay £100 a day to be Pokemon Go destinations in bid to lure gamers through their doors

Pubs and restaurants pay £100 a day to be Pokemon Go destinations in bid to lure gamers through their doors

Pubs and restaurants across the UK are paying to become Pokemon Go destinations in a bid to lure gamers through their doors. Business forking out £100 a day for virtual creatures to be found on their premises are reaping the rewards of the trade dubbed ‘Pokémonomics’. London burger restaurant Maxwell‘s said its revenues have risen […]

AdVoice rolls out audio advertising for Nigerian mobile network operators

AdVoice rolls out audio advertising for Nigerian mobile network operators

AdVoice, the Nigerian-based mobile advertising provider, is rolling out an audio ad channel for operators in the country. The company provides real-time audience targeting for mobile advertisers, but also audio advertising solutions for mobile carriers. AdVoice’s MNO Ad Network has been built specifically for mobile network operators to get a share of the mobile ad […]