Leader in Data-Tech services, SBDS, announced Rupert Harrow, former advertising sales director at the Economist, has joined its London office as Vice President of Sales. Harrow will play a central role in the company’s ambitious growth plans, liaising closely with the rest of the sales team to strengthen direct brand client relationships, focusing primarily on the […]
Swedish creative agency, Stendahls, have unveiled their latest creative activation: The world’s first hotel room where the price you pay is determined by how much time the guests spend on social media. Here, is where screen time is first introduced as the new currency. “The Check Out Suite” is a unique hotel room in Gothenburg, […]
Grisaille, the two-part mixed reality (MR) painting experience created by experimental artist Teek Mach, will be performed during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The piece is included among the New Frontier section, Sundance Film Festival’s curated collection of media works from creators pushing artistic innovation across new mediums that include VR, AR, MR and AI. […]
Pinterest has announced the US mobile expansion of its skin tone range search tool, which began beta testing in April 2018. The feature enables Pinterest users in the US to customise their beauty searches further by selecting one of four shade ranges most relevant to their needs. The skin tone feature aims to personalise makeup, hair, and […]
HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, announced collaborations with three leading wireless providers in North America – Cricket Wireless and Verizon in the United States and Rogers Communications in Canada. This is the next step in the company’s journey to offer great quality experiences to consumers across accessible price points and to work with […]
Facebook is reportedly has plans to integrate the messaging services of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. All three will remain as standalone apps, but the underlying messaging functions of each will become intertwined. Work to create a unified messaging infrastructure has begun and expected to be complete by the end of the year or in […]
OpenX announced a first of its kind collaboration that will bring the entire OpenX exchange into the cloud with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Through this deployment, OpenX will become the first ever major exchange to move all on-premises workloads fully into the cloud and become truly serverless. Work on integrating the five year technology collaboration […]
Adsmovil, the leading mobile advertising company targeting U.S. Hispanics with a direct relationship with 1,200+ Latin American, Spain and US Hispanic publishers, announces the launch of its audience data platform, ‘Adsmovil Personas,’ which will allow brands and agencies to target U.S. Hispanic audiences via decoupled data from their preferred DSPs at scale. The platform allows […]
Mobiquity Technologies, announced AdCop, the advertising industry’s first transparent ad fraud reporting system to be made available free to brands and marketers as a beta testing program independent from Advangelists. Originally designed as a proprietary Advangelists platform feature, AdCop monitors for programmatic fraud post bid impression. If AdCop suspects fraud, the Advangelists platform renders a blank […]
Data from WARC’s 12 key markets — Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK, US — which between them account for three-quarters of global adspend, and 91.1% of all mobile adspend ($125.6bn), show that mobile is currently the second-largest ad medium, and will overtake TV this year if current growth rates […]