Nike Hyper Court brings digital content to basketball courts in Manila

Nike Hyper Court brings digital content to basketball courts in Manila

Championing the Filipino peoples’ love of basketball, Sydney-based post house Heckler has recently collaborated on a global project with BBH Singapore to bring an inventive online/offline campaign for Nike in partnership with Google to young basketball players in the country’s capital city of Manila. With the aim to improve the skills of the nation’s young […]

A lack of online payment options is limiting the growth potential of UK retailers, according to Visualsoft

A lack of online payment options is limiting the growth potential of UK retailers, according to Visualsoft

UK retailers are restricting their own online sales growth potential by up to 30 per cent due to only offering limited payment options, according to research by eCommerce and digital agency Visualsoft. The study found that 19 per cent of the UK’s top 240 retailers fail to offer any payment choice outside of mainstream credit […]

WhatsApp starts digital payment tests in India

WhatsApp starts digital payment tests in India

WhatsApp has begun testing a new payments feature in India that will allow people to send money to other WhatsApp users, excluding merchant accounts. The feature is currently in beta, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans, but hasn’t been publicly announced because it’s not widely available at this time. The company has been […]

Adobe Reveals Gen Z are UK’s Biggest Content Consumers, Engaging with over 10 Hours of Online Content a Day

Adobe Reveals Gen Z are UK’s Biggest Content Consumers, Engaging with over 10 Hours of Online Content a Day

Britons are addicted to digital content, with UK millennials spending 8.5 hours – over half of the average waking day (53%) – reading, watching, liking, creating and sharing content across their devices. For Generation Z, this rises to 10.6 hours, while the UK average is 6.9 hours. The findings come from Adobe’s latest report into […]

SpotX and Smartclip merger promises unified ad tech platform

SpotX and Smartclip merger promises unified ad tech platform

Video ad serving platform SpotX has set aside its differences with fellow video advertising platform Smartclip to form a single global company operating under a joint management team. The merger will see creation of an ad tech powerhouse operating under the SpotX brand capable of providing over 1,000 broadcasters and digital publishers with the tools […]

Snapchat’s new live video mode goes for Olympic gold

Snapchat’s new live video mode goes for Olympic gold

Snapchat is planning to show clips of the Winter Olympics to its users thanks to a new tool which allows television networks to send parts of live shows to the app. Snap partnered with NBCUniversal to pipe clips of the latter’s Olympic broadcasts to the app, along with live updates and contextual information. For example, […]

Over a billion smartphones to have facial recognition in 2020, according to Counterpoint

Over a billion smartphones to have facial recognition in 2020, according to Counterpoint

More than 1 billion smartphones will be shipped with facial recognition technology in 2020, after the same figure of smartphones are shipped this year with fingerprint sensors. According to research from Counterpoint, we can expect to see mobile devices to combine biometric sensors for the face, iris, voice, and fingerprints, as opposed to competing with […]