Smaato, the leading global real-time advertising platform for mobile publishers and app developers, has announced the integration of a vast trove of mobile audience data into the Smaato Demand Platform (SDX) from adsquare, the neutral and transparent mobile data exchange. Through Smaato’s industry-first exchange-side integration with adsquare, Smaato’s 450+ mobile-first DSPs and demand partners connected to SDX can […]
Vodafone has said it wants to be seen as an innovator as it continues its pivot towards a customer-centric strategy, with the telecom firm’s Chief Operating Officer and Director of Customer Service Neil Blagden, explaining why AI is helping fuel a shift in perception for the brand. Fresh from following its competitor Three in abolishing roaming […]
Up until recently, the thought of turning on your mobile data when abroad may have seemed like a ludicrous idea. It seemed that each year brought with it a fresh batch of horror stories about holidaymakers being hit with monster mobile phone bills after downloading movies while overseas, and I’m sure you must have heard […]
Snapchat has launched a fresh set of self-serve tools globally, which will allow all brands using the platform to create bespoke ads and target them without the need for a third-party. The company has added a feature called Snap Publisher to its toolkit for brands. The tool has been in testing for the past few […]
Amazon is reportedly developing an encrypted messaging app called Anytime, designed as a direct competitor to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other popular messaging apps. According to a report in AFTV News, the encrypted service could integrate SMS, video and voice calls, stickers, gifs and emojis, games, photo sharing, ‘@mentions’ and photo and video filters. The service […]
Mr Bean, the buffoonish alien sitcom character played by Rowan Atkinson in the 90s, is the face of a new mobile phone game to attract tourists to London. London & Partners, the mayor of London’s promotional agency, has hired Endemol Shine Group and Pointvoucher to design and market “Play London with Mr Bean”, which uses the […]
Facebook has created five new messaging tags, which enable bots created for its Messenger platform to respond to customer actions in specific ways and send messages outside of the 24-hour window usually allowed for interactions. The new tags enable Messenger bots to provide users with updates about existing appointments, events in computer games or sports they are […]
Online video viewing will rise 20% in 2017, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2017, published on July 17. Global consumers will spend an average of 47.4 minutes a day viewing videos online this year, up from 39.6 minutes in 2016. This increase will be driven by a 35% increase in viewing on mobile devices (smartphones […]
Mobile advertising firm Taptica announced on July 17, that it agreed to acquire 57 percent of Adinnovation Inc for up to $5.7 million in cash, the first Israeli acquisition of a Japanese mobile ad company. Following the opening of Taptica’s office in Seoul in 2016, and together with its presence in China, the acquisition is […]
The Natural History Museum opens its doors to reveal an awe-inspiring blue whale skeleton as the star of its redeveloped central space, Hintze Hall. As part of the project, audiences are invited to discover more about the whale in both its natural and preserved environments via a new digital experience which is part of a […]