Skype has begun testing new features on its mobile app. The Microsoft-owned communication platform has introduced in-call reactions, messaging reactions, an integrated camera, and a ‘find’ panel, in beta. In-call reactions enable the user to add live emoticons, text and photos to video calls – similar to a Facebook Live video or Periscope. In addition, […]
AccuWeather has announced the launch of the AccuWeather Mobile Integration Suite, a new context-based mobile advertising package available exclusively from AccuWeather to effectively reach consumers on the go. AccuWeather says it understands the unique needs and expectations of mobile users and can provide strategic mobile-first insights and customized campaign solutions to advertisers. AccuWeather has applied […]
Tinder has announced that it is to acquire a social video startup called Wheel, which lets users share Snapchat-style video clips. The LA-based app was originally launched in 2015 under the name Ferris on the premise of making it easy for people to share and collaborate on mobile videos with their friends. Tinder has now […]
Retailers need to embrace next generation technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) if they want shoppers to continue using their apps, new research has found. The study found that nearly 30% of consumers would like to see more innovation in mobile apps, so that they provide a better, more personalised shopping […]
Ad requests containing location data are booming, new research suggests. From 2015 to 2016, such requests rose 170%, according to mobile ad exchange Inneractive, which based the findings on an analysis of its own mobile ad traffic. In 2016, the firm also found a 20% increase in eCPM for ad requests that included GPS data, […]
People in the UK are connecting to the web on their phones via WiFi almost three times more frequently than on 4G, according to new research by mobile data platform Ogury. But, with the UK telecoms regulator setting a timetable for the launch of 5G services by 2020, Ogury is calling for the telecoms industry […]
MAGNA, the intelligence, investment and innovation unit within IPG Mediabrands, and IPG Media Lab, its creative technology arm, announced the results of a scientific media trial that analyzed audience behaviours around ad skipping and identified critical steps to help advertisers maximize the impact of their skippable video ad campaigns. The report, entitled Turbo Charging Your […]
AI Content marketing platform Codec has signed 14 new customers including Unilever, Universal Music and L’Oreal. Codec’s platform is said to enable marketers ‘to create better content by giving them an accurate prediction of what audiences care about before they plan’. It provides these marketers with visual insights, detailed views, an understanding of target audience data, […]
Vietnamese broadcast and digital video company, BHD, has signed video inventory management platform, SpotX, to power the monetisation of its diverse media properties around the globe. As one of the largest media companies in Vietnam, BHD’s activities range from production, cinema exhibition, pay TV channels and VOD service. With more than 20 years experience in […]
Two-thirds (66%) of marketing professionals no longer include mobile apps in their marketing campaigns, according to new research. The State of Digital Commerce report, launched by Episerver, examines the retail and e-commerce trends set to shape 2017. The report analyses the mobile presence of 100 top UK retail brands and draws on research with 1,200 […]