For the app economy, 2016 was a great year with $52 billion is gross consumer spending on mobile app stores. Close to $77 billion was spent in mobile in-app advertising this year, shows data from data firm App Annie. The firm believes that 2017 will be ‘another banner year for the app ecosystem’. Talking about […]
Opera Mediaworks announced its new company name will be AdColony with the goal of unifying the brand, performance and publishing business under a single name. The name change will become effective starting in January 2017, and the company will continue to stay independent, with the corporate entity listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under Opera […]
Warc, the global marketing intelligence service, concludes that Artificial Intelligence (AI), defined as the ability of computers to take on tasks that have previously required human intelligence to complete – such as speech recognition or interpreting data – will have a major impact on the marketing industry in 2017. David Tiltman, Warc’s Head of Content, […]
Bacardi is employing Instagram Stories to let consumers play interactive DJ, representing a truly new kind of musical experience on the 4-month-old feature. Working with agency BBDO and Facebook’s Creative Shop, the liquor brand’s global chief creative for culture, Swizz Beatz, has concocted a way for viewers to feel like their hands are doing scratches and […]
Mobiquity Networks, a next generation location marketing and data insight company that operates a nationwide location‐based mobile advertising network of beacons, has partnered with a major weather related app to join its App Publisher Network. This app will add approximately 70 million US downloaded users to Mobiquity’s existing publisher network. The Mobiquity Publisher Network is […]
YOC, a German mobile advertising company, has announced in its annual results of its UK operations that over 50 per cent of its business now comes from programmatic advertising. The figures released on both its branding and performance business against sales of programmatic services show a monthly revenue increase. CEO of YOC Dirk Kraus said: […]
Uber is the latest tech firm to partner with Disney in promoting the new film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, replacing car images within the app with various Star Wars spaceships including the iconic X-Wing fighter. The promotion will run in hundreds of cities worldwide between 12 and 18 December on an opt-in basis, […]
Gameloft Advertising Solutions announced that it has partnered with Moat, a SaaS analytics and intelligence company focused on building products for brand advertisers and premium publishers, to offer trusted third party measurement and the ability to transact on viewable impressions delivered through the Gameloft mobile advertising network. Used by the world’s top publishers and advertisers, […]
Mobile ad-tech platform InMobi has signed an exclusive partnership with Tapjoy, a US-based mobile advertising and app monetization platform to monetize Tapjoy’s inventory in India. InMobi said that this deal will enable Indian advertisers to expand their reach across several global mobile gaming apps beyond its 135 million unique devices in India. The terms of […]
As millions of people prepare to give loved ones brand new smartphones this holiday season, Facebook is giving businesses more ways to ply their recipients with apps to populate them. The social network is launching a new mobile ad format that lets companies showcase products in which a particular customer has shown an interest along […]