Starbucks is inviting Facebook users to find out which iced coffee drink best suits their lifestyle, reflecting a resurgence in popularity for mobile-optimized personality quizzes as consumers seek out quick hits of entertainment. The coffee giant is sponsoring ads on Facebook to promote its newest mobile quiz, which consists of eight summer-themed questions designed to […]
Twitter has begun rolling out a way to not only add stickers to your photos, but to also have them be searchable. In the app, choose from a “rotating set of stickers,” then resize and move them around as you see fit on any photo. After they’ve been tweeted, you can search based on the […]
As the battle for drivers continues to heat up, on-demand car services are tacking on more benefits to build up their army. Today, Uber is taking that one step further with the launch of Pandora music on its driver app. Drivers now have an alternative to traditional radio and are able to enjoy personalized music, […]
Facebook Inc., the world’s most popular social-media site, plans to introduce new tools to help marketers target consumers and spread their messages via mobile phones, in a bid to encourage more businesses to advertise on portable devices. The Menlo Park, California-based company, which gets 82 percent of its advertising revenue from mobile, plans to make […]
According to a study from the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB), TV is a significant driver of traffic for mobile apps. The “What’s App’ning” report, the third from the VAB on the connection between TV advertising and online traffic, indicates a 77 per cent correlation between TV advertising and traffic for 60 popular mobile apps. Examining […]
Taxi firm Uber launches Deliveroo-like food delivery service in London – and here’s how you might be able to get a free lunch out of it. Your lunch break is about to get a little bit more snappy thanks to a new rollout from Uber. The US-based taxi service, which has rapidly expanded across the […]
Taco Bell is one of the brands leveraging xAd’s new MarketPlace Discovery platform to gain more insight into customers’ foot traffic behaviors, exhibiting the importance of tapping real-time data to serve consumers the right message at the right time. Taco Bell is using the real-time mobile location intelligence platform to uncover time-of-day as well as […]
Speaking June 15 as Wimbledon launched its digital strategy for 2016’s tournament, Desmond acknowledged the impact of social in gaining a younger audience for tennis. He said the Wimbledon mobile website saw visits up 125% to 5.6m last year, while ‘likes’ on Facebook grew 55% (to 3.3 million) and ‘followers’ rose 74% (to 2.2 million) […]
In 2014, KLM threw down the gauntlet. The Dutch airline promised it would respond within 30 minutes if anyone tweeted or Facebooked with it. That audacious claim of customer service via social media came literally out of an ordeal by fire. In 2010, a volcano eruption in Iceland stranded travelers. Faced with a “tsunami in communication,” […]
Facebook has revealed new tools it promises will help retailers understand if mobile ads get people to go into stores and if they are buying as it looks to cement itself as the platform of choice for brands wanting to measure online ads against offline sales metrics. The update announced yesterday revealed new metrics that will […]