Unilever is to pump more of its ad spend into charities, working with ‘ethical adtech platform’ Good-Loop on a Snapchat push for Lynx as it looks to both drive effectiveness and underscore purpose. Good-Loop lets brands drive engagement by incentivising consumers to watch ads online by giving them the chance to ‘unlock’ a charity donation […]
Award shows are filled with glitz, glamour and celebration. However audiences often find themselves tuning out after their nominated categories have passed, when ideally they’d stay engaged throughout the entire evening. So to solve this, and to make sure even people who aren’t there on the night can still be part of the fun, Special […]
The 3rd edition of The Lovely Mobile Awards are now open for entries. The Lovely Mobile Awards are an awards program brought to you by us and honour work done in the Mobile Marketing, Internet of Things (IoT), Digital, New Technology and Connected Devices fields. The Awards are judged by leading members of the global Mobile […]
Tribal Worldwide London, adam&eveDDB and Snapchat have come together to create the world’s first mobile phone-based interactive GTI race track for Volkswagen UK, connecting with GTI admirers across the UK and using cutting edge Augmented Reality (AR) to celebrate the joy of driving and deliver the latest instalment of the Volkswagen GTI ‘People’s Supercar’ campaign. […]
Spend on digital out of home advertising (DOOH) — i.e. video content and/or digital signs located in high traffic public locations such as high streets, airports, bus shelters, subways and malls — is expected to grow 10.1% each year between 2018 and 2021, accounting for the entirety of growth in the out of home (OOH) […]
Global travel management company Carlson Wagonlit Travel has expanded its mobile air booking offering in 20 key markets around the world, giving travellers the option of booking their flights directly on the myCWT app. The service was originally piloted in early 2017 and launched commercially in Q2 2018. Mobile air booking is now being rolled out to […]
YouTube has struck a partnership with custom merchandise company Teespring that lets creators directly sell merchandise through their channels, without viewers ever leaving the page. Teespring and YouTube, will expand the ability for eligible creators in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom to sell merchandise on their channels. This follows […]
Chip, the savings app, has successfully completed its Series A funding round on Crowdcube, raising more than £4m and attracting a record-breaking 7,036 investors on the equity crowdfunding site. Chip is on a mission to build the best savings account in the world. It has already grown to 75,000 accounts, processed £58m of savings and […]
Google has expanded the number of users that have access to its much-hyped, and criticised, AI that can place reservations for people. A spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that Duplex — Google’s artificially intelligent chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone — has expanded from a “set of trusted tester users” earlier this year […]
YouTube has started showing two pre-roll video ads instead of just one, as the site prepares to rival TV on demand services and cater to a growing audience of viewers watching YouTube on their TV screens. The Google-owned streaming site calls them “ad pods”, which are essentially two separate video ads much like a TV […]