Smartphone Penetration to reach 66% in 2018

Smartphone Penetration to reach 66% in 2018

In 2018, 66% of individuals in 52 key countries* will own a smartphone, up from 63% in 2017 and 58% in 2016, according to Zenith’s Mobile Advertising Forecasts 2017. The rapid expansion of smartphone ownership across the world, which has transformed the way that advertisers communicate with consumers, is slowing down as penetration reaches 80%-90% […]

Google plans on sharing its Revenue with News Publishers

Google plans on sharing its Revenue with News Publishers

Google is reportedly planning on sharing its revenue with publishers that make use of its new subscription tools – which were reported alongside the scrapping of the company’s contentious ‘first click free’ policy. Under the subscription model, Google will use the combination of its vast user data and machine learning algorithms to help publishers identify potential […]

Apple, Google and Android are Most Relevant Brands to UK Consumers According to the New Prophet Brand Relevance Index

Apple, Google and Android are Most Relevant Brands to UK Consumers According to the New Prophet Brand Relevance Index

Global consultancy Prophet  today announced the results of the third annual Brand Relevance Index ®, a ranking of the most relevant brands in consumers’ lives today. Apple and Googlemaintained their standings as the top two most relevant brands in the UK for the second year. New entrants in the top ten: Android, Dyson and Lush, squeezed out John Lewis, Disney and WhatsApp. The top ten most relevant brands are: […]

SILVER at MMA Smarties for Out There Media and MediaCom with ‘micro-targeting at scale’ for P&G’s Pantene campaign in Indonesia

SILVER at MMA Smarties for Out There Media and MediaCom with ‘micro-targeting at scale’ for P&G’s Pantene campaign in Indonesia

Out There Media  and MediaCom  have been awarded a Silver at MMA – Mobile Marketing Association’s Smarties Awards in Indonesia for their P&G Indonesia’s Pantene campaign. Commenting on their win: Berlian Dewirani, P&G Indonesia’s Media Manager said “It is a pleasure to work with MediaCom and OTM who have true business and consumer understanding so that we […]

GLORIOUS! Soups stirs up calm at ‘wellness shed’ VR pop-up

GLORIOUS! Soups stirs up calm at ‘wellness shed’ VR pop-up

  Leading chilled soup retail brand GLORIOUS! Soups launched its first virtual reality (VR) pop-up, the world’s first wellness shed, by inviting the co-founders of Mindful Chef to try it out. Myles Hopper and Giles Humphries were the first people to test the novel concept of VR mindfulness at the event yesterday.  GLORIOUS! created a game especially […]

New Research by Common Sense Finds Major Spike in Mobile Media Use and Device Ownership by Children Age 0 to 8

New Research by Common Sense Finds Major Spike in Mobile Media Use and Device Ownership by Children Age 0 to 8

Common Sense today announced the release of The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Age Zero to Eight, the third installment in an ongoing series of national surveys tracking the use of media and technology among U.S. children from birth to age 8. Among the key findings is the spike in the number of young […]

TabMo Partners with Integral Ad Science to Give Marketers an Integrated, Mobile-first Approach to Brand Safety, Fraud and Viewability Measurement

TabMo Partners with Integral Ad Science to Give Marketers an Integrated, Mobile-first Approach to Brand Safety, Fraud and Viewability Measurement

TabMo, the first mobile DSP combining programmatic ad buying with proprietary creative ad units, and Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global measurement and analytics company that builds verification, optimisation, and analytics solutions to empower the advertising industry, today announce a pre-bid integration on TabMo’s Hawk platform. Through this partnership, Hawk gives online marketers improved brand […]

IAB launches ‘Gold Standard’ to clean up online advertising

IAB launches ‘Gold Standard’ to clean up online advertising

  In an effort to raise the standards in digital advertising and address the key issues facing the industry, the IAB UK is launching the “IAB Gold Standard” initiative, comprising three primary actions that media owners can take. Initially, the Gold Standard has three fundamental aims – to reduce ad fraud, to improve the digital […]