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 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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tapjoy has introduced Interactive End Cards to its suite of advertising capabilities. The end cards appear after a rewarded video ad and allow viewers to tap, slide, and move their phone around to interact with the screen. These screens can also include links off to other services. Twentieth Century Fox made use of these interactive […]
From Grumpy Cat to OMG Cat and, of course, the classic Nyan Cat video, the world is cat-mad. In fact, cat related media content is shared twice as much as selfies online. Virgin Media has put its own unique spin on this craze and created a meow-nificent piece of social content to support the Virgin […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]