UK retail giant Tesco is testing a contactless system that will make the paper receipt a thing of the past, instead sending a digital record of your purchases to your smartphone as part of the payment process. According to the Daily Mail, the system is being trialled at self-service tills in two stores in Harlow, […]
Even as mobile dominates online display budgets, this rapid growth could be superfluous if advertisers aren’t prepared to properly address the effectiveness of mobile ads and their role in brands’s marketing mix modelling, warn experts. Sharper measurement is often talked about but rarely defined for a mobile market which many believe is falling behind the […]
AT&T has worked 140 years to perfect phone service, while Time Warner Inc. has spent decades churning out popular magazines, television shows and movies for the big screen. But the two companies, which both are laboring to hold onto customers, confront a similar challenge: how to deliver content to younger consumers who are turning away […]
Google, which is set to report Q3 earnings this week, now makes more ad dollars from mobile than from the desktop globally, according to eMarketer’s latest estimates of ad revenues at major publishers. But in its home market of the US, that revenue flip is still in the (very near) future. The shift in share […]
China is, by a sizable margin, the world’s fastest growing mobile advertising market. The east Asian giant saw mobile ad spend rise 931% in Q2 2016 over 2015, according to data from mobile ad platform Smaato. This compares to an overall rise in mobile ad spending increasing 103% globally. Other notable jumps were seen in […]
Yahoo announced the availability of two new ad products for advertisers in Singapore: Yahoo Tiles, a new mobile ad format that brands can leverage to reach consumers through engaging, interactive 360 degree content and 360 creatives offering immersive ads for desktops and mobile using augmented reality and panoramic imagery. Yahoo Tiles enables brands to tell […]
R/GA London, the company for the Connected Age, is working with the Unilever oral care brand, Signal Pepsodent, to drive worldwide behavioural change in just 21 days with a free service which encourages parents and children to brush their teeth together and develop good brushing habits for life. “Little Brush, Big Brush” is one of […]
Nobody likes receiving junk texts – but what if a potential customer indicated they wanted to hear from you? That appears to be Google’s thinking behind click-to-message ads, a new AdWords feature that invites consumers to send SMS text messages to companies that provide products or services they might be interested in using. “If you’re […]
Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum has raised $29 million in a Series C round, led by Canaan Partners with participation from Kleiner Perkins and Shasta Ventures. It’s a big round for the startup company, which left Seattle for San Francisco shortly after graduating from the Techstars program in 2012. The latest round brings total funding in Leanplum […]
Xaxis, the world’s largest programmatic audience company, announced the launch of native ad specialist plista in Singapore and Taiwan. Part of the Xaxis portfolio, plista is the industry’s most comprehensive programmatic platform for native ads and the first to provide a single source solution for buying in-feed, outstream video, recommendation widgets and in-ad formats across […]