MediaBrix, a fast-growing startup whose software delivers “moment-based” mobile advertising, is going after one of the most difficult demographics in the ad business – teens. MediaBrix gives advertisers a chance to target people based on what is happening when they are using an app, as well as on the emotions commonly associated with those circumstances. […]
PwC and IAB UK released the latest digital ad spend study, with the long-awaited news that mobile ad spend (£802m) has taken over desktop spend (£762m) for the first time. In fact, it is mobile that has driven the growth in overall digital ad spend, which has seen a 16.4% rise – the highest first-half […]
WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company Xaxis, the world’s largest global programmatic media and technology platform, has agreed to acquire, subject to regulatory approval, Triad Retail Media, a leading digital retail media specialist in the US. Triad’s gross revenues were over US$500 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 with net revenues of […]
Over 30,000 people petitioned for the addition of a taco emoji to the current collection of emojis. These expressive images have evolved from yellow, googly eyed balls to highly-detailed, racially-diverse faces. But why settle for one visual representation of a culture when you can have a full catalogue of emojis tailored specifically to a country’s […]
If the future of advertising is mobile-led, then O2-owner Telefonica’s measured attempt to control the delivery of ads across its network spotlights the power it could wield in a market dominated by Facebook and Google. There aren’t many mobile operators that don’t harbor a similar ambition, though like the Spain-based provider – the bulk of […]
Reading this on your smartphone? Company advertising departments will be pleasantly unsurprised. Consumers’ obsession with their smartphones meant that firms increased their mobile advertising budgets by 56 per cent year-on-year to £1.7bn in the first half of 2016. This means that 36p in every £1 spent on internet advertising now goes on phones, up from […]
By 2018, Mobile Devices will account for 64% of all online Video Consumption. Users are hooked to Video Content on Mobile with average time spent over 19 Minutes a day. 48% of Millenials view Video only on Mobile Devices. In 2015, Video Viewing accounted for half the Global Mobile Traffic and worldwide revenue is expected […]
In 2016, mobile-driven commerce will reach an estimated US$972.25 billion across the 46 markets where Euromonitor International conducts this digital research. Most impressively, mobile payments are expected to reach US$3 trillion by 2021. While that is a lot of transacted money across these small-screen devices, mobile-based payments will equate to only an estimated 11 percent […]
IPG Media Lab, the creative technology arm of IPG Mediabrands, in partnership with Thinknear, a leading location-based marketing platform, today announced the results of a quantitative media trial examining how location based audience targeting (LBA) compares versus more traditional methods such as designated market area targeting (DMA) in mobile. The resulting infographic, Harnessing the Power […]
Snapchat has been growing at rate faster than any other social media app. Millennials seem to love it, and even famous personalities born in the 1920s have recognized its potential. Indeed, former Israeli president and towering political figure Shimon Peres joined Snapchat in the very last days of his life. Credible rumors suggest that a […]