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 […]
Mobile advertisers are spending more money on Android, according to September data on mobile ad spending from a report by mobile marketing firm Fiksu DSP. Apple’s iOS remains the more competitive platform for mobile ads, but advertisers are willing to pay higher mobile ad prices across both platforms now. Fiksu’s new indexes, launched today, measure cost […]
Addictive Mobility, a leading mobile ad tech solution provider and Adobe Audience Manager, the industry’s leading data management platform (DMP), have successfully completed a platform integration that will allow brands to extend high-value audience segments from cross-device channels to the mobile environment. Adobe Audience Manager, a core solution within Adobe Marketing Cloud, consolidates audience information […]