Universal McCann Malaysia (UM) has developed a first of its kind TV sync campaign for KFC, to launch the Golden Egg Crunch. The campaign is a collaborative brainstorm effort between UM and Ensemble Worldwide, marrying storytelling and innovative media platforms to enhance the campaign message delivery, using TV sync technology. Managing Director of UM and […]
Snap wants to attract new advertisers — specifically, it wants to attract advertisers who are spending money with its biggest competitor, Instagram. To lure them over, Snap is reaching out to those advertisers that are buying vertical video ads on Instagram and other competitors, and offering them free advertising credits to give Snapchat a try. […]
Instagram has further commercialised its service with the launch of all new shopping-enabled adverts designed to lure more brands into setting up shop on the photo and video-sharing site. The Facebook-owned platform has already begun mashing together videos and product catalogues to enable members to purchase depicted products without the need to leave the Instagram […]
If you don’t like seeing ads in Instagram Stories, you’re not going to like the announcement the Facebook-owned company has made. Instagram has introduced an update to Stories ads which will enable publishers to utilize the Carousel ad format to publish up to three pieces of content in a Stories ad. Instagram previously allowed them […]
YouTube is expanding its Super Bowl playbook in 2018. For its 11th annual AdBlitz, its hub of Super Bowl-related content where brands advertising with Google can post their spots for increased engagement and a broader audience, YouTube is rolling out a few new ad products for marketers looking to re-engage with viewers on their second […]
Facebook has made the move to ban any ‘misleading’ advertising related to cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs) in a bid to protect users from the rise in scams and fraud that cryptocurrencies have come along with. Under the newly-created policy, any ads “that promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading […]
UK ad viewability levels reached 56 per cent in the final quarter of 2017, the highest level since the second quarter of 2014. According to ad verification company Meetrics, the proportion of banner ads that met minimum viewability guidelines rose from 52 per cent to the 56 per cent achieved in Q4 2017, meaning levels […]
You can’t escape ads online because they’re often the primary source of revenue for publishers and content creators. Google runs one of the largest ad businesses online and it routinely improves the controls that users have over their online ad experience, to ensure that a balance is struck between ads and user experience. Google has […]
InMobi, an independent mobile in-app advertising platform, has announced an expanded integration of Integral Ad Science (IAS) verification solution to include IAS Firewall tags that now provides advertisers with enhanced viewability reporting for their mobile in-app VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) video campaigns. Recently, InMobi announced that it has acquired AerServ for $90 million. In […]
Over-the-top (OTT) streaming firm Roku has unveiled a series of tools to help marketers get better value from ads on the platform. The new feature, dubbed Ad Insights, will offer expanded OTT measurement for brands as well as give access to data around reach and effectiveness across linear and digital formats. Less than 12 months […]