Twitter has followed the leads of Facebook and Google by banning cryptocurrency advertising on its platform. “We are committed to ensuring the safety of the Twitter community. As such, we have added a new policy for Twitter Ads relating to cryptocurrency,” the company says. “Under this new policy, the advertisement of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) […]
Spotify has restated key usage metrics for 2017 leading up to its IPO next month, claiming it recently discovered 2 million users had been accessing the free version of the streaming-music service using unauthorized apps that blocked ads. “On March 21, 2018, we detected instances of approximately two million users as of December 31, 2017, […]
Amid growing industry speculation about cuts to digital advertising budgets, Zenith has found no evidence that advertisers as a whole are shifting budgets away from online advertising – in fact, its share of global advertising expenditure continues to rise rapidly. Zenith forecasts that advertisers will spend 40.2% of their budgets on online advertising this year, […]
Bolstered by the growing demand for digital video content from millennials, digital ad spending is set to overtake TV ad spending in Japan in 2020, according to eMarketer. The report further states that TV will account for a 32.4% share, which is $13.4bn, while digital will account for 29.8%. By the end of 2020, eMarketer […]
Research undertaken by Verve, a location based mobile marketing platform, finds that consumers are twice as likely to interact with mobile ads informed by location insights than with generic ads. The findings also reveal that a mobile ad related to consumers’ hobbies and interests drives more than twice as much engagement than with a generic […]
A man dances his way through a crowded marketplace, picking up desired purchases just by gazing into his iPhone X. That’s the concept behind Apple’s new spot, ‘Fly Market,’ which shines a light on the ease of using the device’s Face ID and Apple Pay. In the film a young man walks through a […]
Snapchat is continuing its focus on location-based advertising initiatives. The app is rolling out three new ad tools, two that include location-based targeting options and an in-store analytics tool that lets advertisers track traffic at their brick-and-mortar locations. Location Categories Of the two new location-based ad features, the first is a location category filter. Advertisers […]
Brits aren’t against the idea of letting a brand they like sponsor them, with 42 percent claiming the would let a desired brand put their logo and the words ‘sponsored by’ in the bottom corner of their profile photo across social media. The findings come from a YouGov survey of over 2,000 Brits, commissioned by […]
Pandora is set to acquire digital audio ad technology company AdsWizz for $145m in an effort to bolster its advertising revenues. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2018 and is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval. Pandora agreed to pay $145m in a combination of cash and stock, […]
Truth, The Marketing Group’s (TMG) blockchain-enabled media agency, has announced the first successful launch of an advertising campaign using blockchain smart contract technology. The campaign, which ran across a national publisher for ten days until 19 March 2018, saw media agency Truth fully disclose all fees involved to the client. Blockchain as a technology has […]