Snapchat’s Instant Create tool, which enables advertisers to create vertical video ads on Snapchat more quickly and easily, is officially live. Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel trailed the tool on last week’s Q2 earnings call when he said: “Just this month, we started testing our new Instant Create onboarding flow, which generates ads for businesses […]
The Lovely Mobile Report and Rankings is a look back and celebration of Mobile Marketing done in 2018. It is a result of a year-long research done by us, analyzing the performance of various projects, agencies and brands in the major, global awards programs. The awards programs covered by our team for this report includes […]
Facebook has implemented a series of updates to its suite of ad tools designed to improve the transparency behind targeted of content. The changes include providing people with the reasoning behind why they are being shown specific ads beyond a simple demographic match or internet history. Now more detailed targeting information will be supplied including the specific interests […]
Precise TV, the leading social video advertising platform for hyper-granular contextual targeting and brand safety, launched its healthcare marketing solution, Precise+Health, and announced certification to become fully HIPAA compliant. Healthcare marketers are increasingly discovering the challenges in safely and compliantly targeting relevant audiences across video platforms. Keyword and affinity targeting often is falling short and […]
Internet advertising will account for 52% of global advertising expenditure in 2021, exceeding the 50% mark for the first time, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published on July 8. That’s up from the 47% of global adspend that internet advertising will account for this year, and 44% in 2018. However, the growth rate is […]
WARC, the global marketing intelligence service, has found that advertising revenues among key social and messaging companies rose 26.2% year-on-year during the first three months of 2019 to reach $17.9bn – the second-highest total on record. However, while this growth outpaced all other advertising sectors, it was roughly half the rate of expansion seen just […]
Video advertising software and insights leader Pixability announced the launch of PixabilityONE, a first-of-its-kind software platform powered by data science, used for running campaigns across the premier video advertising destinations, all in one place. Those destinations include YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Connected TV platforms like Amazon. The PixabilityONE platform can be used by brands and […]
Instagram is to introduce ads to its Explore feed, which is the part of Instagram where users go to see photos and videos from accounts they may not already follow. More than 50 per cent of accounts on Instagram use Explore every month, and 80 per cent of Instagram users follow a business on the platform. […]
The Ozone Project, the transparent and brand safe platform for programmatic advertising, announced its partnership with OpenX, the leading independent advertising exchange, as Ozone Audience’s self-service partner. The partnership will see Ozone Audience’s segments made available to buyers via OpenX deals, giving brands and buyers’ greater control of their buying whilst diversifying the demand Ozone delivers […]
Total spend on digital advertising will reach $520bn (£409bn) by 2023, rising from $294bn this year, according to new analysis from Juniper Research. This is an average annual growth of 15 per cent over the next five years, driven by the use of AI-based programmatic advertising to deliver highly targeted ads. For the purposes of Juniper’s […]