To inspire sweethearts to “live less of the same,” Telefonica’s Vivo – largest telecom operator in Brazil – launched on June 12th, when Valentine’s Day is celebrated in Brazil the campaign #relove, created by ad Agency Africa and directed by Vellas from Saigon. In the film the brand narrates the story of a guy that draws […]
Independent mobile advertising platform, AdColony, announced the launch of Aurora HD Video, a suite of interactive mobile video creative products that fundamentally changes the way consumers can physically engage with video content. Aurora HD Video allows advertisers to immerse consumers into video content, delivering branding and engagement goals with TV-like reach. Powered by AdColony’s Instant-Play […]
Indonesian telcos are undergoing a digital renaissance it seems, with Hutchison 3 Indonesia joining Telkomsel in moving further with their digital strategy. For H3I this resulted in getting Postr, an adtech company that utilises a smartphone’s lock screen as an advertising display. Users who have ads on their lock screen will then be able to […]
MAGNA, the intelligence, investment and innovation unit within IPG Mediabrands, and IPG Media Lab, their creative technology arm, in partnership with Twitter announced the results of a scientific media trial examining the location of video ads within a social environment. The resulting report, The Art of the Takeover: Optimizing What Consumers See First, reveals best practices for in-feed advertising as […]
AerServ, the leading ad management technology and SSP for mobile publishers and advertisers, announced the launch of DataServ, a new data as a service product that will connect CRM and offline data to mobile data and offer an additional revenue stream for mobile publishers. DataServ will give mobile publishers the ability to generate revenue beyond […]
A new martech start-up, Printt, has developed an app and a printer system that provides free printing services for university students in exchange for watching ads. Students can either watch an in-app video ad while they’re waiting for their job to print, or have small banner ads printed on the bottom of every page. The […]
Snapchat is launching a new promotional Lenses ad format that lets advertisers superimpose corporate logos on their photos and videos. Unlike the platform’s popular filters, these new Lens ads don’t have to be used on images or video depicting faces. An example of this was seen on Cinco de Mayo when Snapchat teamed up with […]
AppsFlyer, a mobile attribution and measurement company, has launched its Indonesia Performance Index and finds Facebook ranking first across the board. The Index is spilt between two categories of gaming and non-gaming, further segmented into Android and iOS. The methodology calculates non-organic and organic retention rates over a 30-day period, dividing the active users in a […]
The FAB Awards have unveiled the finalists for the 19th edition of the awards programme. FAB is an International Awards programme focused entirely on work done for Food and Beverage brands. It recognises the critical contribution that outstanding creative work makes to build brands, it identifies and rewards the leading practitioners from over 60 countries, and […]
Facebook’s advertising sales in the first quarter of 2017 grew by 51% to $7.9 billion, helping the social media giant exceed analysts’ expectations. The revenue boost pushed up net income in the quarter by 76% to $3.1 billion. Mobile advertising made up 85% of sales—up from 82% in the first quarter of 2016. The company’s […]