[Photo: Flickr user Takashi Hososhima] The Marketing Tech Venture Studio is billed as an advanced accelerator targeting startups in messaging, AI, bots, and machine learning. Over the last few years, advertising agency R/GA has taken its leadership and innovative approach to digital technology into the startup world by partnering with companies such as German retailer […]
Snapchat has revealed a new interactive ad unit in Australia, launching with Universal Pictures and Maybelline. The ad format was released for Cannes Lions in June this year but it is the first time it has been available Down Under. Like a regular ad, they begin with a full screen video that plays with sound […]
In oder to get a 10% discount on the company’s products, people could go to any of But’s 200 stores in France, snap a screenshot from the game in store and show it at the Checkout. The first two customers in each of the stores who also tweeted their pictures using the hashtag #butattrapezlestous (‘But […]
Today Charlotte Tilbury announced the launch of the world’s first virtual reality experience starring the iconic and globally renowned supermodel, Kate Moss. The dazzlingly beautiful VR experience was created in conjunction with global content production studio and VR specialists Happy Finish, and film director Antoine Wagner. It is the latest element in an extensive global […]
PepsiCo is the first to partner with Twitter for its promoted sticker launch as the next leg in the consumer packaged goods marketer’s Pepsimoji campaign, which is populating the physical and digital realms with millennial-friendly symbols. The promoted Twitter stickers will allow users to connect with Pepsi by incorporating marketed content within their own photos, […]
Instagram has launched a new series of tools for businesses in the UK and across EMEA, bringing developments that have previously been limited to the US to a new wave of brands and marketers looking to use the social network in Europe and beyond. Over 200,000 advertisers now use Instagram to connect with consumers, and […]
Ad tech firm The Trade Desk has partnered with Spotify, Triton Digital and AdsWizz in order to bring fully programmatic digital audio inventory to its customer base. With more consumers than ever before accessing streaming audio via their mobile device, digital audio is a growing channel for advertisers, and programmatic buying can give marketers access […]
Only the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 tablet has a screen worthy of high quality entertainment. So if you’re watching entertainment on another device, those who create content (directors, actors etc) will be upset that you’re watching all their hard work on an inferior screen. Leo Burnett Sydney’s mobile spot had the actor from Game of […]
SpringHill Suites by Marriott capitalized on the popularity surrounding mobile video by leveraging a programmatic interscroller format to offer users an immersive tour of a room, resulting in nearly three times higher ad engagement than the benchmark for hospitality brands. The subsidiary of Marriott International teamed up with video advertising and digital display platform Celtra, […]
One of the world’s biggest companies has decided that targeted ads on Facebook really aren’t so targeted. Procter & Gamble is moving away from targeted ads on the social media giant, saying that hyper targeting on Facebook did not prove as effective as the company thought it would be. P&G is the biggest ad spender […]