Chiquita Teams Up with Snapchat Ahead of World Banana Day

Chiquita Teams Up with Snapchat Ahead of World Banana Day

Chiquita Brands International, the world’s leading banana company, announced a new partnership with Snapchat, the global multimedia messaging app, which will allow consumers to have fun with Chiquita in honour of World Banana Day on April 17th. Through the end of May SnapCodes will appear on 200 million Chiquita Blue Stickers, allowing fans of the […]

Warner Bros. launch first ever sponsored voice-activated Snapchat Lens for Shazam!

Warner Bros. launch first ever sponsored voice-activated Snapchat Lens for Shazam!

Shazam! has partnered with Snapchat to launch the first sponsored, voice-activated Snapchat Lens, meaning anyone can transform themselves into a superhero! Snapchatters simply have scan the Snapcode, say “Ok, Shazam!”, and with a flash of lightening their inner superhero will appear on the screen. The Snapcode is dotted around London on posters and billboards, making it super […]

Spotify personalising some editorial playlists based on users’ tastes

Spotify personalising some editorial playlists based on users’ tastes

Spotify will now use algorithms to partially “personalise” some of its editorial playlists based on listeners’ tastes. As a result, no two of the personalised editorial playlists will be the same, marking a major change in the way users discover music. The move, announced on Spotify’s website, is intended to both improve the listening experience for […]

Facebook launches tools to boost election engagement in India

Facebook launches tools to boost election engagement in India

Social-networking site Facebook launched two new India-specific tools — “Candidate Connect” and “Share You Voted” — to boost civic engagement on its platform during the general elections that commence in April. While “Candidate Connect” will help people learn more about candidates, the “Share You Voted” will provide people with polling information and enable them to […]

WeChat: Harnessing the power of China’s ‘super app’

WeChat: Harnessing the power of China’s ‘super app’

China currently has a population of 1.37 billion people, who spent 91.8% of all time spent online on social media. This significant number is largely due to a social networking app in China, sometimes called ‘the app of everything’ – WeChat. Over the last few years, WeChat has completely transformed how people communicate, find information, […]

Skoda develops car boot parcel delivery system

Skoda develops car boot parcel delivery system

Skoda is working on a new project that will enable couriers to deliver parcels to your car boot. It will enable consumers to provide their vehicle’s location and number plate, instead of an address, when ordering goods. The technology required for remote access to the car is currently being tested in the pilot scheme. Jarmila […]

Burger King App Lets Users ‘Burn’ Rival Fast Food Ads in Exchange for Free Whopper

Burger King App Lets Users ‘Burn’ Rival Fast Food Ads in Exchange for Free Whopper

Burger King has no problem zinging and prodding its rival fast food restaurants. Now, the chain is encouraging fans to ‘burn’ those rivals thanks to a new app feature that sees billboards engulfed in flames. With the ‘Burn That Ad’ campaign, anyone who launches the Burger King app in Brazil and points their smartphone at its […]

Tinder sort of scraps the Desirability Scores

Tinder sort of scraps the Desirability Scores

Popular dating app Tinder has provided some insight into how its algorithm decides which potential matches it surfaces to users – and it’s no longer an ‘Elo score’ based on desirability, though it doesn’t sound too dissimilar. The Match Group-owned platform doesn’t hide the fact that it used to rank people based on how desirable […]

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