Domino’s is making ordering pizza easy as pie, with an app which automatically orders your favourite meal without needing to click. On opening the app, which launched on April 6, users are presented with a ten second timer. Unless you cancel the timer, your pizza will immediately be on its way. This is one of […]
Pinterest’s Promoted Pins ad format has landed in the UK, with brands like John Lewis, Made.com, B&Q and Tesco announced as early launch partners. The visual bookmarking tool, which allows users to curate and share images and ideas via an online scrapbook of ‘Pins’, made the announcement on April 6. Promoted Pins, which launched in […]
People do stupid things when they’re hungry. With the average person spending 4.7 hours a day on their smartphone, most/a lot of those stupid things now happen on those devices. To take advantage of this Snickers and Colenso BBDO built three of the dumbest apps the world has ever seen. Apps that no one in […]
Digital restaurant pre booking service Bookatable has revealed a significant boost in sales to its restaurants that trialled the company’s exclusive partnership with EasyPreOrders ahead of a wider rollout of the system scheduled for later in 2016. The trial, which took place during November and December 2015, one of the busiest periods of the year for the […]
Australian Tinder users have been ‘swiping right’ to a series of personified STIs as part of a campaign by condom brand Hero. From ‘Johnorrhoea’ to ‘Sydphilis’ and ‘Herpeia’, a series of 10 fake profiles named after the diseases have been appearing as potential date options for singles on the platform in a bid to highlight the unpleasant side-effects […]
In February Jeep chose to air its minute-long Super Bowl spot “Portraits” vertically, partly because the creative fit the size of a mobile phone. Now, the brand is permanently setting up shop on vertical-oriented Snapchat. Recently, Jeep officially opened a Snapchat account, posting user-generated photos of cars. Each day, users have been voting for their favourite photo […]
Twitter announced that it has rolled out First View to the UK and Europe, an ad offering that lets video promotions sit in prime positions on the feed, with Universal announced as the first brand to test the product. First View will work with a Promoted Trend to provide advertisers with premium ad placements for […]
Domino’s Pizza is looking to game Instagram — literally. The pizza delivery chain has brought its delivery vehicle, the DXP, to Instagram via a click-through game called “DXP Adventures.” The campaign was designed to make the DXP a household name. When players tap the tag “start_the_adventure” in the Domino’s promoted Instagram post, they will be […]
TubeMogul has partnered with Facebook to sell video ads on the social network’s news feed, as well as on Instagram, across desktop and mobile. This makes it one of the first video platforms to be awarded the Facebook Marketing Partner badge, following a closed beta during which brands including Expedia, Lenovo and Kraft ran over […]
43 per cent of US adults with mobile phones and bank accounts now make use of mobile banking, according to new figures from the US Federal Reserve released March 31. That figure, based on data from November 2015, is a four per cent increase year-on-year, and is driven by increasing smartphone adoption and the convenience of […]