Brandwatch, the world-leading social intelligence company, has acquired London-based SaaS research platform Qriously to fuse the best of modern market research with its heritage in social intelligence. While legacy social listening players are competing with similar features from the same social media data sources, Brandwatch is differentiating itself by adding Qriously’s real-time survey functionality, enabling […]
AdColony, the mobile performance marketplace, announced that media industry veteran Matt Barash has rejoined AdColony as Head of Strategy and Business Development, along with the promotion of Camila Franklin to VP of Programmatic and Tom Simpson to VP of Brand & Exchange, APAC. These announcements coincide with AdColony combining its programmatic private marketplace and open […]
Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba has acquired Israel augmented reality (AR) company InfinityAR. Financial details about the acquisition were not disclosed but market sources estimate that Alibaba, which already holds a major stake in the startup, paid over $10 million. InfinityAR was founded in 2012 by Moshe Hogeg and since 2014 has been managed by CEO […]
Manchester-based data capture specialist, WorkMobile, has experienced its strongest Q1 to date, thanks to a host of new client wins. The first two months of 2019 proved hugely successful for the business, with new client wins coming in from a range of sectors including building, design and technology. Scaffolding firm JFE Attridge Scaffolding, lifting solutions provider TAWI UK, […]
Following a competitive multi-agency pitch, GroupM’s media agency MediaCom has been awarded the media mandate for Mobile Premier League (MPL). MPL is the leader in the competitive mobile gaming space with several of India’s most loved mobile games featuring on the platform, and new games being added every week. As their full form AOR, MediaCom […]
Gismart, a leading independent developer and publisher of music-based apps and games, announced the launch of an investment programme for mobile app startups. The new investment programme is an integral part of the already established Gismart publishing division. In addition to developing and publishing its own titles, Gismart also plays the role of strategic partner […]
Adomik, the Paris-based platform that simplifies monetisation for publishers launched its UK operations and office in 2018 Q4, and recruited Ollie Chadwick as UK Country Manager. The company also announces the release of exclusive European and UK specific programmatic data for 2018. Adomik’s platform is built with and for publishers to address their main monetisation […]
Brandwatch, the world-leading, $100 million-revenue social intelligence company, has unveiled its latest Vizia innovation with an enterprise reporting product that fundamentally changes the approach to marketing reporting. Marketers spend countless hours and billions of dollars to ensure that they are equipped to track results and measure their work, but that vital information is too often […]
Facebook’s Q4 earnings call revealed that Instagram Stories has now reached a daily user count of 500 million. That figure stood at 100 million in October 2016 and 400 million as recently as June. This means that approximately half of the a billion Instagram users are now checking out Instagram Stories daily. They also reported […]
Video advertising firm Taptica International Ltd announced it has agreed a £135 million takeover of peer RhythmOne PLC in an all-share merger deal to create a combined company worth about £300 million. Taptica also proposed to buy back shares and appointed a new permanent boss. Recently, Taptica and RhythmOne announced they were considering an all-share […]