WhatsGerman, a language course based on the already existing digital platform, WhatsApp, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. WhatsGerman is a language course that is delivered through the messaging platform WhatsApp, and is directed towards the large number of refugees that entered Germany in 2015. Germany […]
Augmented reality app Blippar believes its efforts to get people to use it for visual search, rather than searching through Google, should hit critical mass by early 2017 when it will have the ubiquity to appeal to more advertisers. It’s stopped short of saying how many users that equates to, though the app is already […]
At the Cannes Lions festival, Yahoo announced “Yahoo Tiles,” a new mobile ad format for the “post-tap world.” It offers 360-degree imagery and video on the Yahoo Gemini and BrightRoll ad platforms. Here’s the company’s description: Yahoo Tiles enables brands to tell visually compelling and immersive stories on mobile devices in a post-tap environment. When […]
Apple has marked the kick-off of the Euro 2016 championship with a spot showing the beauty of football, as part of its ongoing “Shot on iPhone” campaign. The ad is soundtracked by Little Sims’ Wings, and showcases a montage of football-related shots by iPhone users. The spot is part of Apple’s long-running “Shot on iPhone” […]