The 2nd Lovely Mobile Awards are now open for entries. The Awards, which were introduced by us last year during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, honour work done in the Mobile Marketing, Internet of Things (IoT), Digital, New Technology and Connected Devices fields. Who Can Enter? It is open to brands, agencies and ALL parties […]
Mobile game developers are increasingly implementing “rewarded ads” that players can view while playing in exchange for in-game prizes, The Wall Street Journal reports. This comes amid a big upswing in advertising in games — 78% of the 50 highest-grossing gaming apps in the US featured ads in the first half of this year, compared with 45% in 2016. Candy Crush […]
Mobile engagement specialist Datami announced it has enabled more than 25 million consumers to engage with leading brands through the use of sponsored mobile data and data rewards. Datami’s extensive consumer reach, based on a unique network of partnerships with some of the world’s largest mobile operators, represents unmatched commercial scale within the sponsored data sector. Explosive adoption […]
Q1 was the busiest quarter for martech Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) deals on record. Private equity investment in adtech grows to 15% in Q2. Results International, specialist technology advisor on M&A and fundraising to the global marketing, technology and healthcare sectors, revealed figures for adtech and martech M&A for the first half of 2017. At 217 deals, the […]
Lingerie brand Triumph says it will focus its spend more towards digital channels as its target audience, which is getting younger, spend more time online. The decision to start looking at shifting budgets online came as Triumph realised its younger audience was spending the majority of its time online, despite still preferring to shop offline. Sheryl Wong, […]
LiveRamp, an Acxiom company and leading provider of omnichannel identity resolution, announced the availability of LiveRamp’s platform to publishers. This solution allows publishers to better monetise their audiences by supporting brands’ people-based marketing initiatives. In turn, marketers benefit from the ability to expand people-based targeting beyond Google and Facebook and provide consumers with a more consistent […]
Smaato, the leading global real-time advertising platform for mobile publishers and app developers, has announced the integration of a vast trove of mobile audience data into the Smaato Demand Platform (SDX) from adsquare, the neutral and transparent mobile data exchange. Through Smaato’s industry-first exchange-side integration with adsquare, Smaato’s 450+ mobile-first DSPs and demand partners connected to SDX can […]
Location intelligence company, Blis has been on a roll over the last year, with some innovative projects and movements in the digital marketing space. During the Cannes Lions Festival, we sat down with their President, Harry Dewhirst, who told us about what Blis have been up to this past year and where they plan to go […]
Google has launched Triangle, an Android app for managing mobile data usage, in a pilot in the Philippines. Triangle enables users to monitor their data usage and, for participating networks, check their remaining balance. Perhaps the biggest draw, though, is the ‘Data Saver’ feature for controlling unwanted background data. Users can block individual apps from […]
LoopMe is the largest mobile video platform, supporting all video and full-screen formats and reaching over 2 billion devices worldwide. We had a chance to catch up with their CEO, Stephen Upstone during the Cannes Lions Festival, who revealed to us the company’s foray into Artificial Intelligence and discussed the impact the technology will have on the […]