Taptica shares soar on rising mobile advertising spend

Taptica shares soar on rising mobile advertising spend

                                Mobile advertising has grown rapidly around the world (Source: Getty) Mobile ad firm Taptica shares have rocketed after the firm posted what it called a “record” year. Shares in the company closed up 19 per cent yesterday as revenue […]

Data-led tech company Ve Interactive acquires video advertising company Optomaton for €5.13M

Data-led tech company Ve Interactive acquires video advertising company Optomaton for €5.13M

Ve Interactive, the leading data-driven technology company specializing in conversion enhancing technology and digital advertising, has acquired video advertising company Optomaton  for the sum of €5.13M, in a deal comprised of cash and shares. Optomaton is a digital advertising technology and services company working across all aspects of programmatic media buying with a particular focus on […]

comScore to develop online measurement currency in Indonesia

comScore to develop online measurement currency in Indonesia

 comScore has been selected as the online audience measurement partner in Indonesia for two years from 2016 to 2018. The appointment, supported by the Indonesian Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf), is by five associations that collaborated to standardise online audience measurement in Indonesia and accelerate digital advertising growth in the country. The associations are the Association […]

GroupM + Twitter builds viewability standards; launches Moat measured Twitter campaigns

GroupM + Twitter builds viewability standards; launches Moat measured Twitter campaigns

GroupM has today strengthened its position in market as the leader in increasing viewability standards by running Australia’s 1st Moat measured Twitter campaign. It has joined with Twitter to roll out Moat viewabilty beta program across its client portfolio. Committed to increasing the confidence into digital advertising and combating such issues as brand safety, ad […]

ClickBid Implements Braintree Payment’s Strongest Security to Provide PCI Compliant Mobile Bidding

ClickBid Implements Braintree Payment’s Strongest Security to Provide PCI Compliant Mobile Bidding

ClickBid, a leading provider in mobile bidding technology, has converted all of its credit card functionality to use Braintree hosted fields. Through it’s six year partnership with Braintree Payments (a PayPal company) ClickBid is able to offer end-to-end security of card data. Hosted fields provide a way to present payment forms directly from a PCI […]

WhatsApp to share more user data with parent company Facebook

WhatsApp to share more user data with parent company Facebook

Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp will begin to share data including users’ phone number with its parent company, as part of plans to allow businesses to send messages to users. It will be the first time the messaging service has connected users’ accounts to the social network to share data. Starting from today, the billion-plus users will be […]

Pubs and restaurants pay £100 a day to be Pokemon Go destinations in bid to lure gamers through their doors

Pubs and restaurants pay £100 a day to be Pokemon Go destinations in bid to lure gamers through their doors

Pubs and restaurants across the UK are paying to become Pokemon Go destinations in a bid to lure gamers through their doors. Business forking out £100 a day for virtual creatures to be found on their premises are reaping the rewards of the trade dubbed ‘Pokémonomics’. London burger restaurant Maxwell‘s said its revenues have risen […]

UK leads Europe for social engagement

UK leads Europe for social engagement

The UK leads the way in driving website traffic through social engagement, averaging 4.6% compared to other European countries, according to new research. The findings, from Adobe’s Europe Best of the Best 2015 Report, provides insight into how brands should use the web and social media to enhance customer experience. The latest report, based on […]

Twitter Offers Audience API To All Brands

Twitter Offers Audience API To All Brands

Giving brands better insights into their customers, Twitter on July 13, announced the broad release of its Audience API. Between the API’s debut last fall and now, the top request from brands has been the ability to better define and describe audiences of interest, along with visibility into the demographic characteristics of these audiences. And Twitter […]