According to 62% of marketers surveyed by the Chief Marketing Officer Council, reports about false and faulty metrics have caused them to pull back on spend. While 38% have started to question advertising rates, 24% have already reduced spend with Facebook and Google. In fact, negative headlines about Facebook and Google has had a knock-on […]
Google’s YouTube service is introducing new ad products targeted at people watching the service on television sets, in a bid to capture a larger share of traditional TV ad budgets and capitalize on rising interest in watching internet video on a TV screen. YouTube had previously placed its bets on a mobile future. But while […]
The vast majority of 18-34-year-olds in the United States and China are moving away from cash, according to a new report from The Innovation Group at J. Walter Thompson Intelligence. The Future of Money report sheds light on the disruptive global changes ahead in payments, currency and banking. Advances in these fields led by Chinese […]
Snapchat has introduced a range of new lenses that give users the opportunity to play augmented reality (AR) games with their friends on the app. With Snappables, Snapchatters use touch, motion, and facial expressions to take part in the interactive games. Some of the games give users the chance to challenge their friends and […]
Manchester United‘s official ride partner Uber organised a 360 Old Trafford Destination United experience in India as part of their sponsorship activation. Uber created an immersive 360 experience pod with the aim to give the fans an essence of the Theatre of Dreams. Other Old Trafford experiences like a dedicated fan area with players’ tunnel, […]
Israel has a relatively small population of almost 9 million people and a saturated telecom market with over five mobile operators and a number of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). Despite this challenge, 018 Xfone launched a new mobile operator under the brand ‘We4G’ which entered the mobile market in April 2018 and has network […]
Instagram and blogs are seeing greater partnership activity between social influencers and marketers this year, according to a study released by influencer marketing platform Activate. Eighty-eight percent of influencers and 92% of marketers said they plan to use the image-sharing platform for more campaigns than last year. Meanwhile, 89% of influencers and 86% of marketers […]
Facebook’s Messenger for Kids has courted its share of controversy in the short time it’s been on the scene. In an effort to clean up the app’s reputation, Facebook is adding a feature that parents have been asking for: making it inaccessible during certain timeframes. Specifically, during dinner, when they should be doing homework or […]
Drinks giant Diageo is bearing its social responsibility with the release of an immersive virtual reality experience that aims to forewarn participants of the dangers of binge drinking. ‘Decisions: Party’s Over’ takes the form of a first-person interactive story. The cinematic experience features content created by Jaunt and is aimed at the estimated 7.8 […]
In the first quarter of 2018, Amazon‘s sales of advertising services and other service offerings leapt 132% to $2bn (£1.4bn) year-on-year. This is an increase of 17% from the last quarter of 2017, which is typically the strongest quarter for retail advertising due to the holiday season. “The fact that our data suggests advertisers bucked […]