When James Hilton left his job as marketing director of Weight Watchers in 2006 to start a mobile advertising business, Inside Out Mobile, he was told by his colleagues he was crazy. Four years later his once small company was bought by M&C Saatchi to become M&C Saatchi Mobile, and today plays in an industry […]
InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile advertising and discovery platform, today announced a partnership with Moat to offer brand advertisers mobile video measurement and currency through both InMobi Exchange and the InMobi network. The partnership will enable advertisers to measure, among other metrics, “human and viewable” and “human, viewable, and audible” (sound, sight and motion) […]
InMobi, a global mobile advertising and discovery platform, launched an advanced suite of video formats across countries in Asia Pacific, to help brands capitalize on the opportunity offered by mobile video advertising. The suite of video ad formats will be available across countries including Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. The […]
The Swedish pharmacy chain ‘Apotek Hjärtat’ has launched a VR app for pain relief. ‘Happy Place’ distracts the brain from focusing on temporary pain through a virtual world. The app is available for free download in Oculus Store and available to try in selected Apotek Hjärtat pharmacies. Years of research and several independent studies show […]
Tinder has launched ‘Swipe the Vote’, an in-app experience created in partnership with non-profit organisation Rock the Vote, intended to activate voters for the impending US election. The dating app will present users with a simple poll, created using polling platform Wedgies, which asks them to swipe left or right on seven key issues, and to pick the candidate they intend to vote […]
UK retail giant Tesco is testing a contactless system that will make the paper receipt a thing of the past, instead sending a digital record of your purchases to your smartphone as part of the payment process. According to the Daily Mail, the system is being trialled at self-service tills in two stores in Harlow, […]
Even as mobile dominates online display budgets, this rapid growth could be superfluous if advertisers aren’t prepared to properly address the effectiveness of mobile ads and their role in brands’s marketing mix modelling, warn experts. Sharper measurement is often talked about but rarely defined for a mobile market which many believe is falling behind the […]
AT&T has worked 140 years to perfect phone service, while Time Warner Inc. has spent decades churning out popular magazines, television shows and movies for the big screen. But the two companies, which both are laboring to hold onto customers, confront a similar challenge: how to deliver content to younger consumers who are turning away […]
Google, which is set to report Q3 earnings this week, now makes more ad dollars from mobile than from the desktop globally, according to eMarketer’s latest estimates of ad revenues at major publishers. But in its home market of the US, that revenue flip is still in the (very near) future. The shift in share […]
China is, by a sizable margin, the world’s fastest growing mobile advertising market. The east Asian giant saw mobile ad spend rise 931% in Q2 2016 over 2015, according to data from mobile ad platform Smaato. This compares to an overall rise in mobile ad spending increasing 103% globally. Other notable jumps were seen in […]