Snapchat is not a youth engagement strategy

Snapchat is not a youth engagement strategy

A lot has been said about mobile campaigns in the past 2 years, we know that marketers today need to create emotional connections with their customers to drive engagement across multiple touch-points. Using Snapchat is not really doing a mobile campaign and does not constitute a teen engagement strategy. With the popularity of Snapchat, it’s […]

Xaxis acquires e-commerce specialist Triad Retail Media in the US

Xaxis acquires e-commerce specialist Triad Retail Media in the US

WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company Xaxis, the world’s largest global programmatic media and technology platform, has agreed to acquire, subject to regulatory approval, Triad Retail Media, a leading digital retail media specialist in the US. Triad’s gross revenues were over US$500 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 with net revenues of […]

Kolab delivers comprehensive digital strategy for Paintworks

Kolab delivers comprehensive digital strategy for Paintworks

Background: Paintworks is a 12 acre (522,720sqft) mixed-use development in Bristol. Paintworks is expanding: the current work will provide around 6,700 square metres of new employment and commercial floor space, 11 live/work units and 210 houses and apartments. This work is being undertaken for housebuilding company Crest Nicholson in association with Verve. A further phase will […]

Telcos plan to muscle in on adland

Telcos plan to muscle in on adland

If the future of advertising is mobile-led, then O2-owner Telefonica’s measured attempt to control the delivery of ads across its network spotlights the power it could wield in a market dominated by Facebook and Google. There aren’t many mobile operators that don’t harbor a similar ambition, though like the Spain-based provider – the bulk of […]

With consumers glued to their smartphones, mobile ad budgets are soaring

With consumers glued to their smartphones, mobile ad budgets are soaring

Reading this on your smartphone? Company advertising departments will be pleasantly unsurprised. Consumers’ obsession with their smartphones meant that firms increased their mobile advertising budgets by 56 per cent year-on-year to £1.7bn in the first half of 2016. This means that 36p in every £1 spent on internet advertising now goes on phones, up from […]

Cheil Worldwide creates ‘Beat the Street’ Samsung VR game to improve road safety for children

Cheil Worldwide creates ‘Beat the Street’ Samsung VR game to improve road safety for children

In the Netherlands, thousands of young children cycle to school and back every day. Every year, a large number of those children are involved in road accidents, some of them fatal. This is mainly due to the children’s lack of experience with road traffic. To address this problem, in collaboration with Veilig Verkeer Nederland (the […]

Kiosked Co-Founder Antti Pasila Named Chief Executive Officer

Kiosked Co-Founder Antti Pasila Named Chief Executive Officer

Antti Pasila has been named Chief Executive Officer of Kiosked, the global programmatic advertising platform, in a natural evolution from his former role as Chief Strategy Officer. Pasila co-founded the company in 2010 with Micke Paqvalen, who previously served as CEO and has now been appointed Chairman of the Board. While Kiosked has served both […]