A new report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight says that the ten leading global mobile operator groups have a combined market share of 76 percent in cellular IoT. The top players reported a combined active base of 407 million cellular IoT connections at the end of H1-2017. China Mobile was number one with […]
The cost of mobile data in European countries varies substantially, with Belgium and the UK offering the least data per Euro, while Romania offers the most, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Consumers may not expect €10 to buy a lot of mobile data in northern and western European nations, but the […]
Two consecutive increases in ad viewability over the past two quarters have seen the well watched surge to an 18-month high, driven by the demand on publishers from agency groups to place a higher percentage of ad surface areas in view. The findings are contained in the latest quarterly update from ad verification specialists Meetrics which found that in […]
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality, now commonly known as XR, initially got the world – and big investors – excited with its seemingly limitless applications for film, gaming, and adult entertainment. However, in 2017 the land lies quite differently, as the now maturing technology is increasingly being applied to the more fundamental aspects […]
Adidas has created a game exclusively for Snapchat, designed to run on the platform as an ad between Stories. The brand’s first game on the media platform will land on September 16 in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. It was designed to engage football fans with a compelling gamified ad that allows them […]
Chinese ride-hailing company DiDi Chuxing is investing an undisclosed amount in Estonian online taxi firm Taxify to help it expand in Europe and Africa, where it has gained share in some cities against US player Uber. DiDi Chuxing will invest in and collaborate with Taxify to support the latter’s further expansion across its regional markets, […]
Food to Home is a ground-breaking restaurant service in many ways: it is the first mobile restaurant service that you can use throughout Europe and in most local languages. The service also pays its users to activate restaurants. But what is it actually about? How can I quickly find a good restaurant is a familiar […]
Snapchat’s Spectacles have arrived in Europe for the first time with Snapbots, vending machines which contain the glasses, landing in five major European locations. The vending machines have popped up under the London Eye, on a boat in front of the Eiffel Tower, by the canals in Venice, on the beach in Barcelona, and on […]
Snapchat will be partnering with BT Sport for an exclusive ‘Our Story’ coverage of the UEFA Champions League Final. This means Snapchat’s ‘Our Story’ coverage will include clips and match footage from BT Sport to complement the Snaps submitted from fans in the stadium, the teams and those watching at home. BT’s commercial partnership with […]
InMobi, a global mobile advertising and discovery platform, launched a suite of advanced mobile video ad solutions in Europe. The platform includes innovative video ad formats such as vertical videos, interactive rich-media videos, 360 degree videos, opt-in videos, full-screen, in-feed and in-stream videos. Having invested in video technology for more than four years, InMobi’s new […]