DMEXCO: Snapchat criticises silent video ads, referring to them as ‘moving banners’

DMEXCO: Snapchat criticises silent video ads, referring to them as ‘moving banners’

Snapchat’s chief strategy officer Imran Khan has taken a swipe at rival publishers that play video ads without sound. Speaking at Dmexco in Germany today (14 October), he said that Snapchat’s “passion about sound” is what makes it stand out. He claimed two-thirds of the ads on its site are played with sound and that if advertisers […]

Snapchat Poised To Rake In $1 Billion In Annual Revenue By 2017, Report Forecasts

Snapchat Poised To Rake In $1 Billion In Annual Revenue By 2017, Report Forecasts

CREDIT: Getty Images Snapchat’s messages may disappear, but the company’s advertising dollars are starting to pile up. The Los Angeles startup is nearly on pace to cross $1 billion in annual revenue by the end of next year, according to a forecast released Monday. By selling video ads, sponsored geo-filters and sponsored augmented-reality lenses, Snapchat […]

Facebook Wants Its Advertisers To Be Better on Mobile

Facebook Wants Its Advertisers To Be Better on Mobile

FACEBOOK IS FORCING advertisers to improve their websites. This is a shameless way for Facebook to serve itself—and thank goodness it’s happening. As Facebook announced this week, if an advertiser’s website is slow, its ads won’t show up as frequently on the world’s most popular social network. And soon, its ads won’t even show up […]

Mindshare’s POV on Facebook’s new Lifestage app

Mindshare’s POV on Facebook’s new Lifestage app

Background: Facebook recently launched a new app called Lifestage. Created by Michael Saymen a 19 year old Product Manager, Lifestage is a social network aimed at video loving teens, ultimately reinventing what Facebook would look like if it was built around the currency of today’s digital world of snackable video. Lifestage mimics the early days […]

How chatbots will help mobile marketers

How chatbots will help mobile marketers

Since 2014, there have been more mobile devices in the world than desktop computers, and people spend more time browsing the internet on their smartphones than on their desktops. So companies simply cannot ignore mobile as a channel to reach their consumers. Today, marketing departments focus a meaningful part of their time and budget on […]

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 […]

SS+K’s New BFF Trump Bot for Facebook Messenger Speaks in Donald’s Own Words

SS+K’s New BFF Trump Bot for Facebook Messenger Speaks in Donald’s Own Words

The app, developed by messaging bot platform Dexter, aims to inform young voters of Trump’s divisive opinions Donald Trump’s positions change so often that the simple task of asking, “Wait, did he really say that?” can be exhausting. Agency SS+K and messaging bot platform Dexter have brought his most hurtful, damaging, and hate-filled messages into […]

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