Blis’ new privacy-first product suite will enable clients to deliver key business outcomes. By combining rich location insight with other real-world and online data, Blis will deliver new way of targeting that changes the way it plans and buys media.
Blis to empower world’s largest brands and agencies to target customers at scale in the post-cookie world
inMarket, the leader in digital advertising for the physical world, announced plans to acquire Thinknear, a premier provider of location-based services, from Telenav. The acquisition will have Thinknear’s team and intellectual property join inMarket in exchange for Telenav receiving a minority equity interest in the fast-growing company. Following inMarket’s 10 years of bootstrapped expansion and […]
Foursquare, the social media platform of yesteryear turned enterprise tech company, announced a $150 million funding infusion on May 30 as well as its first acquisition. Placed, the Snap Inc.-owned ad-tracking attribution platform, was acquired for an undisclosed amount in a deal that also makes Placed founder and CEO David Shim Foursquare’s president. “This is […]
A record 24 terabytes of data was transferred within the stadium during Super Bowl LIII – an increase of 47 percent from 2018’s NFL championship game and 7x more than Super Bowl XLVIII (in 2014), when Extreme began tracking the data for the NFL’s biggest game. The record-breaking increase in fan engagement was analysed by Extreme […]
Telenav, a leading provider of connected car and location-based services, and Sionic Mobile, a leading provider of cloud-based connected-commerce and loyalty currency gateway services, have entered into a strategic alliance agreement to bring localised in-car digital commerce and offers to drivers. Telenav’s location-based services and mobile-advertising capabilities coupled with Sionic Mobile’s in-vehicle payment and order-ahead […]
The Finnish game developer Next Games and AMC today launched the unique and highly-anticipated, location-based, augmented reality mobile game The Walking Dead: Our World, allowing players to fight walkers wherever and whenever they want: on the streets, in the park, and even on their sofa. The game is available to download from the Apple App […]
Almost two-thirds of marketers are making use of location data for tageting ads and promotions, and nearly half for location-based offers, according to new data from location firm Factual. With mobile overtaking desktop, a wealth of location data is now available to marketers. US companies alone spent $17.1bn (£12.75bn) on location-targets mobile advertising in 2017, […]
Subscription-based movie ticketing service MoviePass tracks your every move and it’s not afraid to admit that – though it claims to have no intentions of selling this data on. Speaking during a presentation at the Entertainment Finance Forum in Hollywood, California, the app’s CEO Mitch Lowe told the audience that “we know all about you”, […]
Verve, the leading location-based mobile platform, has set its sights on capturing a significant slice of the UK’s £2.6bn mobile programmatic advertising market, with the expansion of its Premium Programmatic Mobile solution through Rubicon Project’s leading Orders platform, completing its international end-to-end product suite. Verve’s programmatic solution is now available to UK and international advertisers, […]
A Mobile Campaign for Johnnie Walker (Diageo Colombia) by Adsmovil and OMD The huge challenge was to find the best way to engage with the Target and deliver a relevant message at the same time. All of this whilst the target was enjoying the Party they were invited to purchase Johnnie Walker Red. For this, […]