Preoday launches Hotline to integrate phone calls into digital ordering

Preoday launches Hotline to integrate phone calls into digital ordering

Preoday, the global provider of branded digital ordering services, has launched its new Hotline functionality to enhance its mobile and online ordering platform. Hotline is an additional feature of the digital ordering platform. It enables restaurants and cafes to take orders over the phone and enter them into the same system as those taken through […]

WARC: 24% of brands and agencies surveyed expect voice interfaces to be important to their business

WARC: 24% of brands and agencies surveyed expect voice interfaces to be important to their business

Voice-enabled technology, from smart speakers to virtual assistants, is opening an entirely new interface through which brands and consumers will engage and communicate in 2018, according to WARC, the global marketing intelligence service, following a survey with more than 600 marketing and advertising professionals around the world for its Toolkit 2018 report. Voice is swiftly […]

Cross-industry standards bodies TAG and JICWEBS partner to clean up digital advertising

Cross-industry standards bodies TAG and JICWEBS partner to clean up digital advertising

The two leading cross-industry standards bodies in the UK and US today announced they are aligning many of their key initiatives to create a consistent approach to tackling the big issues facing digital advertising and to increase industry adoption. The Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards (JICWEBS) will continue to drive brand safety efforts in […]

Amazon releases its first commercial for the Echo Spot

Amazon releases its first commercial for the Echo Spot

Amazon has released an ad for the Echo Spot on YouTube. The ad called “Be Together More” is only a minute long, and it’s full of feels. The commercial tells a heartfelt story about a grandma who is left home alone with her cat after a visit from her family. She’s gifted an Amazon Echo […]

ALTBalaji to launch its original content on Reliance Jio’s digital platforms in India

ALTBalaji to launch its original content on Reliance Jio’s digital platforms in India

A week after renewing its partnership with Eros International, Reliance Jio, the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator has now joined hands with ALTBalaji, the over-the-top (OTT) content provider, to offer the latter’s content on Jio Cinema and Jio TV – a move aimed at countering Bharti Airtel, which has been making efforts to bolster its content play […]

BuzzFeed to reach audiences in China through licensing deal with Bytedance

BuzzFeed to reach audiences in China through licensing deal with Bytedance

BuzzFeed has signed a licensing deal with China’s Bytedance Technology Co, which will help the American publisher circumvent the country’s firewall and enter the Chinese market. The Chinese publisher owns Toutiao, a news and videos aggregator platform, and Xigua, which focuses on short video clips. It currently has about 200 million daily active users around […]

Google gives users more control over online ads

Google gives users more control over online ads

You can’t escape ads online because they’re often the primary source of revenue for publishers and content creators. Google runs one of the largest ad businesses online and it routinely improves the controls that users have over their online ad experience, to ensure that a balance is struck between ads and user experience. Google has […]