Mindshare, the global media agency of WPP, recently announced that it is placing its FAST (Future Adaptive Specialist Team) integrated performance unit at the heart of its business as part of an ongoing transformation programme evolving the agency into an Adaptive Marketing organisation, to help clients do the same. We had a chance to sit […]
Serviceplan Group is the largest and most diversified owner-managed and partner-managed agency group in Europe. We spoke to their Managing Creative Director, Till Hohmann, who gave us an insight into the agency’s future plans, his thoughts on the future of the Industry and his experience in judging the Direct Marketing category at Cannes in 2017: Q) What was […]
In-feed native advertising platform Adyoulike announced the launch of its Native Creative 2.0 formats, bringing advertisers and publishers new options for visually-dynamic, interactive ad units that better engage and activate audiences. The new units, which seamlessly integrate in-feed on publisher properties, are available for native mobile and native video advertising as well as for web-based native. […]
Celtra, the creative management platform for digital advertising, today announced a $15 million investment led by Unilever Ventures and WPP. Unilever and WPP are partnering to use Celtra’s market-leading creative technology across Unilever’s global marketing organization and its ecosystem of service providers, technology vendors and media suppliers. Celtra aims to help advertisers maximize their creative potential […]
A suite of new [free] auditing software has been released to improve transparency of paid search performance. The suite of tools created by biddible also aim to efficiently report on the effectiveness of Google AdWords spend, in under 60 seconds. The free software [biddable tools] will become the first free suite designed to simplify, identify […]
LoopMe is the largest mobile video platform, supporting all video and full-screen formats and reaching over 2 billion devices worldwide. We had a chance to catch up with their CEO, Stephen Upstone during the Cannes Lions Festival, who revealed to us the company’s foray into Artificial Intelligence and discussed the impact the technology will have on the […]
180LA won a Gold Lion in Cyber and a Bronze in Mobile for its interactive mobile film, “Visit Britain” for Expedia and VisitBritain at the 64th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The agency has been honoured with seven Cannes Lion awards, including one Grand Prix, since the opening of the festival. The interactive film is […]
Surveying 3,600 mobile users from 18 countries spanning North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the Internet Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) ‘Always On – A Global Perspective of Mobile Consumer Experience’ study reveals how mobile advertising is having an adverse effect on many people’s day-to-day experiences on their mobile phones. The research illustrates that consumer […]
Tyre manufacturer Apollo Tyres has released an AR app to celebrate its partnership with Premier League football club Manchester United and their #EarnTheJersey digital campaign. The Earn The Jersey app enables users to scan an Apollo Tyres logo to enter an interactive, where players swipe a ball toward the jersey of a member of the […]
AKQA announced the winners of Future Lions, the official student awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Future Lions attracted more than 2,100 students from 64 countries, making it the most successful year to date. The five winning ideas and teams are: Ask the Candidates for CNN Team: Yeon Sang Yoon and Jin Sug […]