Lyft recently introduced us to its opt-in automatic charity donation feature. Now, it has unveiled its first partner as the feature gets set to kick off on 1 May. To honour Military Appreciation Month, Lyft’s first ‘Round Up & Donate’ partner comes in the form of the United Services Organisation (USO) – a non-profit which […]
Ribena has partnered with J. Walter Thompson London, Brass and Diverse to create an interactive app called ‘Doodle Your World’, allowing users to ‘doodle’ on their surroundings, by using Ribenary characters that come to life on their screens. The concept behind the new Ribena ‘Doodle Your World’ app has been developed from the overarching brand […]
Arsenal Football Club has become the first Premier League club to launch an Amazon Alexa Skill that will allow fans to live stream matches. Skills are Alexa’s in-built capabilities that enable users to interact with devices, like Amazon Echo and Echo Dot, using voice. In this case, the Arsenal Skill for Alexa will allow fans […]
Adyoulike, the leading in-feed native ad platform announces a new strategic partnership with Sizmek, the open ad management company for multiscreen ad experiences. The integration will enable advertisers and agencies to deliver personalised native advertising campaigns across the StrikeAd by Sizmek platform, the mobile-first programmatic media solution for global brands and trading desks. Adyoulike’s native […]
Launched on April 20, the iconic Deutsche Telekom colour magenta has been harnessed to create a new medium for entertainment. Created by Saatchi & Saatchi London and Deutsche Telekom, The Lenz App changes the way content can be viewed, bringing about a new way to consume entertainment and enabling anything magenta to become a viewable […]
Singaporeans aged 16 to 34 prefer YouTube to TV according to a study by Google Singapore and Kantar TNS, with older demographics visiting YouTube at least once a month. The study surveyed 1,035 Singaporeans aged 16 to 60, and follows the brand safety crisis furore around Google. Overall, 45% of Singaporean internet users prefer YouTube […]
Netflix added 1.42m streaming subscribers in the US and 3.53m elsewhere in the first quarter of 2017, slightly shy of the 1.5m (US) and 3.7m (rest of the world) it had previously told analysts it expected to add. Even so, the company is on track to reach 100m subscribers by the end of Q2. It […]
Despite the negative press around programmatic advertising following the YouTube ad controversy, programmatic isn’t going anywhere. In its latest forecast, eMarketer estimates nearly four of every five US digital display dollars will transact programmatically in 2017, totaling $32.56 billion. By the end of the forecast period, that share will rise to 84.0%, leaving little doubt […]
Digital ad spend in the UK increased by 17% in 2016 to reach £10.3bn – the fastest growth rate in the industry in nine years. The reason attributed to this? Mobile. As we become a constantly connected society, mobile is becoming consumers’ default and often primary, gateway to the internet. According to the Internet Advertising […]
Timberland has launched a new UK campaign with xAd to identify a new audience of urban adventurers and entice them into their brick-and-mortar stores. xAd worked with media buying agencies Vizeum and Amplifi to develop and deliver engaging content to 18-34 year olds living in the city, inspiring them to seek out their own ‘Urban […]