SMS Global: Four out of five smartphone users check their phones within 15-minutes of waking up

SMS Global: Four out of five smartphone users check their phones within 15-minutes of waking up

While the trend in homes is to increasingly spend more time talking to virtual assistant Alexa, a recent report suggests that we reach for our smartphones within 15 minutes of waking up and our phones will likely remain with us throughout the day long after we have said goodnight, Alexa. Various developments in mobile technology […]

Amplero’s New Capability Lets Marketers Influence Friends of Friends

Amplero’s New Capability Lets Marketers Influence Friends of Friends

Amplero, a digital intelligence platform which leverages machine learning and continuous optimisation, has introduced a way for marketers to influence friends of friends. Influencer Optimisation, a machine learning-based capability of Amplero’s Intelligence Platform, enables marketers to pinpoint their key customer influencers. It measures each influencer network by number, strength, intensity of connections, as well as […]

Toyota and Saatchi LA Use AI to Create Quirky New Activities for Rav4 Campaign

Toyota and Saatchi LA Use AI to Create Quirky New Activities for Rav4 Campaign

Toyota, along with creative agency Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles, launched the latest campaign for the Rav4 combining a creative programmatic strategy and artificial intelligence. The new campaign is digital and will live on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and interactive banner ads. As Rav4’s demographic is made up of some of the most adventurous explorers in […]

YuMe Turns Mobile Advertising on its Axis with New Vertical Video Format

YuMe Turns Mobile Advertising on its Axis with New Vertical Video Format

YuMe, a leader in brand video advertising software and audience data, announced the availability of an immersive mobile vertical video ad format for brands and advertisers. YuMe’s new customizable vertical video ad format enables video ads to fit more naturally within the mobile experience as full-screen video that is viewed in portrait mode. One of […]

New Study Finds Consumers Prefer Opting-In To Mobile Ads

New Study Finds Consumers Prefer Opting-In To Mobile Ads

Mobile has changed everything. Findings from a new Nielsen Media Labs study commissioned by Jun Group, a leading mobile video advertising platform, found that consumers prefer opt-in mobile advertising (aka “value exchange,” “incentivized advertising,” and “rewarded video”) over traditional digital ads like pre-roll and display by a near 2-1 margin (54 percent versus 29 percent). […]

Warc Toolkit 2017: Video is turning social platforms into broadcast media

Warc Toolkit 2017: Video is turning social platforms into broadcast media

Social video, which involves the dissemination of content in audio-visual format across social media platforms and applications, is experiencing massive growth as a content marketing format, and is expected to continue in 2017. Video is transforming social media marketing and turning social platforms into broadcast media, according to Warc, the global marketing intelligence service. With […]

Clutch Acquires Persio to Extend Mobile Marketing Capabilities

Clutch Acquires Persio to Extend Mobile Marketing Capabilities

Clutch, a customer management and marketing analytics company, has acquired intelligent mobile promotions platform Persio in a deal that will add powerful new mobile marketing capabilities to the Clutch platform. The transaction puts Clutch in a position to capture a bigger share of the $32 billion marketing technology industry, just as brands are increasingly looking […]

Simian launches new app aimed at curating the best upcoming and trending digital content for creatives

Simian launches new app aimed at curating the best upcoming and trending digital content for creatives

Jay Brooks and Brian Atton, founders of media-sharing solution, Simian, and Michael Chiavetta, co-founder of content consultancy, KIMBA, officially announce the launch of their unique content app, Dank. The app, inspired by the name of online viral media called ‘Dank Memes’, has been developed to curate and define the best online content before it trends. […]