Flipboard announced 65 new publications available on its platform through partnerships with publishers Bonnier, Rodale and The Enthusiast Network (TEN). The new titles, such as Motor Trend, Working Mother and Runners World, add breadth and depth to the topics people follow on Flipboard. In the months ahead Flipboard will add more sources and important voices […]
Triton Digital, a leading technology provider for the audio industry, announced that SoundCloud, the world’s leading music and audio platform, has selected Triton Digital’s programmatic audio advertising exchange, a2x as a monetization partner for their digital audio advertising inventory in Canada. This partnership enables programmatic buyers throughout Canada to execute targeted, at-scale buys across SoundCloud’s highly engaged […]
Research conducted by InMobi and Mindshare, in partnership with Unilever, indicates that brand campaigns deliver better results when delivered as integrated ‘TV + Mobile’ campaigns compared to ‘TV only’ campaigns. The multiscreen approach is seen to deliver significantly higher impact on stimulating purchase intent in consumers in addition to being more cost-effective as compared to […]
The worst moment of your adolescent life may have been the year that you were told you were too old to go trick-or-treating. (Just ask my 13-year-old son!) Hershey’s TAKE5 helps adults get back into the trick-or-treating game with Take or Treat, a mobile site that lets people knock on their phone for free candy. […]
Music streaming service Spotify has begun serving vertical video ads using its new format ‘Branded Moments’, which launched in beta in October. Like a number of the service’s other ad format, Branded Moments offers users 30 minutes of commercial-free listening afterwards, but Branded Moments is the first video unit from the streaming firm to use […]
Sabio mobile announced it is entering into a strategic partnership with Boron5 (A Thunder Cloud Marketing, LLC. Brand). The marketing alliance will position the innovative mobile platform to better identify African-American consumers on mobile devices. Boron5 is a brand marketing and storytelling company. Founded by seasoned marketing executive George Haynes, Boron5 is a team of […]
Study results from research conducted by IAB UK and PricewaterhouseCoopers has revealed interesting new trends in mobile ads. What they found is that companies are spending more to advertise on mobile screens than on desktop browsers. This represents the first time the spending balance has moved in that direction. The report data showed that companies […]
Airmarket announced a new advertising format that will revolutionise the way brands engage with customers on their mobile devices by combining hyper-location data with programmatic technology. They will give advertisers access to a global network of beacons to deliver personalised, targeted advertising to consumers based on their real-time location. Device users will receive notifications on their […]
Snap’s general manager in the UK, Claire Valoti, made her first public appearance at IAB’s Engage event in London equipped with some new demographic data on UK users, according to The Drum. The company announced that 77% of users in the UK are over the age of 18. This is good because it means that most of Snapchat’s […]
A lot has been said about mobile campaigns in the past 2 years, we know that marketers today need to create emotional connections with their customers to drive engagement across multiple touch-points. Using Snapchat is not really doing a mobile campaign and does not constitute a teen engagement strategy. With the popularity of Snapchat, it’s […]