With consumers glued to their smartphones, mobile ad budgets are soaring

With consumers glued to their smartphones, mobile ad budgets are soaring

Reading this on your smartphone? Company advertising departments will be pleasantly unsurprised. Consumers’ obsession with their smartphones meant that firms increased their mobile advertising budgets by 56 per cent year-on-year to £1.7bn in the first half of 2016. This means that 36p in every £1 spent on internet advertising now goes on phones, up from […]

How FRISO Vietnam “Spread the Love” with a project by Out There Media and Mindshare

How FRISO Vietnam “Spread the Love” with a project by Out There Media and Mindshare

Friso by Friesland Campina is a trusted brand across the world by mums and “mums-to-be”. This trust originates from years of nourishment and love to ensure the products are of utmost quality. Hence it is very important for Friso to get the right information about mums and their infants – so as to allow the […]

Snap Could Make a Billion in Advertising and IPO Could Shatter Expectations

Snap Could Make a Billion in Advertising and IPO Could Shatter Expectations

Snapchat has been growing at rate faster than any other social media app. Millennials seem to love it, and even famous personalities born in the 1920s have recognized its potential. Indeed, former Israeli president and towering political figure Shimon Peres joined Snapchat in the very last days of his life. Credible rumors suggest that a […]

Tailored Brands Does Mobile Marketing With Waterfall

Tailored Brands Does Mobile Marketing With Waterfall

Tailored Brands is using cloud mobile marketing solutions from Waterfall. The partnership will deliver Waterfall’s mobile marketing and engagement solutions across Tailored Brands’ three marquee brands. With the addition of Tailored Brands to its client roster, Waterfall increases its footprint in the retail vertical and delivers the next wave of innovation for brands to better […]

Cheil Worldwide creates ‘Beat the Street’ Samsung VR game to improve road safety for children

Cheil Worldwide creates ‘Beat the Street’ Samsung VR game to improve road safety for children

In the Netherlands, thousands of young children cycle to school and back every day. Every year, a large number of those children are involved in road accidents, some of them fatal. This is mainly due to the children’s lack of experience with road traffic. To address this problem, in collaboration with Veilig Verkeer Nederland (the […]

Mobile advertisers are spending more money on Android

Mobile advertisers are spending more money on Android

Mobile advertisers are spending more money on Android, according to September data on mobile ad spending from a report by mobile marketing firm Fiksu DSP. Apple’s iOS remains the more competitive platform for mobile ads, but advertisers are willing to pay higher mobile ad prices across both platforms now. Fiksu’s new indexes, launched today, measure cost […]

Addictive Mobility and Adobe Audience Manager Power High-Value Audience Activation Across the Mobile App Ecosystem in Canada

Addictive Mobility and Adobe Audience Manager Power High-Value Audience Activation Across the Mobile App Ecosystem in Canada

Addictive Mobility, a leading mobile ad tech solution provider and Adobe Audience Manager, the industry’s leading data management platform (DMP), have successfully completed a platform integration that will allow brands to extend high-value audience segments from cross-device channels to the mobile environment. Adobe Audience Manager, a core solution within Adobe Marketing Cloud, consolidates audience information […]

New app industry survey: 86% of marketers will use remarketing in next year

New app industry survey: 86% of marketers will use remarketing in next year

Apsalar, the Mobile ROI platform that helps mobile-first marketers drive extraordinary growth, and Thomvest Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, released the results of a global survey of enterprise mobile app marketers, focused on how these business leaders are investing their marketing dollars. The survey, conducted in July/August 2016, queried app marketers from around […]

McDonald’s, Unilever and Gatorade among the first to run Snapchat API campaigns

McDonald’s, Unilever and Gatorade among the first to run Snapchat API campaigns

McDonald’s, Unilever and Gatorade are among the first advertisers to purchase Snapchat ads via third parties in what appears to be a test of the app’s programmatic potential. Rather than rush to explore that potential, the mobile messaging app is carefully testing automated ads with a select number of brands. These include Gatorade and Nissan […]

Brands need to respect consumer journey and control in mobile advertising

Brands need to respect consumer journey and control in mobile advertising

Building better mobile advertising experiences comes down to understanding the consumer journey, being contextually relevant, and respecting their ability to opt in and out of engagement. That’s the view of Exponential head of mobile for APAC and South Africa, Nicole Liebmann, who presented on how to optimise mobile advertising at the vendor’s recent customer breakfast […]