Mobile At The Heart Of Retail Experience According To IAB Global Report

Mobile At The Heart Of Retail Experience According To IAB Global Report

Mobile shopping and purchasing have become the norm across the globe, according to “Mobile Commerce: A Global Perspective,” an in-depth survey of mobile users from 19 countries around the world, released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) at the IAB MIXX Conference. Just over three-quarters (76 per cent) of smartphone and tablet users in […]

Mobile Advertising Market to Account Revenue of US$ 269.14 Bn by 2024 Globally!

Mobile Advertising Market to Account Revenue of US$ 269.14 Bn by 2024 Globally!

According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research entitled “Mobile Advertising Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2016 – 2024,” the global mobile advertising market in terms of revenue accounted for US$ 13.05 Bn in 2014 and is forecast to expand at a CAGR of 31.3% during […]

Snapchat rebrands as Snap Inc after camera ‘Spectacles’ unveil

Snapchat rebrands as Snap Inc after camera ‘Spectacles’ unveil

Snapchat’s name has disappeared about as quickly as the app’s trademark disappearing photos. The Venice, California-based company is debuting its first hardware, $129.99 video-capturing sunglasses, and renaming itself as “Snap Inc.” to reflect its new direction, the company’s CEO and cofounder Evan Spiegel told WSJ Magazine. Snapchat has been testing early versions of the gadget, […]

Instagram’s COO On Exceeding 500,000 Advertisers And The App’s Next Big Opportunity

Instagram’s COO On Exceeding 500,000 Advertisers And The App’s Next Big Opportunity

Instagram announced it has exceeded 500,000 advertisers. COO Marne Levine, speaking to Forbes,  says the company’s next big opportunity is catering to small- and medium-sized businesses. (Courtesy of Facebook) The number of advertisers on Instagram has more than doubled over the last six months and now exceeds 500,000, up from about 200,000 in February, the […]

Twitter thinks its new ad format could reach 800 million people

Twitter thinks its new ad format could reach 800 million people

Twitter is pushing further into one of the most lucrative segments of the mobile ad economy. The social network announced September 22 that it is now letting advertisers run native app-install advertising campaigns across a host of different apps through the platform’s third-party partnership network. Like other types of native ads, the network will shoehorn promotions […]

Marketers lose $100 million to mobile app advertising fraud

Marketers lose $100 million to mobile app advertising fraud

App marketers will lose up to $100 million in 2016 due to mobile app install and engagement advertising fraud according to a new study. The research from mobile analytics company AppsFlyer shows that the losses come from fraudulent click data, paid installs from fraudulent devices, and fraudulent and simulated in-app events. While the study found […]

Tinder’s newest app, Tinder Stacks, lets you swipe on anything

Tinder’s newest app, Tinder Stacks, lets you swipe on anything

Tinder today is launching a new application for social polling. The company announced the debut of “Tinder Stacks,” an app for iMessage users that will let you use the “swipe to like” gesture the dating app popularized for anything you want – whether that’s polling your friends which photo should be your new profile picture, […]