Pepsi transforms Twitter users’ photos into branded moments with stickers

Pepsi transforms Twitter users’ photos into branded moments with stickers

PepsiCo is the first to partner with Twitter for its promoted sticker launch as the next leg in the consumer packaged goods marketer’s Pepsimoji campaign, which is populating the physical and digital realms with millennial-friendly symbols. The promoted Twitter stickers will allow users to connect with Pepsi by incorporating marketed content within their own photos, […]

Using geolocation, a mobile microsite – Mahou-San Miguel uses online gaming to engage fans ahead of final

Using geolocation, a mobile microsite – Mahou-San Miguel uses online gaming to engage fans ahead of final

Mahou-San Miguel, the most important beer brand in Spain, leveraged its sports sponsorships by hosting an online game for consumers aged 18 to 50 leading up to a football match between two Madrid rivals. This case study looks at how the brand used online gaming to engage fans to reach 10% of Madrid’s population. CAMPAIGN […]

Watford FC and Critical Mass launch world’s most innovative football club website

Watford FC and Critical Mass launch world’s most innovative football club website

Watford FC launches a new digital platform, creating a dramatically different new online home for fans of the Premier League club. The new responsive site, which launches to coincide with the start of the 2016/17 Premier League season, is the result of Watford FC’s first partnership with global digital experience design agency Critical Mass,following a […]

The Trade Desk Partners with Spotify and More for Audio Programmatic

The Trade Desk Partners with Spotify and More for Audio Programmatic

Ad tech firm The Trade Desk has partnered with Spotify, Triton Digital and AdsWizz in order to bring fully programmatic digital audio inventory to its customer base. With more consumers than ever before accessing streaming audio via their mobile device, digital audio is a growing channel for advertisers, and programmatic buying can give marketers access […]

Persil partners ‘Uber for laundry’ service ZipJet

Persil partners ‘Uber for laundry’ service ZipJet

Persil has teamed up with mobile dry cleaning service ZipJet, as its owner Unilever continues to expand into mobile commerce. ZipJet was founded in 2014 in Germany, and currently operates in three European cities- Berlin, London and Dublin. The company forges alliances with local launderettes and offers jobs for drivers to deliver freshly laundered and […]

Domino’s beats Pizza Hut to launch Facebook Messenger bot

Domino’s beats Pizza Hut to launch Facebook Messenger bot

Above: Domino’s Facebook Messenger Bot   Image Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat Domino’s is the latest company to embrace the bot revolution, with the launch of a pizza-ordering bot for Facebook Messenger. Launching initially in the U.K. and Ireland only, “Dom” is touted as an “artificially intelligent customer service whiz,” according to the press release, and […]

SpringHill Suites by Marriott Launches First-to-Market Mobile Programmatic Interscroller

SpringHill Suites by Marriott Launches First-to-Market Mobile Programmatic Interscroller

SpringHill Suites by Marriott capitalized on the popularity surrounding mobile video by leveraging a programmatic interscroller format to offer users an immersive tour of a room, resulting in nearly three times higher ad engagement than the benchmark for hospitality brands. The subsidiary of Marriott International teamed up with video advertising and digital display platform Celtra, […]

Kenshoo: Mobile video drives social ad spend up 50 per cent

Kenshoo: Mobile video drives social ad spend up 50 per cent

Spend on search ads continues to grow, with advertisers increasingly taking advantage of newer ad types, according to new research. Spend on social advertising has increased by 47% year-on-year (YoY) in the second quarter of 2016, with social ads attracting a 21% higher cost-per-click (CPC) as they become more specialised and valuable according to the […]