Beer brand Desperados, part of the Brau Union brewery group, has launched a vertical video campaign aimed specifically at mobile consumers, one of the first of its kind to be run in Europe. The campaign, developed by mobile ad tech firm YOC, centres around an understitial vertical video ads that enables a full screen display […]
Unilever brands Knorr, Rexona and Magnum are pushing out mobile video ads with an auto start-stop function that are less intrusive for consumers while enabling the marketer to only pay for visible impressions. Ad transparency is a heated topic in digital marketing these days, with brands increasingly expressing frustration over not having a clearer picture […]
Kahuna, a top player in cross-channel marketing automation for the mobile era, has just launched what it calls “Experiences,” which executes the personalization and optimization of customer journeys, freeing marketers up to be the creative strategists of campaigns. The product, we’re told, empowers marketers to “chain and orchestrate messaging across multiple channels, and deliver personalized, timely […]
Starbucks is inviting Facebook users to find out which iced coffee drink best suits their lifestyle, reflecting a resurgence in popularity for mobile-optimized personality quizzes as consumers seek out quick hits of entertainment. The coffee giant is sponsoring ads on Facebook to promote its newest mobile quiz, which consists of eight summer-themed questions designed to […]
Taxi firm Uber launches Deliveroo-like food delivery service in London – and here’s how you might be able to get a free lunch out of it. Your lunch break is about to get a little bit more snappy thanks to a new rollout from Uber. The US-based taxi service, which has rapidly expanded across the […]
Taco Bell is one of the brands leveraging xAd’s new MarketPlace Discovery platform to gain more insight into customers’ foot traffic behaviors, exhibiting the importance of tapping real-time data to serve consumers the right message at the right time. Taco Bell is using the real-time mobile location intelligence platform to uncover time-of-day as well as […]
With the Euro 2016 currently on in way in France, Wochit co-founder & CEO Dror Ginzberg argues that this might be the last major international football tournament to be aired exclusively on television. “UEFA auctioned the television rights to Euro 2016 for a record total of £782m across 230 territories a number of years ago before the fragment of sports […]
As retailers hunker down on perfecting their location-based marketing techniques, the tactic of integrating mobile advertisements with directions to bricks-and-mortar stores via map applications may be the strategy they are searching for. Although ads for strictly mobile or digital promotions are often times at the top of retailers’ sought-after marketing initiatives lists, the importance of […]
The way Britons share and interact with online content on smartphones is dominated by so-called ‘Dark Social’ channels, such as email, text and instant messaging, rather than public social networks. According to a new study by marketing technology experts, RadiumOne, over three-quarters of publishers’ or marketers’ content shared via mobile phones takes place via private […]
Out There Media in partnership with Mindshare, Arcade and XL Axiata won a Silver Award at The 18th International Food and Beverage Excellence Awards (The FAB Awards) in London on May 26th, 2016 for Wall’s Ice Cream. The “Taste Joy” campaign for Unilever’s Wall’s brand in Indonesia was recognised in the “Mobile Marketing Effectiveness” category […]