Huawei has initiated its debut fully integrated global marketing campaign in the UK. The Asian mobile brand is teasing what it is calling an “exciting new innovation” as part of the ‘#OO’ campaign, which will roll globally across out-of-home, print, digital and social channels. It launched in London to culminate in a major announcement on […]
Apptentive and SurveyMonkey recently partnered to study how consumers and businesses approach feedback, and the role mobile plays in gathering customer input. The outcome of the partnership is a comprehensive new report — Feedback and Loyalty on the Mobile Frontier — which provides new data on consumer expectations and insights on how companies can leverage […]
Verve, a location-based mobile marketing giant, is opening its London office as the base for its international business. Why the global push? Verve’s US revenue growth has far outpaced the market over the past several years, the company explained in a news release. The leadership team sees significant opportunity for Verve’s product suite in the […]
Although marketers know mobile is a strategic imperative, the vast majority still fail to strategically integrate it into their marketing mix, according to fresh findings from Forrester. Only 13% of marketers say they strategically integrate mobile systematically. Not surprisingly, therefore, only 27% of marketers surveyed by Forrester said the ROI of their mobile marketing campaigns […]
Ad industry sources reveal that Pinterest’s “long-awaited video ads” are here. “Pinterest had been considering how it could implement video ads for months,” noted Garett Sloane in a post for Digiday. “Promoted video pins are being tested among a small group of users, and internally at Pinterest, according to one source briefed on the tests.” […]
Chinese consumers enamored of the convenience and power of mobile payments learned this week that Samsung Electronics and China UnionPay are jointly launching Samsung Pay in China. Billed as being a “simple, safe and easy-to-use mobile payment service,” Samsung Pay works virtually anywhere you can swipe or tap your card in China. According to the […]
Snapchat has started testing ads that let marketers like AT&T attach branded articles containing text, images and GIFs to their 10-second video ads. Snapchat’s advertising business has only been around for about 17 months, and in that time its ad formats have been pretty basic: 10-second vertical videos slotted between posts in its Live and […]
Mobile ad spend is set to surge 35 per cent compared to 12 months earlier and surpass desktop media investment to hit £4.58bn in 2016, and account for 27 per cent of total UK media budgets, according to eMarketer. The research firm on March 10 released the numbers which show that the wider ‘digital’ category […]
The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday this year, and as of late has been rolling out a number of ads and marketing stunts to raise awareness of the milestone, including a virtual park tour and campaign created by Grey called ‘Find Your Park.’ The US agency’s latest centennial initiative is a mobile […]
64 per cent of consumers have been influenced to purchase by a mobile ad – a figure that rises to 80 per cent among millennials. But 43 per cent are more likely to buy from an organisation that sends them relevant advertising on their mobiles. And perhaps unsurprisingly, 76 per cent are more willing to […]