A new study on native advertising from Facebook and IHS Inc. accompanies new stats from Facebook on its Audience Network — the mobile ad network that recently branched out from in-app to mobile web publishers. According to the new report, by 2020, media buyers will spend $84.5 billion on mobile advertising, with mobile accounting for […]
A new ad for the footwear brand Converse, features climbers Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov, who’ve made headlines in recent years for the videos and photographs they’ve shot from the top of some of the tallest buildings in the world, like Shanghai Tower. To promote the Chuck Taylor All Star II line, they’ve scaled Moscow’s […]
Pinterest’s Promoted Pins ad format has landed in the UK, with brands like John Lewis, Made.com, B&Q and Tesco announced as early launch partners. The visual bookmarking tool, which allows users to curate and share images and ideas via an online scrapbook of ‘Pins’, made the announcement on April 6. Promoted Pins, which launched in […]
As part of its commitment to give back to the community, Samsung kicked off its ‘Make Hong Kong Better’ initiative in December 2015 by teaming up with Hong Kong Blind Union. The video from the campaign by Cheil Hong Kong, was recently released. Established in 1964, Hong Kong Blind Union is the city’s first self-help group […]
Australian Tinder users have been ‘swiping right’ to a series of personified STIs as part of a campaign by condom brand Hero. From ‘Johnorrhoea’ to ‘Sydphilis’ and ‘Herpeia’, a series of 10 fake profiles named after the diseases have been appearing as potential date options for singles on the platform in a bid to highlight the unpleasant side-effects […]
In February Jeep chose to air its minute-long Super Bowl spot “Portraits” vertically, partly because the creative fit the size of a mobile phone. Now, the brand is permanently setting up shop on vertical-oriented Snapchat. Recently, Jeep officially opened a Snapchat account, posting user-generated photos of cars. Each day, users have been voting for their favourite photo […]
Burberry currently running its very own temporary Discover channel on Snapchat, a native ad with a suite of branded content. The channel, which can be found in the first slot of the Discover tab of Snapchat, is dedicated to promoting Mr. Burberry, the luxury brand’s latest men’s fragrance and accompanying capsule collection and men’s grooming products. While […]
Twitter announced that it has rolled out First View to the UK and Europe, an ad offering that lets video promotions sit in prime positions on the feed, with Universal announced as the first brand to test the product. First View will work with a Promoted Trend to provide advertisers with premium ad placements for […]
The specialized ads are now out of beta, along with ad listings for nearby dealerships. You may recall that Google announced new mobile ad formats for specific verticals about a year ago, one version of which was a test for automotive manufacturers and dealers. On Wednesday, the company announced the big mobile ads that feature […]
Almost a year after it started the process of measuring mobile viewability, the Media Rating Council has issued its first set of guidelines, which recommend that marketers treat smartphone and desktop ads the same. Per the media watchdog, a viewable impression means marketers will only be charged after 50 percent of a mobile ad loads […]