In a first-of-its-kind partnership with Picturehouse Cinemas, Spotify, one of the world’s most popular streaming service, will be taking over the pre-movie ‘turn off your phone’ moment across all screenings for two months as part of a broader campaign involving OOH, social, radio and digital activations. The partnership, devised by media agency UM and Digital […]
Mindshare, part of WPP, and Sanofi, the global healthcare leader, have launched the UK’s first brand-led pollen alert on Amazon’s Alexa platform. In addition to being market-leading within the consumer health space, it is also the first voice-activated skill to use hyper-local data to notify users about high pollen counts in their postcode. It is […]
Teads, the global media platform, announced an exclusive UK and EEA partnership with Guardian News & Media (GNM) to deliver inRead advertising technology. Teads’ global media platform will enable GNM to scale its online inRead inventory, whilst increasing video and display ad monetization through both its direct sales team as well as Teads demand. Initially […]
AppsFlyer, the global leader in mobile attribution and marketing analytics, released its latest Performance Index, providing marketers with the most comprehensive report to date on the evolving mobile advertising industry. Covering activity in the second half of 2018, the report draws on 370 media networks to examine 20 billion app installs, 11,500 apps, and 39 […]
Mindshare, part of WPP, announces the launch of its audience-first customer decisioning tool, DX. By leveraging user experience principles in its approach, DX is able to reveal much more nuanced decision-making behaviours than many industry frameworks, unlocking new avenues of growth for clients. The launch is in response to emerging changes that Mindshare is seeing […]
Following a competitive multi-agency pitch, GroupM’s media agency MediaCom has been awarded the media mandate for Mobile Premier League (MPL). MPL is the leader in the competitive mobile gaming space with several of India’s most loved mobile games featuring on the platform, and new games being added every week. As their full form AOR, MediaCom […]
Verizon Media has increased the capabilities of its Moments native advertising format to give marketers more options than before, opening up the format to new gaming, shopping, 360-degree and carousel products. The group, formerly known as Oath, is looking to position itself to better benefit from an upswing in native ads in the US with it […]
On February 8, in partnership with Spark Foundry UK and The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, Verizon Media announces a new VR 360º video experience, offering users the opportunity to virtually explore some of the biggest tourist attractions in Abu Dhabi. Created by RYOT Studio, the branching narrative within the video places […]
New research suggests that online fashion shoppers globally now spend more on mobile than desktop: 46% v 44%. But with each visitor spending nearly 30% less time on a site when they come via mobile than they do on desktop, retailers face the key challenge of optimising the mobile experience so shoppers can browse their […]
PeerLogix, the go-to audience discovery platform for the OTT/streaming TV landscape, announced a partnership with SoMo Audience, one of the largest mobile ad exchanges. The partnership will allow SoMo’s mobile media buyers to target audiences through private marketplaces based on PeerLogix’s OTT engagement data, sourced from of over 170 million viewing households and sortable by title, […]