Tencent has become the first Asian company to be valued at more than $500bn after shares hit a record high on November 20. The Chinese Internet giant’s shares closed at HK$420 per share on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on November 21, boosting Tencent’s market value to $510.7bn. The valuation sees Tencent join Apple, Alphabet, […]
Mindshare UK previewed their Trends for 2018 – identifying the top five trends for marketers to watch for over the next 12 months, during their Huddle in London on November 9. A comprehensive report will then follow on December 5th exploring the trends in detail, their role in consumers’ lives, and their implications for the world of media […]
TabMo, the first mobile DSP combining programmatic ad buying with proprietary creative ad units, and Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global measurement and analytics company that builds verification, optimisation, and analytics solutions to empower the advertising industry, today announce a pre-bid integration on TabMo’s Hawk platform. Through this partnership, Hawk gives online marketers improved brand […]
The award-winning production and creative technology company, Grand Visual, has produced a smart, data-driven digital out of home campaign for Audi UK to enhance the brand’s agility in the digital space and increase awareness of the advanced intelligent technologies available in their latest models. The campaign runs across premium roadside screens on a nationwide scale from 16th October – 29th October. […]
A big and flashy new billboard in London’s Piccadilly Circus is joining the trend of targeting individual passersby, both pedestrians and drivers, and then serving ads to them. The digital LED screen, about 2,600 square feet in size and divisible into six ads, will feature about some 11 million pixels, Wired U.K. reports, and is the largest […]
Driven by the rise in popularity of people watching online video, advertisers spent more on video ads than banner ads for the first ever time – according to the latest Internet Advertising Bureau UK / PwC Digital Adspend report. In the first half of 2017, advertisers spent £699 million on video ads – a 46% […]
Studio Stick is the world’s first portable recording studio for smartphones that allows users to record high quality songs/audio anywhere on the go for an extremely lower cost than professional studio time. Studio Stick is now currently live on Kickstarter and raising funds to bring the project to life. “Professional studios can cost upwards of hundreds of […]
E-Commerce giant Amazon has begun selling its Alexa-controlled Echo speakers in Asia on October 4, starting with India, with plans to expand sales to Japan in the later part of 2017. The company said it will start selling the new Echo, Echo Plus and Echo Dot by invitation only, before shipping the devices to the […]
More than half (53%) of 16-75-year-olds in the UK use their smartphones while walking – the equivalent of around 22 million people – according to the latest research from Deloitte. For younger consumers aged 16-24, the proportion rises to 74%. Worryingly, more than 4.5 million people (11% of respondents) also admit to using their smartphones while […]
Inneractive, a programmatic trading technology platform and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fyber N.V., announced that they have launched their Video Advertising Monetization Platform (VAMP) to bring power back to publishers. VAMP enables publishers to discover the optimal mix of ad units, run innovative video ad formats with high levels of viewability and user engagement, […]