Integral Ad Science Media Quality Report: Video ad engagement rises in the UK

Integral Ad Science Media Quality Report: Video ad engagement rises in the UK

UK desktop video ad viewability rose by 7.9 percentage points during 2017, driven by a narrowing performance gap between programmatic and publisher direct trading, according to new research. The latest Integral Ad Science Media Quality Report highlights the state of viewability, brand safety, and ad fraud within the UK digital advertising industry The H2 2017 report highlights […]

TabMo and adsquare combine mobile ad creative automation with real-time campaign ROI measurement

TabMo and adsquare combine mobile ad creative automation with real-time campaign ROI measurement

 TabMo has launched its ‘Branding To Store’ mobile advertising solution that combines for the first time the automated creation of a drive-to-store ad format with the ability to measure the real-time uplift in footfall traffic resulting from the campaign. The unique feature has been built to meet the needs of TabMo’s retail brand clients […]

Alibaba to buy remaining shares in food delivery app Ele.me

Alibaba to buy remaining shares in food delivery app Ele.me

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd announced it would buy the remaining shares of Ele.me, a major platform in China’s food delivery market, as it competes with Tencent Holdings Ltd services for offline consumers. Alibaba and affiliate Ant Small & Micro Financial Services Group Co Ltd currently own approximately 43 percent of Ele.me, and the […]

Windermere Real Estate taps Adwerx Enterprise to power online listing advertising program

Windermere Real Estate taps Adwerx Enterprise to power online listing advertising program

Windermere Real Estate, the largest regional real estate company in the Western U.S. announced that it has launched a new automated advertising service for high-end listings in the company’s Premier Properties program in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The program will serve the nearly 1,200 agents from more than 60 of the company’s offices in this region. “This partnership […]

Google buys GIF-sharing app Tenor

Google buys GIF-sharing app Tenor

Google agreed to buy Tenor, a four-year old startup that helps advertisers run mobile ad campaigns that feature GIFs, or short video clips that run on a loop, per a blog post. About 300 million people a month use Tenor’s platform for Android, iOS and desktop to find GIFs to copy into messages or to […]

Almost half the world’s online population plans to tune in to the World Cup, according to GlobalWebIndex

Almost half the world’s online population plans to tune in to the World Cup, according to GlobalWebIndex

Almost half the world’s online population plans to tune into the Fifa World Cup in Russia according to research from GlobalWebIndex. The company surveyed 80,267 people from more than 40 leading markets, finding numerous insights for marketers to capitalise on. Notably, 47% of the online population plans to watch the Fifa World Cup this summer. […]

Snapchat may soon let third-party apps connect to user accounts

Snapchat may soon let third-party apps connect to user accounts

Snapchat is reportedly working on a new feature that will let users control which third-party apps will have access to their accounts, the media reported. The latest beta version of Snapchat has a new feature category called “Connected Apps” whose description reads: “These apps are connected to your Snapchat account. Choose an app to control […]

Game of Whales helps mobile game developers make money in their sleep, without using advertising

Game of Whales helps mobile game developers make money in their sleep, without using advertising

After 200 million downloads (and counting), mobile games publisher Deemedya had a problem; existing platforms that promised to increase app monetization simply weren’t delivering. So the team decided to go away and build their perfect platform. After 18 months in stealth mode, Game of Whales is the result. Game of Whales is a new kind […]

Advertisers invest $63bn in programmatic buying but industry concerns loom large, according to WARC

Advertisers invest $63bn in programmatic buying but industry concerns loom large, according to WARC

WARC, the international authority on advertising and media effectiveness, has released its latest monthly Global Ad Trends report, digesting up-to-date insights and evidenced thinking from the worldwide advertising industry. Threats to the digital advertising ecosystem is the focus of the latest report. WARC estimates that $63.4bn was spent on programmatic advertising worldwide last year, but […]

Turner’s sports streaming service ‘Bleacher Report Live’ to launch in April

Turner’s sports streaming service ‘Bleacher Report Live’ to launch in April

Turner‘s long-in-the-making live sports service is almost here. The broadcaster has announced that its Bleacher Report Live service will debut April 7th in a free preview mode, with “flexible” pricing when you have to start paying in the summer. It’ll present live sports in a Facebook-style home feed, with personalization that aggregates content based on […]