More than one in four teenagers – an estimated 866,000 young people in England and Wales – say they couldn’t enjoy Christmas without social media according to a new survey carried out for The Children’s Society. Almost one in three, more than one million, said they thought it was getting harder to enjoy Christmas, while […]
Episode, one of the world’s largest mobile storytelling network, launched Cameron Dallas: Started with a Lie, an original interactive mobile story in collaboration with entrepreneur and influencer Cameron Dallas. In a thrilling tale of love, heartbreak, and mystery, Cameron Dallas: Started with a Lie invites fans to star opposite their favourite celebrity. “As an entrepreneur, […]
Research from Smaato has shown the power of video within mobile advertising, highlighting the increasing dominance of in-app advertising over mobile web in overall worldwide mobile ad spending and also delves into the explosive growth of mobile video. The global real-time advertising platform provider’s company’s Q3 2017 Global Trends in Mobile Advertising Report, analysed over […]
Emirates has collaborated with Spotify to help Australians discover their ideal travel destination and find their ‘True North’ as part of a new campaign. The campaign is an interactive and personalised experience that connects users with destinations across the globe that are aligned with their listening history and musical preferences on Spotify, using a custom […]
The digital habits of older car buyers and older members of Generation X – the 45-54 year-olds – are keeping the laptop business in rude health, according to the latest research from automotive video expert CitNOW. Members of ‘Generation X’ and those over-55 are keen viewers of online video content and among the most receptive […]
What if your Instagram feed was all around you as you walked through the city? That’s the challenge GS&P Labs, Goodby Silverstein & Partners’ in-house innovation department, tackled with its new prototype, GRAMAR. The new prototype fuses Instagram and ARKit by turning Instagram photos into 8ft x 8ft images and places them in the world around […]
Uber has partnered with BBM Messenger to enable users of the messaging app to book an Uber directly from it. It covers BBM Messenger users on Android and iOS users, as well as BlackBerry, enabling them to book an Uber from the BBM app, even if they don’t have the Uber app installed on their phone. The partnership […]
Bloomberg Media and Twitter launched TicToc by Bloomberg, the first-ever 24/7 global news network built for a social media platform that targets the next generation of on-the-go, mobile-first news consumers. It combines the global news gathering capabilities of Bloomberg’s 2,700 journalists and analysts across 120 countries, with the digital power and immediacy of Twitter, one […]
To step up its efforts to rival Google’s unified payments interface (UPI) application Tez, digital payment company Paytm is now pushing for the QR code to become the primary method of acceptance of payments using either UPI or debit cards at zero cost. The Indian government recently subsidised the charges on debit card payments that […]
The monetisation of WhatsApp by parent company Facebook took another step forward: Advertisers on Facebook can now include a button on their Facebook boosted organic posts that enables users to contact them via the messaging application. Facebook introduced click-to-Messenger Facebook ads in November 2016 as part of its launch of version 1.3 of its Messenger […]