In a survey of over 200 SMEs by UK call tracking provider, Mediahawk, 62% said that social media brings in the highest quality leads and sales. Offline media such as print, including magazines, flyers and newspaper ads, bring in the second highest quality leads to their business (51%), revealing that small businesses must manage their […]
Men’s footwear brand Boxfresh soared above Google benchmarks with programmatic display campaign to disrupt highly competitive market, working with Rakuten Marketing. Boxfresh was to re-establish its brand in UK and German markets and drive repeat business among online customers. Established in 1989, Boxfresh played a part in igniting the rise of streetwear as we know it today. […]
Popular weather app AccuWeather has been sending geolocation data to a third-party firm which uses location data to help publishers and media companies generate more money via accurate mobile audience segments. According to Verify.ly founder Will Strafach, when users accept location requests from the iOS version of the app they are also granting access to their location […]
LinkedIn is continuing to diversify its product portfolio with the introduction of native video, as the online professional network’s owner Microsoft seeks to bolster its fortunes. The B2B network said that it would now begin the global rollout of its native video offering to its 500 million-plus user base after it began experimenting with the […]
Food retailers like Walmart, Unilever and Nestlé are partnering with IBM on a blockchain collaboration intended to address food safety. Additional IBM partners include Dole, Driscoll’s, Golden State Foods, Kroger, McCormick and Company, McLane Company and Tyson Foods. They will work with IBM to identify new areas where the global supply chain can benefit from […]
Mobile game developers are increasingly implementing “rewarded ads” that players can view while playing in exchange for in-game prizes, The Wall Street Journal reports. This comes amid a big upswing in advertising in games — 78% of the 50 highest-grossing gaming apps in the US featured ads in the first half of this year, compared with 45% in 2016. Candy Crush […]
InMobi, one of the largest independent mobile advertising and technology platform, announced the launch of a mobile media platform for premium in-app video advertising. Through partnerships with top publishers in the country such as Viu, Detik, Path, BBM, Baca, LINE and others, InMobi now becomes the largest mobile media platform in Indonesia with a reach […]
Barclays has teamed up with Apple to become the first UK high street bank to introduce the ability for customers to make payments using their voice through Siri. Siri has been integrated into the Barclays Mobile Banking app, meaning iPhone and iPad-using Barclays customers no longer need to open the app to pay existing payees and mobile […]
Teens are leaving Facebook faster than expected, according to a new study from eMarketer. The study estimates that Facebook’s user base among 12- to 17-year-olds in the US will shrink by 3.4 percent in 2017, the first time eMarketer has predicted a decline in Facebook usage for any age group. The company said that it “reduced […]
Global location tech company GroundTruth (formerly xAd) has seen a 35% QoQ revenue growth as major brands like L’Occitane and Timberland put more budget towards location-based marketing. Following their acquisition of WeatherBug, GroundTruth have won 35 new Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) since the start of 2017. As global interest continues to develop and in the […]