Ad Creative Identified as Key Driver of Customer Engagement and Media ROI in Independent Study

Ad Creative Identified as Key Driver of Customer Engagement and Media ROI in Independent Study

Celtra, the leading creative management platform for digital advertising, released results from a commissioned study, “The Mobile Ad Experience Matters To Your Media ROI,” conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Celtra.  The study found that brands who prioritize creative see improved customer response rates and achieve higher brand recognition. Forrester predicts that mobile advertising spend […]

Opera Mediaworks is now AdColony

Opera Mediaworks is now AdColony

Opera Mediaworks announced its new company name will be AdColony with the goal of unifying the brand, performance and publishing business under a single name. The name change will become effective starting in January 2017, and the company will continue to stay independent, with the corporate entity listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under Opera […]

Warc Toolkit: Artificial Intelligence to impact the marketing industry in 2017

Warc Toolkit: Artificial Intelligence to impact the marketing industry in 2017

Warc, the global marketing intelligence service, concludes that Artificial Intelligence (AI), defined as the ability of computers to take on tasks that have previously required human intelligence to complete – such as speech recognition or interpreting data – will have a major impact on the marketing industry in 2017. David Tiltman, Warc’s Head of Content, […]

Bacardi and Swizz Beatz Create a New Kind of DJ Experience on Instagram

Bacardi and Swizz Beatz Create a New Kind of DJ Experience on Instagram

Bacardi is employing Instagram Stories to let consumers play interactive DJ, representing a truly new kind of musical experience on the 4-month-old feature. Working with agency BBDO and Facebook’s Creative Shop, the liquor brand’s global chief creative for culture, Swizz Beatz, has concocted a way for viewers to feel like their hands are doing scratches and […]

Mobiquity Networks Adds New App Partner to its Publisher Network

Mobiquity Networks Adds New App Partner to its Publisher Network

Mobiquity Networks, a next generation location marketing and data insight company that operates a nationwide location‐based mobile advertising network of beacons, has partnered with a major weather related app to join its App Publisher Network. This app will add approximately 70 million US downloaded users to Mobiquity’s existing publisher network. The Mobiquity Publisher Network is […]

Uber Teams Up with Star Wars for Rogue One Promotion

Uber Teams Up with Star Wars for Rogue One Promotion

Uber is the latest tech firm to partner with Disney in promoting the new film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, replacing car images within the app with various Star Wars spaceships including the iconic X-Wing fighter. The promotion will run in hundreds of cities worldwide between 12 and 18 December on an opt-in basis, […]