In collaboration with Surf Life Saving Australia, Samsung Electronics Australia has recently launched and piloted Pocket Patrol – an Augmented Reality (AR) mobile app developed with Leo Burnett Sydney, that uses technology to help raise awareness of the number one hazard on Australia’s beaches, rips. The pilot program for Pocket Patrol took place from October 22 […]
Campaigns from the length and breadth of the EMEA region were winners at last nights MMA EMEA Smarties Awards. The variety, diversity and geographical span were the widest yet, with entries received from all parts of the region. Whilst the UK, and Turkey were well represented, there were winning entries from Russia, Germany, France, the […]
Online advertising spend grew 13.4% to €18.6bn for the first half of 2016, with mobile display and mobile search the key drivers, according to new research. The AdEx Benchmark H1 2016 study, from IAB Europe, in collaboration with IHS Markit, indicates that the €18.6bn spent on online advertising is up from from €16.4bn in H1 […]
eMarketer predicts Indonesia will have the highest rate of mobile phone user growth in Asia-Pacific in 2016 and continue to lead the region by that measure through at least 2020. But marketers hoping to connect with this burgeoning audience face an audience with lackluster enthusiasm for most mobile advertising. According to an October 2016 survey by […]
The latest Nielsen Digital Ad report looks at mobile ad performance, its connection to female users and trends to watch as the market continues to grow. The latest data examines the challenges in reaching the right consumers and exploring how successful mobile ads in the U.S. are reaching their intended audience, as well as trends […]
In the past 10 years, the volume of media consumed on mobile devices has grown rapidly, but marketers’ uptake of mobile advertising has been relatively slow by comparison. That’s partly because of limitations around the ability to accurately target consumers on mobile devices, marketers say. According to research by Nielsen, those targeting challenges could be […]
The cost of display advertising inventory bought using programmatic buying technologies will rise sharply by as much as 20% across North America by 2018 due to publishers taking advantage of improved yield optimization technologies, according to a study. Publishers’s continued adoption of header bidding, a generic shift from fixed CPMs to more dynamic pricing models […]
Instagram has added two new features, pushing it even closer to Snapchat by introducing disappearing photos and videos. It’s an add-on to Instagram Direct, the app’s direct messaging function. Users will have the option of sending photos and videos taken with the in-app camera which are deleted after two views. If the recipient replays the […]
Rather than use its mobile app to sell football boots to as many people as possible, Adidas is only letting those with a special code make purchases, much like the early Uber model where growth comes from consumer referrals. Going beyond the idea of “influencers” being a single and distinct group of people sits at […]
Facebook has confirmed that it will be winding down the ad serving portion of Atlas – less than two months after moving the platform from its ad tech division to the ‘marketing sciences’ measurement business. Founded in 2001, Atlas was acquired by Facebook in 2013 from Microsoft – which originally picked up the platform as part […]