Traditional hand-held tour guides may soon go the way of the dinosaur at museums. The Natural History Museum in London is one such museum that is exploring the use of mobile apps to give visitors a more personalized and relevant experience. More than 5.6 million people walk through the Natural History Museum’s doors each year […]
Online marketplace eBay is one of the first retailers to try Google’s AMP, which allows mobile sites to load as fast as possible on smartphones. eBay Inc. is making sure its mobile site not only loads fast, but loads instantly. The online marketplace recently updated some of its mobile pages with Google Inc.’s Accelerated Mobile […]
After designing, launching and analyzing their first virtual reality (VR) campaign, users are more inclined to look straight ahead and to the right, says mobile marketing platform StartApp. Based on a heat map of user eye movements, StartApp found that users spend more than 50% of their time inside the ad on the front and […]
The indie sock seller, Stance, in partnership with Zambezi, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes International Festival of Creativity, for its Star Wars sock line’s innovative online shopping experience. Stance had to compete with large name brands such as Target and Walmart, who were spending loads on promoting their own Star […]
The Sydney Opera House’s campaign #ComeOnIn, which was an attempt to attract visitors to come inside the building rather than simply viewing it from the outside, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The Sydney Opera House is the most Instagrammed spot in Australia, with over 8.2 million […]
Marketing firm, Kenshoo, has just become the first marketing technology provider to roll out full support for Google’s Expanded Text Ads (ETAs). When it launched in May, 45+ advertisers among the Internet Retailer Top 1000 began to deploy ETAs through Kenshoo. Since then, the company has served over 3.5m ETAs and 40% of weekly keyword […]
With users’ privacy in mind, Facebook is testing the ability to create one-to-one “secret conversations” in Messenger that will be end-to-end encrypted. Plus, Facebook is promising that these clandestine conversations can only be read on the mobile device of the intended receiver. “That means the messages are intended just for you and the other person […]
It’s no surprise that nonprofits operate on shoestring-sized budgets and are constantly working to recruit a new generation of millennial donors. But Water is Life, a charity focused on providing clean water resources, found an interesting way to hack the popular mobile payment app Venmo, which could open the floodgates to creative and stealthy digital […]
The Samsung Blind Cap, a swim cap that vibrates when swimmers get close to the wall to let them know that they need to turn, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Ever since blind swimming became a Paralympic sport over 50 years ago, coaches have been […]
The Straight Outta Compton mobile app, which allows users to modify the Straight Outta Compton Logo to fit their own hometown, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. To promote Universal Pictures‘ film about Dr. Dre’s life, Beats by Dre partnered with R/GA Hustle of Los Angeles […]