2016’s back-to-school shopping seems to have parents spending more on mobile—and more overall. According to the results of a survey released today by Rubicon project, more than a third of parents have already begun shopping for the fall, spending an average of $917 per child. Parents of college freshmen are spending even more than that—more […]
Augmented reality app Blippar believes its efforts to get people to use it for visual search, rather than searching through Google, should hit critical mass by early 2017 when it will have the ubiquity to appeal to more advertisers. It’s stopped short of saying how many users that equates to, though the app is already […]
At the Cannes Lions festival, Yahoo announced “Yahoo Tiles,” a new mobile ad format for the “post-tap world.” It offers 360-degree imagery and video on the Yahoo Gemini and BrightRoll ad platforms. Here’s the company’s description: Yahoo Tiles enables brands to tell visually compelling and immersive stories on mobile devices in a post-tap environment. When […]
AppLift — a mobile ad tech company — officially announced DataLift 360, which is hailed as the first platform to unify app advertising across the entire app lifecycle, from launch to growth and retention. According to a company statement, DataLift 360 enables mobile marketers to access and target desired users through seamless and unified connections […]
Yellow Pages has launched a new campaign promoting its revamped YP Dine app that highlights the internal battle between Canadians’ stomach, brain and heart when it comes to choosing what they want to eat. The digital campaign from Leo Burnett features claymation representations of the three organs bickering about their dining decisions, only to agree […]
Cancer Research UK scientists have launched a new app, Tumour Takedown, for smartphones and tablets that shows how some cancer treatments work. The new app, developed in collaboration with Centre of the Cell, was unveiled at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. It allows the public to test out three different cancer therapies on a […]
Beer brand Desperados, part of the Brau Union brewery group, has launched a vertical video campaign aimed specifically at mobile consumers, one of the first of its kind to be run in Europe. The campaign, developed by mobile ad tech firm YOC, centres around an understitial vertical video ads that enables a full screen display […]
Bank customers may soon be able to exchange money on social media on Facebook or Twitter. Following a trial in Singapore in 2017, the service would allow people to wire money by selecting their Facebook or Twitter account instead of entering a bank account number and sort code. The service will bring together 20 banks to allow […]
European consumer research by Tradedoubler has revealed the extent of cross-device shopping behaviour driven by the use of mobile phones, despite almost half (49 per cent) of consumers claiming they rarely or never make a purchase on mobile. The Tradedoubler Digital Connections Study was conducted in March by Arlington Research and questioned 4,493 consumers aged […]
Hundreds of millions of people are expected to watch the summer Olympics in August, but only users of Samsung phones with a paid TV subscription will have the chance to watch the tournament in virtual reality for the first time, NBC Sports announced on Thursday. The London summer Olympics in 2012 attracted 217 million viewers, […]