Former BT man brings ‘Spotify for mobile’ to the UK

Former BT man brings ‘Spotify for mobile’ to the UK

A former BT executive is urging phone users to hang up on his old employer as he launches the first free mobile service in the UK. American Stephen Stokols, BT’s former vice-president of strategy and business development, launched his start-up FreedomPop several years ago in the US, where it already has one million subscribers. The […]

Taco Bell unwraps real-time location data to serve relevant mobile messaging

Taco Bell unwraps real-time location data to serve relevant mobile messaging

Taco Bell is one of the brands leveraging xAd’s new MarketPlace Discovery platform to gain more insight into customers’ foot traffic behaviors, exhibiting the importance of tapping real-time data to serve consumers the right message at the right time. Taco Bell is using the real-time mobile location intelligence platform to uncover time-of-day as well as […]

Facebook doubles-down on efforts to woo retailers with more tools to prove mobile ads impact in-store sales

Facebook doubles-down on efforts to woo retailers with more tools to prove mobile ads impact in-store sales

Facebook has revealed new tools it promises will help retailers understand if mobile ads get people to go into stores and if they are buying as it looks to cement itself as the platform of choice for brands wanting to measure online ads against offline sales metrics. The update announced yesterday revealed new metrics that will […]

Facebook will be ‘all video’ in five years, says Nicola Mendelsohn

Facebook will be ‘all video’ in five years, says Nicola Mendelsohn

With the decline in text and increase in sharing through pictures and video, Facebook’s EMEA vice president Nicola Mendelsohn said she would put money on Facebook becoming “all video over the next five years”. Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women International Summit today  Mendelsohn also noted the importance of virtual reality and the rise […]

Snapchat gets serious about advertising as it unveils API, ad tech partners and plans to show branded content in-between Stories

Snapchat gets serious about advertising as it unveils API, ad tech partners and plans to show branded content in-between Stories

Snapchat has introduced a raft of new features as it looks to bulk up its advertising offering and become a go-to destination for brands. The messaging app has been on the charm-offensive for a slice of marketers’ budgets for the past year and now it has unveiled three updates designed make it easier for companies […]

Wochit CEO: Euro 2016 Last International Football Tournament Exclusively on TV

Wochit CEO: Euro 2016 Last International Football Tournament Exclusively on TV

With the Euro 2016 currently on in way in France, Wochit co-founder & CEO Dror Ginzberg argues that this might be the last major international football tournament to be aired exclusively on television. “UEFA auctioned the television rights to Euro 2016 for a record total of £782m across 230 territories a number of years ago before the fragment of sports […]

MTV uses Twitter to gauge how well it’s doing on Snapchat

MTV uses Twitter to gauge how well it’s doing on Snapchat

Publishers are out to crack the code on how effective their Snapchat photos and videos are, and some are leaning on Twitter for insights. At a panel organised by Northside Festival this week, MTV execs talked about how the publisher is programming short-form content for the mobile app geared toward millennials. MTV is one of […]

‘Dark Social’ Dominates UK Mobile Sharing

‘Dark Social’ Dominates UK Mobile Sharing

The way Britons share and interact with online content on smartphones is dominated by so-called ‘Dark Social’ channels, such as email, text and instant messaging, rather than public social networks. According to a new study by marketing technology experts, RadiumOne, over three-quarters of publishers’ or marketers’ content shared via mobile phones takes place via private […]