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 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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Facebook is giving users the ability to upload videos into comments and replies on posts and status updates. The project was thought up during the company’s 50th Hackathon earlier this year, which brings staff together for a day to come up with new ideas. Users can now upload videos as replies to posts by people […]
A top British entrepreneur thinks he’s solved the problem of our over-stretched NHS – a personal robot doctor you can access with the click of a button. Ali Parsa, founder of the Babylon health app, claims his new device is safer than visiting a doctor or nurse when you’re worried about any undiagnosed symptoms. Babylon is being […]