It’s National App Day (and time to rethink app advertising)

By Alex Springer, Director, Sales and Solutions Architects, Impact EMEA

It’s National App Day (and time to rethink app advertising)

Happy National App Day—that traditional time of year when we pause (briefly, between swipes) to reflect on just how much the world and its purchases have gone mobile. For everything from entertainment to fitness to fertility, we now look to apps to meet our most basic needs.  We spend 87% of our mobile time in-app, and when we […]

Gismart invests $500,000 in music-making company Jambl

Gismart invests $500,000 in music-making company Jambl

Gismart, a leading developer and publisher of entertainment-focused apps and games, today announced a $500,000 investment into Jambl, a Berlin-based music startup aspiring to become the largest social media platform for beat making music creators. The investment has been made within the framework of Gismart’s recently announced investment programme for talented teams with promising mobile […]

Spotify Launches Wrapped Campaign, Digs into Past Decade of Music and Podcasts

Spotify Launches Wrapped Campaign, Digs into Past Decade of Music and Podcasts

People around the world have come to anticipate Spotify Wrapped as a chance to remember the cultural moments, the streaming trends and the memes that have kept society in sync over the last 12 months. While this year’s campaign will hold true to that sentiment, Spotify is turning it up and closing the decade at […]

The BBC’s Own It app aims to support children’s emotional wellbeing and resilience online

The BBC’s Own It app aims to support children’s emotional wellbeing and resilience online

Young people getting their first phone have a new way to help them have a happier, healthier, more positive life online, with the new BBC Own It app. Aimed at supporting children’s emotional wellbeing and resilience online, the app is a first-of-its-kind in empowering – rather than monitoring – children aged 8-13 years with their […]

Prostate Cancer UK Sees Spike In Online Giving After Transforming Digital Donation Journey

Prostate Cancer UK Sees Spike In Online Giving After Transforming Digital Donation Journey

Prostate Cancer UK is enjoying an increase in donations following a recent overhaul of its online donor journey and payment options. The leading men’s health charity made changes to its online giving journeys using the goDonate platform from strategic creative agency WPNC. Honed following years of user testing and excellent campaign results – with learnings fed back into the platform’s […]

TripAdvisor Launches its First Self-Service Advertising Platform

New TripAdvisor Media Manager helps small and medium businesses reach a global audience

TripAdvisor Launches its First Self-Service Advertising Platform

TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel platform, today launched TripAdvisor Media Manager – a self-service platform that empowers small and medium sized businesses and agencies to control their own cross-platform advertising campaigns on TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor Media Manager is available to global advertisers, supporting more than 15 currencies, and offers a wide variety of targeting options to reach […]

Sound business for Costcutter – selects TabMo to add audio to mobile advertising campaigns

Sound business for Costcutter – selects TabMo to add audio to mobile advertising campaigns

Costcutter Supermarkets Group (CSG) has notched up another first in the UK convenience sector by using audio messaging to drive store visits.   Joining forces with mobile adtech firm, TabMo, CSG has responded to the increasing use of voice-enabled devices and music streaming apps, by adding sound to its extensive programme of mobile advertising for retailers.  […]

New Research Finds Consumers Are 35x More Likely To Open Mobile Messages Than Emails

New Research Finds Consumers Are 35x More Likely To Open Mobile Messages Than Emails

Consumers welcome many types of personalized mobile messages from businesses, and they are 35x more likely to open mobile messages than emails, reports a new global study from Sinch. Despite this, businesses have been slow to provide the type of high-value, real-time messaging that consumers prefer most. The Sinch Mobile Consumer Engagement 2020 report uncovers […]

YouAppi highlights the big digital commerce opportunities in Southeast Asia before (and beyond) Christmas

YouAppi highlights the big digital commerce opportunities in Southeast Asia before (and beyond) Christmas

With Southeast Asians among the heaviest users of their smartphones – data from Hootsuite showing that three of the four countries with the most time spent using the mobile Internet are Thailand (5 hours and 13 minutes), Philippines (4:58) and Indonesia (4:35) versus a worldwide average (3:14), US (2:24) and the UK (2:09) – the […]

Samsung and IBM team up on 5G and AI-powered safety platform

Samsung and IBM team up on 5G and AI-powered safety platform

Samsung Electronics and IBM announced at the Samsung Developer Conference, a new joint platform leveraging IBM Cloud and AI capabilities, and Samsung’s mobile offerings. The collaboration between the two companies brings together IBM’s capabilities with the Samsung Galaxy ecosystem for today’s enterprise customers. “The mobile industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation and opening up new […]