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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
New TripAdvisor Media Manager helps small and medium businesses reach a global audience
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Research from real-time personalisation platform Fresh Relevance has revealed the variety of channels and sources holidaymakers use to research and book their holidays, and their willingness to use social channels to do so. The “Digital Holidaymaker Trend Report,” which surveyed 2,000 UK holidaymakers in collaboration with Censuswide, indicates that 42 per cent are using review websites, such […]