Amazon is reportedly looking to bring its Amazon Go chain of checkout-free, mobile-powered convenience stores to airports, according to Reuters. The report, which cites public records and a person familiar with the strategy, claims that the eCommerce giant is targeting busy travellers as a key audience in its expansion into bricks-and-mortar retail. Amazon has opened seven […]
betconnect, the world’s first social betting platform, announced its partnership with Prefinery – a US based technology firm whose software builds pre-launch waiting lists. Using the software, betconnect has already attracted an overwhelming amount of soon-to-be users. Due to launch in January 2019, betconnect is the first notable application of disruptive technology in the industry since Betfair […]
LIFEWTR and Marriott Hotels announced a collaboration to bring more inspiration into the world through art and innovation, featuring the debut of a new augmented reality (AR) in-room guest experience. As part of PepsiCo and Marriott International’s recent partnership renewal, LIFEWTR, the premium bottled water that exists to advance and showcase sources of art and creativity, is now […]
Customer engagement company Urban Airship and Vue Entertainment, part of Vue International, one of the world’s largest cinema operators, unveiled the U.K.’s first Google Pay movie tickets. Now Vue movie-goers at over 30 of its paperless sites — not just its app users — can add film tickets to Google Pay and skip the box office to head […]
Mobile Posse, the technology innovator that turns telecom companies into mobile media leaders, announced that United Press International (UPI) has leveraged Firstly Mobile, Mobile Posse’s next-gen content discovery platform distributed through wireless carriers and smartphone OEMs, to drive higher mobile user engagement. UPI, a leading provider of news and photos to millions of readers around […]
India now has a true competitor to the likes of Spotify and Apple Music following the merger of Reliance Jio’s music service with Saavn. Earlier in 2018, Reliance Industries acquired over-the-top platform Saavn. At the time, it was announced that JioMusic would eventually be integrated with Saavn to form a combined platform worth $1bn – […]
Programmatic adoption is poised to grow to 52% in the next 24 months, according to research by Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and GroupM. The report titled ‘Mobile Ecosystem and ad-Sizing Report’ 2018 further highlights that the propensity for programmatic guaranteed is increasing in India and the penetration is set to grow from 6% to 17% […]
As part of Xbox’s recently-launched ‘Jump in’ campaign, 215McCann developed social shopping carousels to mimic shopping ads. These ‘ads’ contain a series of sneakers, fashion and consumer electronics but are actually fictional in-game items for some of this year’s most popular games available on Xbox. For example, a collection of shoes targeted to ‘sneaker heads’ […]
Deezer Brand Solutions, the ad-sales house of global music streaming service, Deezer, has launched mobile programmatic audio advertising for its free users through a new partnership with Triton Digital, the leading technology and services provider to the global audio industry. The new partnership will significantly improve advertising efficiency and will bring more value for both […]
Mobiquity Technologies, a leader in advertising technology and mobile location data intelligence, announced the release of a new proprietary points of interest (POI) database. The new POI database creates the largest location dataset containing all commercial buildings, entertainment and sporting venues with over 5.5 million precise location polygons representing over 4,000 different retail chains across […]