Music streaming service Spotify and Rubicon Project, an online advertising technology firm which helps clients optimise ad revenue, have collaborated to roll out multiple audio advertising campaigns in the APAC region. The programmatic audio campaigns have been executed in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. Spotify’s audio inventory is being traded via private marketplaces […]
Bacardi is employing Instagram Stories to let consumers play interactive DJ, representing a truly new kind of musical experience on the 4-month-old feature. Working with agency BBDO and Facebook’s Creative Shop, the liquor brand’s global chief creative for culture, Swizz Beatz, has concocted a way for viewers to feel like their hands are doing scratches and […]
China is, by a sizable margin, the world’s fastest growing mobile advertising market. The east Asian giant saw mobile ad spend rise 931% in Q2 2016 over 2015, according to data from mobile ad platform Smaato. This compares to an overall rise in mobile ad spending increasing 103% globally. Other notable jumps were seen in […]
Most people know Google Chrome‘s incognito mode for removing any trace of their web history—or for avoiding retargeted digital ads that track their whereabouts. But Bacardi found a clever little hack around private web browsing that it’s turning into a campaign targeting millennials. The brand and BBDO New York partnered with electronic music artist Goldroom—also […]
Virgin America has just launched its app, and along with the usual flight booking, online check-in and digital boarding pass features, the smartphone app links to curated playlists on Spotify, themed around your destination. The playlists span a wide range of genres, with most cities boasting multiple choices, so for New York you can either […]
Don’t be surprised if the Spotify ads you hear start to match the vibe of your playlists. The music streaming service announced today it will start offering programmatic advertising for the 70 million people using the free version of its platform. The Swedish company launched private marketplaces in partnership with AppNexus, Rubicon Project and The […]
Twitter has invested £50m in Berlin-based music streaming service SoundCloud, after walking away from an acquisition deal in 2014. According to Re/code, Twitter’s investment is part of a bigger £70m round, which would value the streaming service at around £500m. Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, confirmed the deal to the publication. “Earlier this year we […]
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 […]
Music streaming service Spotify has introduced a new marketing feature, enabling brands to sponsor the 400-plus playlists the company curates, reaching and engaging target audiences through the passion point of music. The feature was unveiled with Kia Motors sponsoring the New Music Friday playlist to introduce its new Kia Sportage model. Through the sponsorship, Kia […]
Spotify is expanding its video offering with the launch of 12 original series in the UK, US, Germany and Sweden. The streaming app isn’t straying too far from its roots, though, at least initially. The first wave of series will all revolve all around music in some way, including music history documentary “Landmark”, hip-hop concert […]