Ad spend on the major social networks rose by 40 per cent between Q2 and Q3 2016, according to the Q3 2016 Social Trends Report from Kinetic. The report looks at ad spend on all campaigns that ran through Kinetic Social’s social marketing platform, serving over 2.75bn impressions in Q3 2016. This report includes ad […]
Brands can now make use of chatbots on Twitter to improve their customer service. Pizza Hut, Spotify, Tesco, Norton and Airbnb are among the first to begin using the service. Twitter is launching two new products to answer basic questions. Brands can set up welcome messages to help “demonstrate their commitment to service”. Advertisers can […]
Facebook’s booming mobile ad revenue is projected to continue growing through 2016 well into 2018 despite some setbacks in 2016 regarding how it measures video views. In 2016, Facebook will raise around $21.98bn from mobile ads. 2017 will see a year-over-year increase of 35.2% to $29.71 and in 2018, $37.98bn, up 7.8%. Increasingly more of […]
SYZYGY, a full service-digital agency, partially owned by WPP, released the results of a new survey that found adult Millennials are 16% more narcissistic than other generations and remain narcissistic as they age. Given that Millennials now represent the core mainstream adult consumer, spending some $200 billion each year in the U.S., marketers are searching […]
Manchester Airport is turning to social media in a bid to lure high flying Chinese tourists to the north west of England by signing up to the far east equivalents of Twitter and Whatsapp. The social media push dovetails with the launch of direct flights between Beijing and Manchester by Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines in […]
R/GA London, the company for the Connected Age, is working with the Unilever oral care brand, Signal Pepsodent, to drive worldwide behavioural change in just 21 days with a free service which encourages parents and children to brush their teeth together and develop good brushing habits for life. “Little Brush, Big Brush” is one of […]
Facebook’s newest batch of tools is designed, in part, to help fill any weekend night voids on its users’ calendars — whether it’s with a night on the town or a pizza delivery. “It’s Friday night. You don’t have plans. I’ve got a babysitter ready to go. What do I do?” said Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, […]
Taptica, a global end-to-end mobile advertising platform that helps the world’s top brands reach their most valuable users with the widest range of traffic sources available, announced that Codoon, the largest sports social platform, has engaged Taptica for its Facebook social offering to drive qualified user installs in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and more […]
The worst moment of your adolescent life may have been the year that you were told you were too old to go trick-or-treating. (Just ask my 13-year-old son!) Hershey’s TAKE5 helps adults get back into the trick-or-treating game with Take or Treat, a mobile site that lets people knock on their phone for free candy. […]
Snap’s general manager in the UK, Claire Valoti, made her first public appearance at IAB’s Engage event in London equipped with some new demographic data on UK users, according to The Drum. The company announced that 77% of users in the UK are over the age of 18. This is good because it means that most of Snapchat’s […]