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 […]
Music streaming service Spotify has begun serving vertical video ads using its new format ‘Branded Moments’, which launched in beta in October. Like a number of the service’s other ad format, Branded Moments offers users 30 minutes of commercial-free listening afterwards, but Branded Moments is the first video unit from the streaming firm to use […]
Ad tech firm The Trade Desk has partnered with Spotify, Triton Digital and AdsWizz in order to bring fully programmatic digital audio inventory to its customer base. With more consumers than ever before accessing streaming audio via their mobile device, digital audio is a growing channel for advertisers, and programmatic buying can give marketers access […]
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 […]
As ecommerce sales continue their meteoric growth, mobile is grabbing a larger market share, with smartphone-enabled purchases set to grow from $122 billion in 2015 to nearly $319 billion by 2020, according to a new report from Javelin. A greater number of overall ecommerce purchases will come from smartphones, per Javelin’s estimate that mcommerce purchases […]
Facebook has merged two of its most treasured efforts: Instant Articles and Messenger. Soon, Messenger users will begin to see a lightning bolt on the top right corner of select links shared in the popular app. These indicate that the link is an Instant Article. “Currently, links shared via Messenger load in a mobile browser, […]
Mobile dating app Bumble has expanded into a professional networking platform after adding a new section called BumbleBizz. The changes incorporate the swiping system often used on dating apps such as Tinder and Bumble and will allow users interested in building business connections to see potential matches. In what appears to be a more causal […]
As the battle for drivers continues to heat up, on-demand car services are tacking on more benefits to build up their army. Today, Uber is taking that one step further with the launch of Pandora music on its driver app. Drivers now have an alternative to traditional radio and are able to enjoy personalized music, […]
A former BT executive is urging phone users to hang up on his old employer as he launches the first free mobile service in the UK. American Stephen Stokols, BT’s former vice-president of strategy and business development, launched his start-up FreedomPop several years ago in the US, where it already has one million subscribers. The […]