L’Oréal’s Kérastase and Withings Partner to Create Smart Hairbrush

L’Oréal’s Kérastase and Withings Partner to Create Smart Hairbrush

L’Oréal-owned Kérastase has partnered with Nokia’s digital health firm, Withings, to create a smart hairbrush. The brush features sensors that score the quality of hair and monitor the effects of different hair care routines. The brush is accompanied by a mobile app to provide additional insights. The brush, made in collaboration with L’Oréal’s research and […]

Spotify and Rubicon Project Roll Out Programmatic Audio Campaigns in APAC

Spotify and Rubicon Project Roll Out Programmatic Audio Campaigns in APAC

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 […]

BBC Worldwide brings viewers closer to Planet Earth II series using augmented reality

BBC Worldwide brings viewers closer to Planet Earth II series using augmented reality

BBC Worldwide has partnered with visual discovery platform Blippar to let people find out more about the content in the Planet Earth II series using augmented reality. The Planet Earth II series has been a runaway success in the UK, where it debuted, but also in key markets for BBC Worldwide internationally, such as Singapore […]

Sky Sports Introduces Jeff Stelling-inspired Chatbot

Sky Sports Introduces Jeff Stelling-inspired Chatbot

Sky Sports has teamed up with GameOn, a mobile engagement platform for sports fans, to create a chatbot to accompany its popular Soccer Saturday broadcast. The ‘Jeff Bot’, named after the legendary long time host of the Sky’s Gillette Soccer Saturday show Jeff Stelling, is available through Messenger, Slack, Skype and Telegram. It features real-time […]

BWS gives customers real-time mobile rewards using optical recognition

BWS gives customers real-time mobile rewards using optical recognition

Liquor retailer, BWS, has joined forces with mobile marketing company, Shopitize, to launch a new beer campaign rewarding customers in real time for their purchases. The Beer Bank promotion sees consumers receive a $5 digital voucher on their smartphone and in real time every time they purchase a carton of beer. The campaign uses Shopitize’s […]

UK Consumers Using Mobile More Than Ever in Run-up to Christmas

UK Consumers Using Mobile More Than Ever in Run-up to Christmas

In the run-up to Christmas 2016, average mobile traffic has seen an increase of 26 per cent compared to 2015 year-on-year. Since Black Friday, 68 per cent of all online retail traffic has come through mobile and tablets. According to research from Salmon, this mirrors Black Friday – where for the first time mobile overtook […]

Warc Toolkit: Artificial Intelligence to impact the marketing industry in 2017

Warc Toolkit: Artificial Intelligence to impact the marketing industry in 2017

Warc, the global marketing intelligence service, concludes that Artificial Intelligence (AI), defined as the ability of computers to take on tasks that have previously required human intelligence to complete – such as speech recognition or interpreting data – will have a major impact on the marketing industry in 2017. David Tiltman, Warc’s Head of Content, […]

Mobiquity Networks Adds New App Partner to its Publisher Network

Mobiquity Networks Adds New App Partner to its Publisher Network

Mobiquity Networks, a next generation location marketing and data insight company that operates a nationwide location‐based mobile advertising network of beacons, has partnered with a major weather related app to join its App Publisher Network. This app will add approximately 70 million US downloaded users to Mobiquity’s existing publisher network. The Mobiquity Publisher Network is […]