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, 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, 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 […]
American Eagle Outfitters has used Snapchat Spectacles in Hong Kong, despite the product not having launched there, as part of a video-led campaign. The #WeAllCan campaign, by TBWA in Hong Kong, is primarily an influencer campaign that used the new technology to film first person point of view shots to give a more authentic look […]
Now days with video games and gadgets demanding screen time, the art of the children’s book has been lost in the mobile era, specifically around the holiday season. With this in mind, and just in time for this holiday season, AKQA launched its 2016 holiday card The Snow Fox – a children’s story that comes to […]
Gameloft Advertising Solutions announced that it has partnered with Moat, a SaaS analytics and intelligence company focused on building products for brand advertisers and premium publishers, to offer trusted third party measurement and the ability to transact on viewable impressions delivered through the Gameloft mobile advertising network. Used by the world’s top publishers and advertisers, […]
A recent Mobile Marketing Association report, titled “How Marketers Are Using Location Data – And the Road Ahead” found that the majority of marketers see location data as a key component of mobile advertising. Forty-six percent of marketers and 47 percent of agencies believe location data is critical, and an additional 50 percent of marketers and 43 […]
Retail performance mobile marketing expert Fidzup recently announced it raised $3.7 million in a new funding round with venture capitalists Cap Horn, Turenne Capital and existing investors. The Paris-based company brings mobile programmatic advertising to physical stores. “All of the big players in the app-tech industry have built their platforms to optimize and measure how […]
Marketron, the leading provider of business software solutions and services for the media industry, announced a strategic partnership with location intelligence company Cuebiq for use of its real-time foot traffic attribution offering, VisitQ Real-Time, for advertising campaigns Marketron is running for its media partners. “With over 90% of retail transactions occurring offline in the physical […]
The chat war for business customers just got hotter as Facebook announced that it has launched a platform for Facebook Workplace, a product with many of the same features as Facebook but for internal company communication. Businesses will now be able to pull into Facebook Workplace software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, customer relationship management (CRM) software, and […]