TubeMogul has been selected as the preferred programmatic platform partner for brand advertising in Australia by multinational distilled beverage manufacturer, Pernod Ricard. Pernod, which previously used Vizeum for all of their programmatic buys, will now use TubeMogul’s automated software platform to plan, buy, measure and optimise their Australian brand advertising and manage the entire process […]
Mastercard is about to start letting customers in the UK and Europe pay for goods online by using their face instead of a password. Having already been trialled in the US and Canada, the service, called Identity Check Mobile, asks for customers to pose for a photograph of their face to authenticate online purchases. Shoppers […]
By Mary Ku, Director of Product Management Facebook is where people connect, and in recent years more people have been using Facebook to connect in another way: buying and selling with each other. This activity started in Facebook Groups and has grown substantially. More than 450 million people visit buy and sell groups each month — […]
Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Facebook is already dominant in mobile advertising, and the company has the opportunity to become even more so through its messaging services — What’s App and Facebook Messenger. The company sees natural fits for brands on its messenger apps, Facebook executives said during a press question-and-answer session during […]
As Margaret Gould Stewart explains it, when it comes to mobile ad experiences, Facebook views user sentiment and trust the same way it might look at a natural resource: don’t use it up. At the TAP Conference today, Gould Stewart, VP of Product Design at Facebook, laid out how the social network thinks about mobile […]
Mobile messaging app Line has announced a series of new features that will give businesses and developers the ability to create chatbots. As well as creating new technology and opening up to the developer community via a new messaging API, Line will be actively encouraging people to build valuable chatbots via a financial reward. The […]
Baidu Inc, the Chinese language internet search provider, has announced that it is the lead investor in a new $60 million Brazil-based investment fund called Easterly Ventures, as per a company statement today. Funding for Brazilian Tech Startups Easterly Ventures will focus on providing funding, technology, local traffic and industry expertise for Brazilian tech startups, with […]
SITO Mobile, a leading mobile engagement platform, announces a data and product development partnership with Blue Bite, a top cloud-based IoT platform company. SITO Mobile’s Marketing Platform provides advertisers access to more than 98% of U.S. mobile consumers via 200,000 of the world’s most popular apps to present consumers with digital display and video ads. […]
Google has been focusing for years now on finding better ways to track and measure ads as we switch from one device to another to consume media like TV, music or written articles like this one. And now, to coincide with Ad Week in New York this week, Google is revealing its latest […]
Emogi today announced the launch of Wink, the world’s first platform for mobile messaging empowering brands to join the conversation through branded emojis, stickers and GIFs. With Wink, marketers are able to leverage the native keyboard to deliver content, without requiring consumers to download a separate emoji keyboard, app or sticker pack. Popular chat platform […]