Emogi Unlocks Mobile Messaging for Brands

Emogi Unlocks Mobile Messaging for Brands

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 […]

Global mobile ad revenue soared to €37bn last year

Global mobile ad revenue soared to €37bn last year

Mobile advertising growth continues to accelerate and increased 68.2% to €37bn ($49bn) in 2015 from €22bn ($29bn) in 2014, driven by a mobile first consumer world and improving marketing technologies, according to new research. The findings, from IAB Europe and IHS revealed that mobile display continues to outpace search and grew by an exponential 92.6% […]

Tinder’s newest app, Tinder Stacks, lets you swipe on anything

Tinder’s newest app, Tinder Stacks, lets you swipe on anything

Tinder today is launching a new application for social polling. The company announced the debut of “Tinder Stacks,” an app for iMessage users that will let you use the “swipe to like” gesture the dating app popularized for anything you want – whether that’s polling your friends which photo should be your new profile picture, […]

MMA Launches New Chapter In Germany, 5th Biggest Mobile Ad Spend Market

MMA Launches New Chapter In Germany, 5th Biggest Mobile Ad Spend Market

The MMA Germany launches with experts and expertise from founding member companies including: adsquare, Coca-Cola, Facebook, Google, SAP XM, Smaato, Telefónica and Unilever. Germany is a powerhouse market for mobile marketing growth, investment and interest, where mobile ad spending is forecast to exceed $2.56 billion, or EUR2.27 billion. The MMA Germany will kick off its […]

McDonald’s Japan Combines Consumer Micro-Moments with the Weather

McDonald’s Japan Combines Consumer Micro-Moments with the Weather

McDonald’s Japan rolled out a campaign using from the Weather category’s Weather Index when it launched a customizable menu that offered many burger variations. Using sales data from the company’s nationwide network of restaurants, together with weather data, McDonald’s Japan was able to analyze in real time when and where products were selling well, and […]

Let the games begin: President Donald ‘Jrump’ heads for outer space in new mobile app

Let the games begin: President Donald ‘Jrump’ heads for outer space in new mobile app

A future US president who looks (and talks) suspiciously like Donald Trump and triggers Armageddon on Earth stars in a caustic new mobile game app. Once the Earth is in flames in the game, President “Jrump” must colonise other worlds to “make the galaxy great again.” He needs to climb walls the player must build […]

#DMEXCO2016 – WPP’s Reading Room

#DMEXCO2016 – WPP’s Reading Room

Background: DMEXCO – a local German advertising technology expo or another international ‘must attend’ event for the diary? That debate will continue but both the usual global media suspects and local German players showed up for this year’s biggest European advertising technology show. Details and Implications: Rise of the machines: Technology is the driving force […]

Viamedia Launches Advanced Multi-Screen Mobile Ad Innovation for Audience and Impression-Based Selling

Viamedia Launches Advanced Multi-Screen Mobile Ad Innovation for Audience and Impression-Based Selling

Viamedia, the television industry’s largest independent cable TV ad management company, today announced an advanced mobile advertising innovation, AdMessenger Tap-To-Expand, the latest addition to the company’s growing roster of cutting-edge cross-platform ad solutions to reach any viewer on every screen. AdMessenger “Tap-to-Expand” is designed to reach consumers with an easily updated, geo-targeted, offer specific, custom-scrolling […]