Brief: Pokemon Go creator Niantic has partnered with Japanese telecom SoftBank Group to turn 3,700 of the mobile carriers’ stores into PokeStops and PokeGyms in the Pokemon Go game. The move boosted SoftBank shares by 1.6% and Nintendo shares 3.3%, according to Bloomberg. McDonald’s Japan was the first brand to jump on the PokeStop bandwagon with a deal […]
(c)iStock.com/Petar Chernaev Mobile payments are exploding. With the number of users forecast to grow by 62% to almost a fifth of smartphone users in the US this year, according to eMarketer, the value of proximity mobile transactions is expected to surge to $27bn in 2016. The boom has been a long time coming. But now […]
Mobile-first marketing automation and loyalty platform SessionM announced a $35 million strategic growth investment round of Series D funding last week, furthering its efforts in the mobile CRM space. The funding round was led by General Atlantic, Salesforce Ventures, Causeway Media Partners, Charles River Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. […]
Keettoo, a free Android-based mobile app which is giving a slice of mobile advertising revenue to its users, has enrolled as many as 100 large and medium-sized companies, and said that the app will soon be available on iOS and Windows platforms. “We have now over 100 advertisers across sectors that include automobile, hospitality and […]
Nine has extended a partnership with one of Australia’s newest ad tech players to deliver a mobile programmatic offering it hopes will revolutionise small screen advertising. Playground XYZ, which launched last November promising it would shake-up mobile advertising, has been given the green light to bring new ad formats, including Super Skin, Side Push, and […]
Let’s go beyond a summary of the new iPhone 7 features and look at something that Apple does just as creatively as phones: live streaming. Apple’s live streamed product launch reeled in tremendous amounts of activity on social media and generated a considerable amount of excitement through various digital channels. The viewer adherence as well […]
CREDIT: Getty Images Snapchat’s messages may disappear, but the company’s advertising dollars are starting to pile up. The Los Angeles startup is nearly on pace to cross $1 billion in annual revenue by the end of next year, according to a forecast released Monday. By selling video ads, sponsored geo-filters and sponsored augmented-reality lenses, Snapchat […]
Image Credit: Shutterstock MediaBrix, a mobile advertising startup that says it creates “emotionally targeted brand connections,” that it scored a $6.5 million investment led by Edison Partners. “With this funding, we will continue to ramp our programmatic offerings, invest in R&D and expand our data sciences team focused on consumer receptivity,” said MediaBrix CEO and […]
Visitors to London can now gain access to more than 60 attractions using just their smartphone with the new mobile version of the popular London Pass sightseeing card. Developed for iPhone and Android, the mobile London Pass downloads straight to the traveller’s smartphone, syncing with a dedicated app and bespoke operating software to function as […]
Mobvista, Asia’s largest and fastest-growing mobile ad tech company, announced its earnings report for the first half of 2016. Mobvista’s H1 revenue of $118.174 million and net profit of $11.525 million surpassed the full-year results of 2015. Mobvista ranks first among all the mobile marketing companies listed on China’s National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ) in […]