This quarter’s report marks the four year anniversary of MoPub‘s Mobile Programmatic Trends Report (find the first report here). Since that time, the landscape for in-app mobile advertising, particularly through real-time bidding exchanges like MoPub Marketplace, has changed dramatically in terms of players, technology standards, and even platforms. On MoPub Marketplace alone, monthly ad impressions […]
South Carolina’s Darlington Raceway has teamed up with Coca-Cola Bottling Co and mobile fan experience technology firm Experience to create an audience engagement app that offers NASCAR fans a chance to win VIP experiences and more. NASCAR enthusiasts can download the app ahead of this Labor Day weekend to be in with a chance of […]
Ve Interactive, the leading data-driven technology company specializing in conversion enhancing technology and digital advertising, has acquired video advertising company Optomaton for the sum of €5.13M, in a deal comprised of cash and shares. Optomaton is a digital advertising technology and services company working across all aspects of programmatic media buying with a particular focus on […]
Instagram has been busy updating its features of late. Following up on the debut of Instagram ‘Stories’ and its new tool that enables users to zoom in while taking a video, comes the platform’s highly requested option that allows users to zoom in on photos and videos. This ‘pinch to zoom’ feature works on posts […]
It’s starting to look more and more likely we’ll someday tell our grandchildren bedtime stories about the strange boxes in our homes on which we watched videos. That’s because — and this really shouldn’t come as a surprise — Gen Z, which native advertising software firm Sharethrough defines as the generation born after 1995, likes […]
ClickBid, a leading provider in mobile bidding technology, has converted all of its credit card functionality to use Braintree hosted fields. Through it’s six year partnership with Braintree Payments (a PayPal company) ClickBid is able to offer end-to-end security of card data. Hosted fields provide a way to present payment forms directly from a PCI […]
The No. 1 most visited destination in the U.S. – known for innovative vacation experiences – unveiled another “first” for visitors today with the beta launch of a destination mobile app that uses WayBlazer’s IBM Watson-enabled technology. The new app taps Watson’s artificial intelligence to understand conversational language from users and offer personalized recommendations of […]
Imagine grabbing a tube of paint, dipping your brush in the black goop and gliding the brush across a canvas. Pretty normal, right? Now image that black goop is made entirely of air pollution emitted from vehicles across Asia, and you can actually use that polluted air to create a masterpiece. Tiger Beer, working alongside […]
If ever you’ve needed an incentive to exercise, a new app could give you a much-needed boost to get active. The British app Sweatcoin tracks your activity and pays you accordingly in its digital currency, which can be used to purchase physical trainers and exercise classes. For every 1,000 steps walked, users earn one sweatcoin (SWC). […]
Malibu is looking to capitalise on consumers’ “contactless payment behaviour” by turning 40,000 of its bottles into media platforms, offering consumers access to exclusive content simply by tapping their smartphone on the bottle. Malibu is using the same technology used for contactless payments to create 40,000 ‘connected’ bottles, allowing users with Android phones and the […]
