MAGNA, the intelligence, investment and innovation unit within IPG Mediabrands, and IPG Media Lab, their creative technology arm, in partnership with Twitter announced the results of a scientific media trial examining the location of video ads within a social environment. The resulting report, The Art of the Takeover: Optimizing What Consumers See First, reveals best practices for in-feed advertising as […]
comScore announced that key campaign delivery metrics for Twitter ads – including demographics, reach, frequency and GRPs – will be available in validated Campaign Essentials (vCE), its flagship campaign measurement offering. Reporting for US campaigns will soon include measurement of Twitter ads that run on mobile devices. Reporting will also be available for Spain, Canada and UK […]
Twitter is considering launching a paid subscription service, aimed at ‘power users’ such as marketers and journalists. The plans were revealed when Twitter starting surveying users about their interest in a premium version, which would essentially be an expanded version of TweetDeck, the Twitter dashboard app acquired by the company for a reported $40m (£32m) […]
McDonald’s is literally giving away its secret sauce, with the food giant poised to hand out 10,000 bottles of its world-famous Big Mac Special Sauce for the first time ever. Limited free bottles of the savoury condiment will be available in dozens of locations across the US. Customers can find out where there closest bottles […]
Twitter has introduced a new way of connecting to user accounts on its service: QR codes. Users can generate a QR code within the app, including their choice of profile picture. When another user scans the code – either using the device camera or by choosing a screenshot with it in – it links directly to the account […]
Twitter ‘s Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain is stepping down after six years at the helm, adding more uncertainty to the struggling tech firm’s murky future. Anthony Noto, Twitter’s chief financial officer, will take over Bain’s job, according to a regulatory filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. Twitter is searching for a […]
Brands can now make use of chatbots on Twitter to improve their customer service. Pizza Hut, Spotify, Tesco, Norton and Airbnb are among the first to begin using the service. Twitter is launching two new products to answer basic questions. Brands can set up welcome messages to help “demonstrate their commitment to service”. Advertisers can […]
Twitter is pushing further into one of the most lucrative segments of the mobile ad economy. The social network announced September 22 that it is now letting advertisers run native app-install advertising campaigns across a host of different apps through the platform’s third-party partnership network. Like other types of native ads, the network will shoehorn promotions […]
Snapchat’s chief strategy officer Imran Khan has taken a swipe at rival publishers that play video ads without sound. Speaking at Dmexco in Germany today (14 October), he said that Snapchat’s “passion about sound” is what makes it stand out. He claimed two-thirds of the ads on its site are played with sound and that if advertisers […]
App features 20,000+ new and unique emoji, & seamless integration within iOS 10 A new app for designing and texting with emoji, called Amojee, has just launched in the United States for iPhone and Android. The app features dozens of new and funny emoji of celebrities, flirting, and other inspired characters. The new app will […]