Firefly officially launched out of beta on December 6, with a new approach to spur business and revenue by connecting brands, rideshare drivers, and local city governments. The company, which operates a first of its kind network of “situationally aware” digital smart screens mounted to existing rideshare vehicles, is already proving to be a […]
Mobiquity Technologies, a leader in advertising technology and mobile location data intelligence, announced the release of a new proprietary points of interest (POI) database. The new POI database creates the largest location dataset containing all commercial buildings, entertainment and sporting venues with over 5.5 million precise location polygons representing over 4,000 different retail chains across […]
Omnichannel marketing means being agnostic about end points, says the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB). It sees all screens as worthwhile, and posits that working with many screens is the best way to pull in hard-to-reach viewers. Omnichannel is taking off in a big way for video marketers: 29 percent took a multi-screen approach in 2014, while 62 […]
Sublime, a leading solution for high-impact, non-intrusive digital advertising, announced the expansion of its suite of mobile advertising solutions to better meet the needs of both advertisers and publishers. Building on an established base of scalable, non-intrusive advertising solutions, and with the addition of the new mobile ad units, Sublime now offers full-funnel marketing capabilities […]
Figures are still being collated, but 2018’s Cyber Monday retail event looks on track to bring in a record $7.9bn (£6.2bn) in US online sales, as millions of shoppers look to online retailers for substantial discounts. According to figures from Adobe Analytics, sales were up 19.7 per cent year-on-year, a smaller increase than others seen […]
Google has expanded the number of users that have access to its much-hyped, and criticised, AI that can place reservations for people. A spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that Duplex — Google’s artificially intelligent chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone — has expanded from a “set of trusted tester users” earlier this year […]
PerceptIn, a world-class full-stack visual intelligence company focused on robotics, announced that it will make its DragonFly Intelligent Advertising Vehicle available to select companies in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2019. The DragonFly Intelligent Advertising Vehicle offers early adopter advertisers and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies a digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising experience […]
Brandwatch, the $100 million, world-leading social intelligence company, announced it’s newest innovation: Iris. Iris is an in-app AI-analyst that reduces the time it takes to answer a question by providing users with complex data science solutions at the click of a button. Iris automatically analyzes large conversations happening online and explains what caused them. […]
Facebook has quietly released an app aimed at competing with TikTok, the 15-second video app that merged with Musical.ly earlier in 2018, as it looks to bring teenagers back into its user base. Word that Facebook was developing the app surfaced last month when TechCrunch reported that Facebook was building a standalone video product for users to record […]
The Napa Valley Film Festival, taking place November 7-11, is an annual celebration of food, film, and wine, lighting up the towns of Napa, Yountville, Calistoga and St. Helena at the most colourful time of the year. Independent global creative agency Crowd was tasked to create digital marketing campaigns that would help streamline a more user-friendly purchase process. Crowd designed a bespoke landing […]