Beer brand Desperados, part of the Brau Union brewery group, has launched a vertical video campaign aimed specifically at mobile consumers, one of the first of its kind to be run in Europe. The campaign, developed by mobile ad tech firm YOC, centres around an understitial vertical video ads that enables a full screen display […]
Unilever brands Knorr, Rexona and Magnum are pushing out mobile video ads with an auto start-stop function that are less intrusive for consumers while enabling the marketer to only pay for visible impressions. Ad transparency is a heated topic in digital marketing these days, with brands increasingly expressing frustration over not having a clearer picture […]
With the decline in text and increase in sharing through pictures and video, Facebook’s EMEA vice president Nicola Mendelsohn said she would put money on Facebook becoming “all video over the next five years”. Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women International Summit today Mendelsohn also noted the importance of virtual reality and the rise […]
Snapchat has signed a multiyear deal to share live moments from Wimbledon, including user footage from the men and women’s finals. The partnership comes as the social giant has revealed its British user number for the first time, claiming that it now has 10 million active daily users in the UK, which makes Britain its […]
IMAX has partnered with Google to develop a ‘cinema-grade’ VR camera that can be used to record 360° video at a comparable quality to IMAX films. The camera will be specifically built to make use of Jump, Google’s platform for creating and viewing 360° stereoscopic video. As it makes its biggest step yet into VR […]
Spotify is expanding its video offering with the launch of 12 original series in the UK, US, Germany and Sweden. The streaming app isn’t straying too far from its roots, though, at least initially. The first wave of series will all revolve all around music in some way, including music history documentary “Landmark”, hip-hop concert […]
Mobile devices have helped bring the internet and digital media to more people in China than ever before. But 2015 research suggests that users in the country are less receptive to mobile video ads than their counterparts around the world. According to Kantar Millward Brown and On Device Research, just 9% of mobile users surveyed […]
TubeMogul has partnered with Facebook to sell video ads on the social network’s news feed, as well as on Instagram, across desktop and mobile. This makes it one of the first video platforms to be awarded the Facebook Marketing Partner badge, following a closed beta during which brands including Expedia, Lenovo and Kraft ran over […]
Ad industry sources reveal that Pinterest’s “long-awaited video ads” are here. “Pinterest had been considering how it could implement video ads for months,” noted Garett Sloane in a post for Digiday. “Promoted video pins are being tested among a small group of users, and internally at Pinterest, according to one source briefed on the tests.” […]
Instagram is extending the maximum length for videos from 15 seconds to 60, and enabling users to create single videos from multiple clips. These changes follow a 40 per cent increase in time spent watching videos on Instagram over the past six months. Longer videos have been available to advertisers since February, but will now […]