Australia-based marketing technology company Simple has opened a London office and announced its EMEA management team a month after an investment round worth AUD $17m to expand its Intelligent Marketing Platform globally. Simple has appointed Joe Jarrett, former CEO of global marketing and brand asset management platform Adgistics, as managing director, EMEA, heading up a […]
Skärmfri (Screenfree) is a smart new lamp that tells you when it’s time to take a break from your phone, laptop or tablet. By connecting to your WiFi, Skärmfri measures how much time you and your family spend on social media. Then, when it’s time to be social in real life, it glows red […]
Pernod Ricard-owned Malibu and Kahlúa are launching a brand new technology demonstration and rapid prototyping space at their global headquarters in Stockholm, a city second only to Silicon Valley when it comes to creating successful startups which include: Spotify, King and Mojang. The space, which has been created in conjunction with the company’s technology innovation agency, […]
The independent creative agency CULT has launched its first ever Amazon Alexa and Google Home voice app, Mindscape. Created to offer front-line support to people suffering from anxiety or a panic attack, Mindscape was released on October 9 and is the first product created by CULT Experiment, the agency’s new offering – an innovation lab […]
SOREL, the premium footwear brand that blends function into its range of stylish boots is unveiling its autumn-winter collection with a weather reactive digital OOH campaign. The responsive campaign runs across city, roadside, and retail locations, including Westfield London and Manchester’s Arndale Center until 22nd October. The campaign creative responds, and changes based on Met […]
Bidooh (the “Group”), a real-time, real-audience, digital billboard advertising platform, announced that one of the world’s largest digital asset exchanges OKEx has participated in its Initial Coin Offering (“ICO”). Bidooh launched an ICO pre-sale of its cryptocurrency, DOOH Token, on 1 October 2018. OKEx uses blockchain technology to optimise the provision of financial services to […]
Tug, an international Digital Performance Marketing Agency, announced it has appointed Tug alumni Ollie Vaughan as its new Chief Media Officer, Asher Gordon as Head of Biddable Media and Christian Jones as Commercial Director. In his new role, Ollie will be primarily responsible for developing Tug’s marketing strategy as the company looks to expand globally. […]
Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon, two leaders in the social intelligence space, announce the signing of a merger agreement. This merger, expected to close in Q4, creates a c. $100 million annual recurring revenue business that will move forward as Brandwatch. “In this digitally connected world, our vision is to transform how organisations understand their consumers […]
Many years ago, when I was working at a big media agency, I remember someone saying that “TV is dead” and that “soon it will only be about digital”. I eagerly listened trying to learn something I did not know yet. What I understand today is that the ever-growing stats around digital can be misleading. […]
Yonder Media, the agency formed earlier in 2018 by The Beyond Collective, has created a spoof ChatBot Media Planner that claims to offer clients a perfect replica of their current agency service in Chatbot form. Calling itself “the world’s first chatbot-powered media planning tool”, it offers to analyse each advertiser’s specific requirements before producing a […]