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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
easyJet, one of Europe’s leading airline, launched Look&Book image search, a first for the travel industry, which allows customers to instantly book a flight based on a photo, without them even needing to know the destination. The ground-breaking new feature works like this: if you’re browsing Instagram, and you see somewhere amazing that you […]
Today, no less than 357 million children live in conflict zones. But, as so few of their voices are heard, it equates to around 357 million unheard stories. Many of which are stories of refugees. This insight inspired charity War Child and Amsterdam creative agency Being There to make a 3D audio campaign to […]
Delivering more efficient, customer-first marketing has been the Holy Grail for many – if not all – brands in recent years. However, it’s often organisational changes that prove the first hurdle to overcome, more so than the investment or time-consuming nature of procuring a new martech stack to deliver. So, why do organisations need to […]
MarTech firm, AudienceProject, is launching a ground-breaking new Addressable TV measurement solution – the first of its kind to be based on individual data rather than modelled data. The new Addressable TV measurement solution enables true cross-device campaign evaluation at an individual level on devices such as Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, PlayStation, etc. as well […]
UNICEF have launched Generation Unlimited, a new global partnership dedicated to increasing opportunities and investments for children and young people aged 10 to 24. The initiative was launched at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly. It featured a hologram installation, which leverages recent technological advancements in mixed reality (VR/AR) and hologram technology, to engender […]