Mobile Video Ad Spend has Almost Tripled in 2015

Mobile Video Ad Spend has Almost Tripled in 2015

Mobile video is more popular than ever, with a study from AppLovin and AppsFlyer showing that use of the format has grown 190 per cent in the first three quarters of 2015, and shows up to 40 per cent higher user retention than non-video formats. The figures back up a Business Insider Intelligence report from […]

Mii avatar chat app to spearhead Nintendo’s first foray into mobile

Mii avatar chat app to spearhead Nintendo’s first foray into mobile

Nintendo has unearthed details about its landmark entry into mobile gaming, revealing its first title, a free-to-play chat app called Miitomo. The app, produced by mobile developer DeNA, enables the Nintendo community to communicate with each other using their customisable Mii avatars. Details of what the game will entail are few and far between and […]

Priority Pass launches global brand refresh by Designate

Priority Pass launches global brand refresh by Designate

Priority Pass, part of the Collinson Group and the original and world’s largest independent airport lounge access programme, announces a refreshed brand proposition designed and delivered by strategically-led creative agency Designate. The newly designed brand identity and marketing collateral, which has been rolled out globally and translated into twelve languages, gives Priority Pass a contemporary […]

An Inside Look At Netflix’s Impressive Rebranding Campaign

An Inside Look At Netflix’s Impressive Rebranding Campaign

Netflix has been building quite a reputation for themselves, with “Netflix and Chill” quickly becoming part of everyday vocabulary. New York-based creative studio Gretel carried out the rebranding of Netflix. Using the stack as a visual metaphor and identity system, the agency was able to feature the many services and products that Netflix offers in […]

Wearable Usage Will Grow by Nearly 60% in 2015

Wearable Usage Will Grow by Nearly 60% in 2015

The next several years will continue to see double-digit growth in the number of Americans using wearable devices, according to eMarketer’s first wearables forecast. In 2015, 39.5 million US adults 18 and over will use wearables, including smartwatches and fitness trackers. That’s a jump of 57.7% over 2014. While penetration among US adults is just […]

Toys R Us gamifies print with interactive Christmas catalog

Toys R Us gamifies print with interactive Christmas catalog

Toy R Us has introduced a number of digital elements, including augmented reality, to its festive magazine to ensure children keep flicking through its extensive 96 pages. Marking the point where augmented reality meets traditional shopping, eight toy-laden spreads in the catalog, entitled the ‘The Great Big Toys R Us Book of Awesome’, come to […]

American Airlines Taps CP&B and MediaCom After Global Agency Review

American Airlines Taps CP&B and MediaCom After Global Agency Review

American Airlines has named MDC Partners’ CP&B and WPP’s MediaCom its new global agencies after a review. The account has been with Interpublic’s McCann Worldgroup and TM for more than two decades, though the brand had been working with predecessor agencies of TM since the early ’80s. McCann had subsidiary Martin Agency pitch the creative […]

Almost Half of Christmas Gifts Will Be Bought Online in the UK

Almost Half of Christmas Gifts Will Be Bought Online in the UK

Researching and buying presents online has become the most popular method among Britons aged 16 and over who know how they’ll be buying there Christmas presents, with 45 per cent of the £24.4bn spend this year likely to go online. According to research by RadiumOne, this year is also likely to be a multi-channel Christmas, […]

Bentley app reads emotions to create personalised car designs

Bentley app reads emotions to create personalised car designs

Bentley Motors, the luxury car brand, has introduced an app that creates a personalised car design, based on the user’s passions, lifestyle and personality type. The Bentley Inspirator uses emotion recognition software that creates an individually designed car. It has been created by VML London, which used emotion metric algorithms built using data from 3.4 […]

Target’s New Website Helps Trick-or-Treaters Find Best Candy Haunts in the Neighborhood

Target’s New Website Helps Trick-or-Treaters Find Best Candy Haunts in the Neighborhood

Americans have many, many options nearby to buy their Halloween candy, so Target is offering a little technological fun to get an edge on the competition. The Minneapolis-based chain debuted Treatster, a social-minded website that’s designed for desktop and mobile devices and lets viewers search for the best trick-or-treating locations in their neighborhoods. When viewers […]