J. Walter Thompson London brought together global children’s charity Plan UK and popular dating app Happn to raise awareness of the massive number of girls who are married before their 16th birthday J. Walter Thompson London approached Plan UK with the idea of teaming with Happn and taking over their feed for a day. Today, […]
MasterCard has launched a promotion offering Apple Pay users free travel on London’s transport network on ‘Fare Free Mondays’. The promotion, which launched November 23 and will run every Monday until 14 December, offers a refund of up to £27.90 for any MasterCard customers paying for their transport contactlessly via Apple Pay. “The move by […]
Real Madrid is one of the most popular football team in the world, with 85m fans on Facebook and 17.5m followers on Twitter, so a partnership based around its biggest match of the year is a massive win for Snapchat, who hosted one of its Live Stories based around the side’s clash with F.C. Barcelona […]
10 Minutes With, the global career matchmaking platform, has launched a mobile app for iPhone and Android to help undergraduate, masters and MBA students search for their ideal job and connect with companies they want to work with. Available for free on iPhone and Android, the app encourages users to create a career profile, select […]
YouTube has launched its standalone app for child-friendly content in the UK and Ireland, aiming to offer parents and carers a source of streaming video that they can be assured is suitable for young children. The YouTube Kids app launched nine months ago in the US, and has since been downloaded by over 10m American […]
Ogilvy & Mather Singapore and Toys “R” Us has launched a one-of-a-kind mobile app that makes it fun and easy for kids to earn their most coveted toys after completing tasks or chores set by their parents or guardians. The app, named “Tasks for Toys”, was recently launched to solidify the brand’s position as the […]
IBM has released a retail app powered by its AI tool Watson to help make the holiday season easier for shoppers. Trend App has been designed to uncover consumer preferences behind the most talked about gifts this Christmas, forecasting what’s hot and what’s not. The product distills the sentiment of tens of millions of online […]
Motorola teamed up with actor-turned-startup investor Ashton Kutcher in this new commercial that aims to illustrate people’s dependency on their smartphones. Participants were invited to sit alone in a square cubicle facing a large mirror, with their hands placed on a transparent tabletop. Their mobile phone was left on the table, placed between their hands, […]
Of all the people globally on the internet, about half of them, nearly 1.5 billion, are on Facebook. The question for Facebook is how it and its advertisers will reach what it calls the next billion people, who will often be coming online for the first time, often only on mobile, and often on a […]
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 […]