In an eye-opening keynote at New York’s Social Media Week, New York Times (NYT) chief executive Mark Thompson outlined the future of the publication and how it fosters innovation. “Sometimes, you should just go with your instinct”; a phrase that reverberated not only around the main room at The Times Centre is Manhattan on Febraury […]
Exterion Media has partnered with Shazam and Fox to bring a beacon-enabled ad campaign to London’s buses. In what is the first time beacons have been used on the London bus network, Fox movie Kung Fu Panda 3 will be promoted through a campaign that uses both outdoor advertising on the side of the buses […]
Mastercard is the latest financial institution looking to make it easier for customers to access their money by embracing new biometric log-ins enabled by new technological breakthroughs. After HSBC recently announced it is moving to accept biometric voice and fingerprint security prompts, Mastercard revealed at the Mobile World Congress tech show in Barcelona that it […]
KitKat has promoted its new 11-finger Snap & Share bar with a special package sent to 120 innovative companies. The package developed by J.Walter Thompson London, included one of the bars and a mock parking lot for people to ‘park’ their mobile phones to enjoy a ‘phone-free’ break. The insight behind the work was that […]
Three is set to become the first major mobile network operator in Europe to block ads, after partnering Shine Technologies, a specialist in blocking mobile advertising. The company said the ad-blocking technology would be rolled out to all Three Group operators, beginning with the UK and Italy. Three also runs operators in Austria, Denmark, Ireland […]
Samsung has unveiled its Unpacked campaign, created by agency 72andSunny, highlighting how Samsung and its users have progressed through great innovation over the years, as a prelude to the Samsung event at Mobile World Congress starting February 22. The video goes through a timeline of Samsung’s most notable innovations in technology, unpacking the brick phone down […]
Monetisation platform Tapjoy has announced partnerships with a number of the industry’s leading ad mediation companies, including MoPub, Fyber and AerServ, with the aim of bringing more sophisticated user-level segmentation and predictive analytics to their platforms. The partnerships will enable app developers to leverage mediated ad demand in conjunction with advanced tools aimed at improving ROI […]
In partnership with the Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games, as the mobile sponsor of Olympics, Samsung takes ski jumps to the next level with Gear VR in 360 degrees of virtual reality. The 4D VR experiences will be available to the public during the Winter Youth Olympic Games from February 11th to February 21st […]
US mobile network AT&T has announced the launch of a year-long program of mobile content marketing videos featuring 10 digital creators drawn from a variety of areas. The project, called AT&T Hello Lab, aims to produce community-driven content and move towards an unprecedented long-term commitment to co-creation with digital influencers. The program, created in collaboration […]
Experian has launched a new mobile app designed to help children learn essential money management skills while they earn the things they want. Named ‘Jangle’ after the noise coins make, the app was designed and built by digital agency DARE, a part of the OLIVER Group, and is being launched with support from Sarah Willingham, […]