O2’s marketing director Nina Bibby says she wants to create a “movement” with the activity and be seen as the brand powering the support for England’s Rugby team during the World Cup. The goal to be seen as the brand helping England to success at the Rugby World Cup began in earnest earlier this year […]
Carphone Warehouse’s latest advertising campaign follows comedian, Keith Lemon, as he travels the globe in documentary style parody to highlight the issues people face when they’re not on the right mobile phone deal. The campaign consists of three 60-second films covering Lemon- whose real name is Leigh Francis- on his “Super Mega Personalised Quest Fing” […]
The latest report in We Are Social’s series of studies into Digital, Social & Mobile use around the world shows that the pace of digital adoption in China shows few signs of slowing. Internet in China The research shows that roughly 100,000 people in China started using the internet every day over the past year […]
It is not a far cry to say that mobile phones are an integral part of our lives today. Based on a recent study conducted by creative agency We are Social, there are over 3.6 billion unique mobile users in the world. With 33 percent of the population using mobiles to access the Internet and […]
Airtel has rolled out a campaign for the launch of its 4G offering, conceptualised by Taproot Dentsu. A film that is part of the campaign is set on a terrace in a residential area of a small town. The stage is prepared for a contest, a keenly awaited one at that. A table is the […]
A third now see their smartphone as the preferred device to access the internet, while 4G subscriptions grew tenfold over the course of last year. Smartphones have now overtaken laptops as the most popular device for getting online, with record ownership and use key drivers. This is according to Ofcom’s 2015 Communications Market Report, published, […]
About 40 per cent of global eCommerce transactions involve multiple devices prior to purchase, highlighted Criteo in its Q2 results. Mobile commerce accounted for 27 per cent of all eCommerce in Southeast Asia, putting the region at a similar level to Spain and Italy, and right behind the US. The APAC region accounted for nearly […]
“Mobile advertising as a whole is just fairly crappy,” said Sebastian Tomich, The New York Times senior VP of advertising and innovation. Mr. Tomich isn’t saying anything controversial. Most people seem to agree that those thin horizontal banners pinned to the bottom of publishers’ mobile sites haven’t won many fans. Neither have the full-screen interstitial […]
Genesis Media, which surveyed more than 11,500 US adults in late May and early June, found that while 24 percent of respondents installed ad blockers on either their home or work computers, just 3 percent did so on their smartphones or tablets. Two things immediately jump out from those statistics: First, marketers already had plenty […]
New research has revealed the changing face of the UK’s native advertising market: there is more confidence and budget, with programmatic and mobile seen as the two main areas for growth. The second annual independent survey into this market was commissioned by native advertising platform Adyoulike and covered all major agencies and agency trading desks […]