TMW Unlimited launches interactive story app The Haunting of Bagger Bones featuring Mr Benn narrator Ray Brooks

TMW Unlimited launches interactive story app The Haunting of Bagger Bones featuring Mr Benn narrator Ray Brooks

TMW Unlimited is launching a new children’s interactive story app featuring Ray Brooks, the narrator of the much-loved Mr Benn animated TV series. The app is the brainchild of a TMW Unlimited employee and is launching as a result of the agency’s Project Iliad business incubator programme. The Haunting of Bagger Bones was devised by […]

DDB Mudra Group’s Madhukar Kamath: E-Commerce has the most exciting potential in the Indian Ad Industry

DDB Mudra Group’s Madhukar Kamath: E-Commerce has the most exciting potential in the Indian Ad Industry

MarComm News’ Editorial Director Neeraj Nayar, sat down with DDB Mudra Group’s Group CEO & Managing Director, Madhukar Kamath on his recent trip to London, to get the low down on the rapidly growing Indian Advertising and Marketing Industry. Madhukar has more than three decades of experience in Advertising and Marketing Services and has spent […]

The New York Times to launch slate of VR films, will give out 1M+ Google Cardboard viewers for free

The New York Times to launch slate of VR films, will give out 1M+ Google Cardboard viewers for free

The New York Times will distribute Google Cardboard virtual reality (VR) viewers to its home-delivery newspaper customers in the U.S. as part of a new campaign. The media giant has partnered with Google for the initiative, and will deliver more than one million of the units to readers’ homes over the weekend of November 7-8. […]

Microsoft releases dual screen photo-messaging app for iOS

Microsoft releases dual screen photo-messaging app for iOS

Microsoft Garage has created a quirky new photo-messaging app for iOS that promises to make sharing more intuitive by featuring a vertically split screen, enabling the sender to take a photo and type a message over the top half, with the recipient replying on the lower half. Twist is designed to make the user experience […]

LinkedIn shows off Project Voyager, its new flagship mobile app

LinkedIn shows off Project Voyager, its new flagship mobile app

LinkedIn recently gave a first look at a new version of its flagship mobile app. Internally known as Project Voyager, the app for mobile web, iOS, and Android is still in beta and won’t be available for another few weeks. LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner gave a presentation on the new app during the LinkedIn […]

72andSunny Amsterdam & Google Help You Rediscover Paris with New Campaign

72andSunny Amsterdam & Google Help You Rediscover Paris with New Campaign

To celebrate the arrival of autumn 72andSunny Amsterdam and Google are launching the second edition of ‘Les Heures Magiques’ (‘The Magic Hours’) on October 15th: a social campaign and interactive mobile experience that invites Parisians to 31 nights full of inspiring activities to experience after sunset in Paris. Collaborating with both the City of Paris, […]

Twitter Expands Pre-roll Video Ads

Twitter Expands Pre-roll Video Ads

Twitter’s new CEO Jack Dorsey was among the presenters at an event recently in New York, which saw the social network roll out a new series of video ad features for publishers and marketers, expanding the company’s Amplify ad program considerably. Publishers who post videos on Twitter will now be able to more effectively monetise […]

Papa John’s Tap Rakuten Marketing to Drive Digital Sales in Yorkshire

Papa John’s Tap Rakuten Marketing to Drive Digital Sales in Yorkshire

Papa John’s, the third largest pizza delivery company in the world, is working with digital marketing company, Rakuten Marketing to drive digital sales through location targeting and raise awareness of a York store opening – its first in Yorkshire. Papa John’s is using Rakuten Marketing’s targeting technology to pinpoint their core audience within a three […]

The Walking Dead and Next Games partner to launch the show’s first official mobile game

The Walking Dead and Next Games partner to launch the show’s first official mobile game

With so much crossover between fans of The Walking Dead and gamers, AMC and the Helsinki-based game development company Next Games have released the series first official mobile game. The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land stays true to the show even as it follows its own narrative. “Guided by Daryl Dixon, the fan-favorite character from […]

Apple Removes Ad Blockers from Store Over Security Concerns

Apple Removes Ad Blockers from Store Over Security Concerns

Apple has removed a number of ad blocking apps from its App Store, expressing concerns that the security of users’ personal data could be at risk in certain circumstances due to so-called “man in the middle” breaches. While Apple now permits ad blockers on its Safari web browser, the banned apps also block in-app advertising […]