Buzzfeed has launched a News app in the UK, Australia and Canada that will use push notifications to alert users to breaking stories. The media group has doubled its efforts in recent years to stand up to national titles, as well as the likes of Vice, when it comes to driving its own news agenda […]
Apple is introducing native ads to Apple News. Bought through iAd, as with all News ads, the new native format will appear alongside regular articles in the content feeds. They’re identical to any other story – displaying an image, title and short excerpt, all in the app’s default font – except for a small ‘sponsored by’ tag. Interestingly, including the advertiser name’s in […]
Creative agency Space is bringing circus thrills to 2016’s Cheltenham festival with a campaign designed to get punters to choose Coral as their bookmaker of choice at the racecourse. ‘The ‘Greatest Show on Turf’ will target festival goers with fun circus style activation that aims to get them to download the Coral app, win free […]
Shazam, one of the world’s most popular apps, has enabled the campaign of the coming third edition of Convergence, an established multi‐venue event series in London. The annual festival’s entire marketing activation is enabled with Shazam’s Visual Recognition. By ‘shazaming’ Convergence’s artworks, users will be redirected to a page offering the download an exclusive 12 […]
The BBC is launching a standalone smartphone and tablet app for its BBC Music brand, helping people listen and watch music clips from its radio and TV output. The app is being released as a free download today for Android and iOS devices, although it will only be available in the UK. Its content will include […]
As the world steps into a new era of climate action, WWF’s Earth Hour is urging its supporters to shine a light on climate action through the most powerful communication tool of our time – social media. On Saturday 19 March 2016 8:30 p.m. local time, the world’s most iconic landmarks will switch off their […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Mobile marketplace app letgo has named Crispin Porter + Bogusky London as its creative agency after a competitive pitch for the app, which offers a free platform to buy and sell used goods locally. The app has leveraged early success in the US, and raised $100m in its first significant round of funding from internet […]