The British Red Cross has launched an app that lets users witness a knife attack on a bus, using Facebook data to personalise an online film. The charity’s ‘Witness’ app integrates with a viewer’s Facebook account and inserts information from their profile into the film, which features a young man being stabbed on a night […]
Twitter has acquired the mobile-focused ad exchange, MoPub, for a reported $350m (£223m). MoPub’s technology lets mobile application publishers manage their inventory and optimize multiple sources of advertising — direct ads, house ads, ad network, and real-time bidding through the MoPub Marketplace — in a single product. The deal represents the micro-blogging site’s largest acquisition […]
Sky Sports is working with Grabyo – the real-time TV clip-sharing platform integrated with Twitter – as part of its coverage of football transfer deadline day, taking place today, 2 September. Grabyo enables broadcasters to grab, edit and share TV clips in real-time across social media and their own websites allowing brands like Sky Sports […]
A campaign to “bring viewers closer to the English Premier League” in the Asia Pacific market designed by Reed Pacific Media, Foxtel and Mediacom has produced advertisements scented with fresh cut grass. Adshel and JCDecaux bus shelter displays release the smell of fresh cut grass and the sound of a crowd cheering, via a push-button […]
MTV UK has launched an online prank campaign that tricks viewers into thinking they are chatting live in a webcam forum to people from the latest series of ‘Catfish’. The second series of ‘Catfish’ begins on 2 September and follows the stories of couples who have fallen in love online without ever meeting each other […]
Even before Al Jazeera America made it to the airwaves on Tuesday, it was already in the middle of its first carriage dispute. On its first day of service, the network filed a lawsuit against AT&T, which dropped AJAM from its U-Verse service on Monday at 11:59. The network went live at 3 p.m. yesterday […]
Wonga has launched a rapid response ad campaign days after the Archbishop of Canterbury said he vowed to “compete it out of existence”. The ads , which have appeared in national press on July 26 and are due to appear in digital and digital out of home over the weekend, aim to dispel some people’s […]
Broadcast TV advertising spending rocketed up by strong double-digit percentages in the second quarter. Standard Media Index says broadcast TV spending was up 16% in the second three months of 2013, and 10% through the first half of the year. By way of comparison, national cable TV advertising moved up more slowly in the second quarter, […]
Digital companies are likely to employ three more people than non-digital employers according to a report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, which claims a fresh approach to measuring the UK’s digital economy has revealed it is 40 per cent bigger than previously thought. The report, which was commissioned by Google, claims […]
The Andy Warhol Museum has launched a new marketing campaign from MARC USA. Comprising print and digital, the ‘Summer’s Different Here’ ads feature ordinary images of summertime, like beach balls, flip-flops and hot dog buns, provocatively reimagined and presented as bold pop-art in Warhol style. “This campaign complements the provocative nature of the artwork currently […]