Toyota has seized on Siri voice control and uses a radio spot to interact with drivers’ mobile phones. Saatchi & Saatchi, together with the motoring giants, developed the ad, in order to get people to think twice before using the cell phone while driving. The radio spot simply communicates to the mobile to switch itself […]
After successfully using Usain Bolt to introduce Celcom’s fast 4G LTE network back in 2013, advertising agency M&C Saatchi has decided to continue its collaboration with the world’s fastest man to launch the telco’s new “Non-Stop Internet” network. The 360-campaign kicked off with a TV commercial three weeks ago that featured a baton being passed […]
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 […]
An ad agency in Singapore has added to the SG50 marketing frenzy with an idea to translate the colloquial language of Singlish into emojis, the pictorial language used by smartphone users. The SGMOJI guide, created by BBDO Singapore, can be downloaded from this website. Among the entries in the SGMOJI guide are ‘Talk cock’, a favoured phrase among politicians to […]
“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 […]
Disney is further stoking Star Wars hype ahead of the latest cinematic instalment of the science fiction franchise this December with the launch of an official iOS and Android app. Designed primarily to keep die-hard fans abreast of all the latest news ahead of a release of the Force Awakens the app can be configured […]