New Year (Rosh Hashanah) is a hectic time on social media feeds in Israel. Greetings and wishes abound and if you’ve got a Facebook account, chances are you’ll be checking in more than usual to see exactly who sent you wishes, sent your friends wishes and no less important didn’t send you wishes at all! […]
IPG Mediabrands, the global media arm of Interpublic Group, announced a global partnership with Acxiom to further strengthen the network’s data and analytics capabilities. Through this partnership, agencies across the IPG Mediabrands network will accelerate their people-based targeting approach, enabling application and discovery of insights on behalf of clients. The media network’s partnership with Acxiom […]
After operating in stealth mode for 18 months, Explorics, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) marketing technology company, announced its official public launch with its flagship cloud-based reporting and analytics platform. Its objective: make business leaders who are held accountable for marketing and e-commerce performance better, by turning vast amounts of disparate data into tangible insights and recommendations to […]
To launch its new flagship model Galaxy Note 8, Samsung teamed up with creative agency Guns or Knives to create a spectacular, one-of-a-kind activation, ‘Do Bigger Things’. Samsung continues to push the boundaries of the category with its latest highly-anticipated handset: with more RAM than many laptops, Galaxy Note 8 is the technology giant’s most […]
Corona is on a mission to encourage people around the world to reconnect with nature and the outdoors because we spend on average 90% of our time inside. Corona believes outside is where our best side shines through, but getting outside to experience nature isn’t as easy as it should be with over half of […]
Ad tech company Advrty introduced the beta release of their patent pending VR platform for native advertising. The company makes immersive ads seamlessly integrated into three-dimensional worlds of VR games and applications. The platform enables advertisers and brands to meet their consumers in new and innovative, context-driven experiences. The technology will be presented at Pocket […]
Inspired Pet Nutrition, the family-run business whose Wagg and Harringtons brands make it the UK’s largest independent producer of dry pet food, is investing in shoppable ads and content, making it even easier for consumers to buy products directly from them. IPN has been working with add to basket tech firm Adimo to enable customers […]
New research assessing the current and future state of the martech industry, has found that the UK and US martech market is growing exponentially as demand for new tools continues to rise. The survey released on September 12 by Moore Stephens, the top ten global accountancy firm, and WARC, the global authority on advertising and […]
Marmite, Unilever’s famous spread, has launched a new digital experience that analyses your emotions whilst you taste Marmite, to discover, in real-time, whether you are likely to be born a lover or a hater. The technology has been developed by digital creative agency AnalogFolk. Visit tasteface.marmite.co.uk on your mobile and try some Marmite. TasteFace and […]
China has become the first nation to embrace facial recognition technology to authorise digital payments following an innovative play by Alibaba to ease queues in local KFC restaurants. The so-called ‘smile to pay’ service has been introduced in the city of Huangzhou as part of a trial with the chicken chain to boost the customer […]