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Sponsored Stories on Instagram
Instagram Stories, where users can share moments of the day in a slideshow format, has been a regular feature of Instagram since August 2016. The feature is now opening up to brand advertising with the launch of some new ad units following a two month beta.
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Mindshare |
2017 |
Facebook Mid-Roll Roll Out
Facebook announced the expansion of mid-roll video ads beyond its own platform to “eligible” outside publishers (i.e., Facebook Live partners). In the near future, mid-rolls, which run like commercial breaks during digital video streams, are also expected to be available for live streaming content (Reuters has reported that Facebook has been considering Major League Baseball as a content partner).
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Mindshare |
2017 |
Starbucks Social Gifting Launches on WeChat
This Valentine’s Day, love and coffee joined together on WeChat as Starbucks launched “Say It With Starbucks” in China - the first branded social gifting experience on China’s most popular app.
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Mindshare |
2017 |
Search Targeting on Pinterest
Pinterest announced last week that it will be introducing a search advertising product. Although keyword based targeting has been available through third party providers such as 4C since 2016, the new product will include new targeting features and a shopping feed similar to Google’s product listing ads.
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Mindshare |
2017 |
Fast Take On: Super Bowl LI
History was made as the New England Patriots mounted a record-setting comeback against the Atlanta Falcons, including the first overtime in Super Bowl history. Millions tuned in not just for the game, but also for the halftime show, which saw record viewership, and of course the commercials! Brands did their best to match the level of energy that the Patriots’ Tom Brady and the team brought through a series of emotionally-driven and politically-charged messages, with the occasional interjection of humor.
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MEC |
2017 |
Search Targeting on YouTube & Cloud-based marketing
Google announced it is now allowing advertisers to use Google search history data to target users on YouTube, introducing more precise, data-driven targeting capabilities on its premium video platform. This update comes as part of Google’s broader plans to deploy new cloud-based marketing solutions to deliver ads in a more relevant and useful way, as well as provide more detailed and meaningful reporting in an increasingly cross-device landscape.
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Mindshare |
2017 |
Creating A Digital Payments Roadmap
It takes time for human behavior to catch up with rapid technological change. Consumers rely on engineering and design visionaries to show us the future since we ourselves can only see so far. As Henry Ford put it, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
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MEC |
2016 |
Are ads on Snapchat enough of a “Spectacle”?
It was reported this week that Snapchat video ads are viewed for less than three seconds on average. This obviously causes some concern that such a short viewing time would not be enough for brand’s content to resonate with users. The report comes after Snapchat recently rebranded as Snap Inc. and took its first steps into the hardware world introducing Spectacles - sunglasses with an integrated video camera that enables users to transfer circular video directly into the Snapchat app.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
2017: Predicting the Increasingly Unpredictable
Making predictions is a precarious business. The improbable is increasingly the probable, whether Leicester City F.C, the Cubs, Trump or Brexit. Thankfully digital has always been somewhat predictable; you simply can’t keep an old digital trend down. They just keep coming back with new names, upgraded technology and refreshed mojo. So without further ado, here’s my forecast for 2017.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Digital To Our Core
It’s a theory that has been around for almost a century: there are no more than six degrees of separation between any two people on the planet. But as the world goes online, the degrees of separation between people is shrinking. According to a Facebook study, there are only 3.57 degrees of separation between you and the 7.9 billion other people on the planet.
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Gain Theory |
2016 |
The First 12 Hours of Single’s Day 2016
For millions of Chinese consumers, last night was a sleepless night, as they stayed up past midnight for their yearly shopping mania, Single’s Day (a.k.a ‘Double 11’). According to data released by commerce giant Alibaba, sales this year surpassed 100 million RMB (14.7 million USD) in 20 seconds. In 1 hour and 57 seconds, the number was 36.2 billion (5.3 billion USD) – the total Single’s Day sales in 2013.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Windows 10 Creators
Microsoft provided a view of what the near-future holds during the Windows 10 event that took place last Wednesday. The biggest focus of the event was its Windows 10 update called Creators, set to launch in early 2017.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Spotify 'Branded Moments'
Spotify is serving its first vertical video ads - a mobile-first video format named "Branded Moments" that offers its 70m ‘non-subscriber’ users thirty minutes of commercial-free music. Bacardi, Gatorade and Bose are among the first to try out the new ads.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Snap Inc New Advertising Technology
Snap Inc has expanded its advertising offering by unveiling a new API. It now allows advertisers to experiment with ads using different creative concepts simultaneously, in order to optimize for the best performing creative. It is also working on building sophisticated targeting techniques to allow brands to retarget users that have already engaged with an ad.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Alphabet Announcements
On October 4th, Alphabet boldly announced several new hardware devices and advancements in software, particularly in voice interaction and artificial intelligence. While not entirely groundbreaking, the depth and breadth of the products and features was a clear message of intent that Alphabet is not backing down from Apple and Amazon even in areas like drone delivery.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Unwrapping The Candy
When it comes to selling a product, what really matters to consumers? Lulu Raghavan explains how a simple piece of candy illuminates the best approach for brands.
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Landor |
2016 |
MEC @ Advertising Week 2016
The 18th global edition of Advertising Week returned to New York City from September 26th–30th to provide world-class thought leadership seminars and paramount evening events to all its delegates.
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MEC |
2016 |
The Coalition For Better Ads
Publishers have always had to balance pleasing their audience with pleasing their advertisers. Too much advertising turns audiences away, too little means less revenue. Then there are the bad ads, the annoying and irritating, disruptive ones. To tackle this problem, GroupM is helping to form The Coalition for Better Ads - a global industry movement of publishers, agencies, technology companies and advertisers that aims to develop and implement new standards in digital advertising.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
#DMEXCO2016
DMEXCO – a local German advertising technology expo or another international ‘must attend’ event for the diary? That debate will continue but both the usual global media suspects and local German players showed up for this year’s biggest European advertising technology show.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Spotlight On Conversational Commerce
The web has always been a conversational medium, from Internet Relay Chat in the 1980s to Snapchat today—digital technology has fed our human desire for discourse
with others.
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MEC |
2016 |
iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2
Today, Apple held its annual September Event to reveal the next wave of products and software. Most of the hype surrounded the highly anticipated iPhone 7, the iOS10 update, and the Apple Watch Series 2. With the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone next year, rumors were right that iPhone updates would be mostly aesthetic but these updates have major cultural implications.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Facebook launches Lifestage
Facebook recently launched a new app called Lifestage. Created by Michael Saymen a 19 year old Product Manager, Lifestage is a social network aimed at video loving teens, ultimately reinventing what Facebook would look like if it was built around the currency of today’s digital world of snackable video.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Pinterest Promoted Videos
Pinterest has introduced Promoted Video ads this week in an effort to expand its capabilities and keep pace with its evolving counterparts Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat. With Pinterest’s recently rolled out video player, brands can now run full auto-play video paid advertisements (with sound) that look like animated posts.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Instagram Stories
Last week Instagram introduced Stories, allowing users to share multiple photos and videos together in a slideshow format with their followers. Clearly taking inspiration from others, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom said that Snapchat “deserve all the credit” for this montage style.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Esports
There is a hot spectator sport making news this year and itis on itsway to becoming a billion dollar industry. It has professional competitors, millions of fans, enviable viewership, millions of dollars in championship prizes and regularly sells out arenas. It is more watched than the World Series and the NCAA Final Four. We are not talking about the NFL—we are talking about electronic sports, alsoknown as esports.
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MEC |
2016 |