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A fourth horse changes the race; Snapchat revamps its platform for the future
Snapchat recently announced sweeping updates to its platform ranging from a new user interface to a new marketing API, along with some new ad units and measurement capabilities to continue its evolution.
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GroupM Connect |
2016 |
Spotify Programmatic Offering
Spotify’s mobile audio ad inventory is now available programmatically through private marketplace (PMP) deals, thanks to partnerships with AppNexus, The Trade Desk, MediaMath and Rubicon. This allows ad buyers to tap into what they know about users using the same 1st and 3rd party data they use across other platforms in order to serve them messaging in unique audio ad formats versus the usual display and video programmatic formats. This offering is available in all of Spotify’s 59 markets across the globe.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Yahoo Acquisition
After months of speculation Verizon has finally acquired Yahoo for nearly $4.83b in cash, slightly more than the $4.4b it paid for AOL just over a year ago. Notably the acquisition doesn’t include two of Yahoo’s more prized possessions: its stake in Alibaba Holding Groups and Yahoo Japan.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Apple App Store Search Ads
Apple is launching a new search ads product for App developers allowing them to bid to appear for desirable searches using a similar model to Google’s search engine advertising platform, AdWords.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Pokémon GO
Pokémon GO has taken over the world. Reports from SimilarWeb emerged on Monday morning that the app had overtaken Tinder in Android app downloads and expected to overtake Twitter in daily active users.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Twitter – Emoji Targeting and Stickers!
Twitter is introducing a new way for advertisers to target users who have tweeted with a specific emoji or engaged with tweets containing a certain emoji. In addition, Twitter is also joining Snapchat, WeChat, WhatsApp and Messenger, by giving users the ability to add stickers to their photos before they upload.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Amazon Fresh
Amazon recently announced the launch of its grocery delivery service in the UK, Amazon Fresh. It will provide one-hour time slot grocery deliveries between 7am and 11pm, seven days a week to Amazon Prime members (£79.99 subscription). After operating in the West and East coast of America since 2007, Amazon has now opened its service to London.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Google expands top mobile search ads to four
On highly commercial queries, Google is expanding out the number of top ads to 4 on Mobile Search, further reducing organic click share on these queries.
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MEC |
2016 |
MEC @ E3 2016
The 22nd annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (known as E3) hosted over 200 announcements and reveals, with more than 2,000 projects currently in
progress displayed on the show floor. Keynotes included Electronic Arts, Bethesda, Microsoft, Ubisoft and Sony.
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MEC |
2016 |
Fast Take On #ThinkContent Summit 2016
This year’s #ThinkContent Summit, NewsCred’s annual content marketing conference, reiterated the fact that content marketing is not an ephemeral trend—in fact, it is a requirement for marketing success. #ThinkContent featured speakers from across agencies, brands and publisher landscapes, as well as covering topics such as content marketing trends, predictions, B2B specialization and content for millennials.
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MEC |
2016 |
Extra Sense
In the last twenty years we have gone through two massive waves of disruption to marketing. This collection of short essays provides a quick glimpse into how this third wave will not only bring lots of new connections, but will also change the way we engage with technology and as a consequence how we see content, shop for goods, search on information and manage our lives.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Snapchat Gets Selective
News broke this week that Snapchat is consulting with advertising and publishing partners to introduce an algorithm into its Stories feed. The Stories feed is the element of Snapchat that most resembles a ‘traditional’ social platform (and is akin to the Twitter feed, or the Facebook NewsFeed).
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Google announces new product features & AdWords redesign
Google’s annual Performance Summit in San Francisco kicks off today, Tuesday May 24. During the summit, Google will be unveiling some new product features as well as showcasing its redesigned AdWords interface.
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GroupM Connect |
2016 |
Gboard – Google’s New Keyboard for iOS
On May 12, 2016, Google released Gboard, a new keyboard for iOS devices. At time of writing, it is already among the top 25 free apps in the App Store, and the #1 free Utilities app.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
MEC @ MMA Marketing Leadership Summit 2016
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) held its annual Leadership Forum in New York City on May 10th and 11th, bringing together marketers from around the world to debate the theme for 2016: Winning at Mobile, Winning at Business. Marketers such as Marriott, American Express, Bank of America, Mondelēz and Johnson & Johnson took to the stage to share how they are acting on the MMA’s recommendation ‘to allocate 15%-20% of one’s total marketing budget to mobile’ and discuss what success looks like in a mobile-first world.
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MEC |
2016 |
MEC @ Digital NewFronts 2016
Hosted in partnership with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), this annual
event for marketers delivers unparalleled opportunities to connect with both
established and emerging content providers while bringing first looks of the
latest in original digital programming.
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MEC |
2016 |
How to fill Big Data’s black holes
The touchpoints revolution has created a big bang of rapidly emerging new data sources – but between these points of light, it’s also created black holes in our understanding that only a re-engineered approach to research can fill
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TNS |
2016 |
Social Media Giants Enter Live Video
Twitter and Facebook have both recently announced key partnerships and product updates around their live streaming services.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
F8 Facebook Developer Conference
Facebook F8, Facebook’s annual two-day developers conference, hosted thousands of entrepreneurs in San Francisco for a look at new products, tools, demos and speakers to guide the growth of apps and services on the platform. Although F8 originally began as an eight-hour hackathon, today it is a critical event for users, publishers, brands and especially marketers, as it offers a glimpse into the future of Facebook.
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MEC |
2016 |
The South Asia Digital Casebook
At the start of 2016, India has the second largest Internet user base globally. India today has more Internet users than the entire population of U.S.A! The digital story is upbeat in the rest of the Indian subcontinent too- Bangladesh and Sri Lanka both have Internet penetration upwards of 25% of the population; and Pakistan is showing steady increase in Internet user base-200x the base it had a decade back!
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GroupM |
2016 |
Ad blocking update
A group of key stakeholders from the World Federation of Advertisers, the World Economic Forum and the Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe met in London and issued a four point plan on how to improve digital advertising as ad blocking, intrusive tracking, and poor metrics continue to be an issue. Anti-ad-blocking firm PageFair put together the meeting.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
MEC @ MWC 2016
MWC keeps getting bigger, both in terms of attendees ( 95,000 this year) and coverage in mainstream press. Once again MEC was there to bring you the best of the show. This year we also held our own MEC@MWC conference for clients, hosted by Heads of Mobile from the UK, EMEA and US.
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MEC |
2016 |
Google Change Search Ads Layout
Today Google announced an important change to how paid ads will serve on both desktop and tablet devices. The change moves away from three top-level paid ads to four for top commercial terms, with the side bar ads, traditionally positions 4-9, now falling away.
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MEC |
2016 |
Will Verizon Rescue Yahoo
Last week, US mobile company Verizon said it is interested in purchasing some or all of Yahoo. With more than 112 million wireless subscribers, it is looking to add Yahoo’s more than 1 billion e-mail, finance, sports and video users to AOL’s 400 million users, in an attempt to secure a foothold in digital advertising against YouTube and Facebook.
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Mindshare |
2016 |
Making a Super Bowl Size Statement in Social Media
The biggest night in American sports comes around once a year, and this year’s Super Bowl 50 was a highly anticipated match between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers.
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MEC |
2016 |