Airbnb spawns cottage industry of service brands
Everyone’s a platform these days, even Airbnb. The fast-growing housing rental service has spawned a cottage industry of service startups for everything from property management...
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Buying ads made easy
Amazon has built a self-serve tool to allow advertisers to purchase ads directly from the company in real time. The self-serve tool is for ads...
The ‘rich’ evolution of mobile advertising
When it comes to user engagement, no other mass media can boast the same level of personalisation and far-reaching potential as mobile devices such as...
Facebook “Retargeting” study: Mobile Ads not only work better, they are cheaper too!
“Retargeting” is a very effective, rapidly growing technique to improve the conversion rate from digital advertising. Only recently have advertisers been able to use the...
Ensemble Australia repositions and expands to full service creative
Ensemble Australia is positioning itself to take on full service creative assignments from clients, expanding the agency by introducing design, digital development, in-house production as...
Ensemble Australia repositions; expands to full service
Ensemble is positioning itself to take on full service creative assignments from marketers in Australia. The agency has introduced design, digital development, in-house production as...
Hooray, brands get choosier about their social content
Real-time marketing, the advertising buzzword that has plagued our Twitter streams since Oreo decided to dunk in the dark during the 2012 Super Bowl, is...
What FB’s Buy Now means to ecommerce & marketers
Facebook plans to introduce a Buy Now button to its brand pages and news feeds. The news follows Twitter’s acquisition of CardSpring, an ecommerce platform...
LinkedIn’s Powered-Up Media Platform Spells End To Bizo’s Standalone Data Business
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner confirmed the social network wants to enable customers to prospect and nurture leads well beyond its own walled garden during the...
Branded Content by BuzzFeed Giving Brands an Awful Lot of Bang for their Buck
Have you see BuzzFeed’s “Dear Kitten”? You probably have, since this specific bit of brilliant branded content that they created has nearly 15 million views...
Why Facebook’s “Buy Now” Button is Destined to Fail
Last week, Facebook announced it’s testing a new advertising unit in its Marketplace that will feature a “buy now” button in the ad. It’s no...
Confessions of a magazine editor: ‘An impossible job’
Being a magazine editor isn’t the glamorous gig it once was. Long martini lunches with fellow wags and expensive photo shoots have given way to frantic...
RTL Buys 65% of SpotXchange For $144 Million, As Big Media Players Look To Shore Up Programmatic Video Tech
There is a feeding frenzy going on in the online video tech space at the moment – with big media business looking to shore up...
ABC And 4C Partner To Connect Social Enthusiasm And Ad Sponsorships
The root of the network business is drawing a large audience to attract advertisers. As digital video and device fragmentation have disrupted the value proposition...
Samsung crafts interactive mktg push for new product launch in China
After the launch of Galaxy S4 Zoom, Samsung has launched Samsung Galaxy K Zoom that aims to cater to consumers’ increasing demand for quality photos...
How JCPenney changed its view of Facebook
Like most retailers, JCPenney spent years building up Facebook likes by the hundreds of thousands, imploring customers to “like our page” and paying Facebook for...
