- Prominent Figures Filling Apps With Fake News
Mobile Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Researchers found misinformation from prominent figures made up 20% of the claims in their sample, although it accounted for 69% of total social media engagement. ...
- Weighted Images Pose New Challenge, Slow Load Times For Amazon, Others
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Weighted images have always slowed web page-load times, but recent data points to issues for specific retailers like Amazon, Costco and The Home Depot. ...
- Global Video Downloads Increase, Due To Broadband Slowdowns
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Last month, there was a massive 380% rise in videos downloaded to 4.7 million versus March 2019. ...
- Mobile Apps Use Location Data To Identify When People Cross Paths With COVID-19
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Software tools that use location history and ad-targeting technology to track how COVID-19 spreads are available from companies like OnAudience.com, which has developed an app that gives people information if ...
- Pinterest Pushes Out New Ways To Shop From Search And Recommendations
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Looking to help small businesses stay afloat, Pinterest on Tuesday announced new ways to shop from Pins, on boards, from search and through new recommendations for home decor. ...
- Wearables Brand Increases Shipments 500%
Around the Net in IoT, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Global shipments of the Honor Bands and the MagicWatches by Honor increased annually by 500%. ...
- Uber Suggests UK Drivers Apply To Drive Supermarket Vans
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Uber is emailing registered drivers in the UK to suggest they apply for jobs as supermarket delivery drivers, "The Telegraph" writes. ...
- WiFi Calling Increases 95% As Homebound Consumers Dial In
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Core network traffic including home broadband, wireless and business usage was up 25% Monday vs. a similar day at the end of February. ...
- Raise Boosts Results With Personalization Effort
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Mobile payments firm Raise will work with Sailthru to personalize mobile, website and email. ...
- Cuebiq Uses Store Visitation Data To Update Patterns In Peoples' Movements During COVID-19 Crisis
Search Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Cuebiq now provides free access to data reflecting patterns in mobile and store visits to help businesses as they adjust strategies to meet a new and uncertain market. The data ...
- Factual And Foursquare Merge To Become Location Data Powerhouse
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 6, 2020
Through the merger, the location data will be integrated and become accessible within platforms that represent more than 80% of all programmatic ad spend and will be supported by a ...
- Quibi Launches In Middle Of Pandemic, But Long-Term Prospects Are Solid
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Ten major TV and advertising marketers have signed onto Quibi with the promise to spend $150 million in advertising. ...
- Homebound Consumers Drive App Usage Up 20%: Study
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Monday, April 6, 2020
In-app spending reached $23.4 billion in the first quarter, the largest quarter ever in consumer spending, according to the research. ...
- YouTube Vows To Take Down Videos Linking 5G With COVID-19
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, April 6, 2020
YouTube is promising to do more to tackle the spread of misinformation linking coronavirus with 5G mobile technology, but "The Guardian" has found many other conspiracy videos about the technology ...
- Culture Secretary Calls On Tech Giants To Tackle 5G And COVID-19 Fake News
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, April 6, 2020
The BBC reports the Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, will hold video conferences with the tech giants in a bid to commit them to tackling the spread of misinformation relating to ...
- Publix, Walmart Lead Shoppers To Contact-Free Payments
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Monday, April 6, 2020
It's been taking forever to move contactless or mobile payments to mass adoption, but COVID-19 may be changing that. ...
- Snapchat Viewership Soars, Both For Pandemic News, Gaming
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, April 3, 2020
On Snapchat, group chat engagement also recently reached an all-time high, while time spent on video and voice calling grew by more than 50% in late March compared to late ...
- Quibi Launches Today, Facing Unforeseeable Reality Shift, Considerable Skepticism
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, April 6, 2020
Phone-only Quibi, originally designed for quick news and entertainment videos as people move about and stand in lines, now faces a shelter-at-home world for its launch today. Can it attract ...
- Quibi Launched Its Pursuit Of Consumers' Short Attention Spans
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, April 6, 2020
Quibi, the mobile-only streaming service with very brief snippets of content, makes its debut today to mixed reviews in uncertain times. ...
- China Pushes Ahead With 5G During Global Pandemic
Around the Net in IoT, Chuck Martin - Friday, April 3, 2020
While there is a global slowdown caused by COVID-19, China is reopening for business putting its 5G rollout back on track. ...
- Lockdown Sees 55% Fewer Brits Travel To Work
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, April 3, 2020
Anonymised data collected by Google suggests that 55% fewer Britons have been travelling to work in the past few days compared to a month ago, "The Telegraph" reports. ...
- Can You Believe It? People Are Talking Again -- On Their Phones!
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, April 2, 2020
The "voice" feature has always been available on cell phones, but was rarely used -- until now, as we seek more human connection. ...
- Google, Others Use Location History Data To Track Peoples' Movements During Pandemic
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 3, 2020
Google is giving the U.S. government and health organizations access to its mobile location data used in ad targeting to track people's movements amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Other data companies ...
- Slack, Microsoft Partner To Answer Demand For Apps
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Per the pact, Slack users can now launch a Microsoft Teams video conference directly from the collaboration app. ...
- InMobi Names Greg Archibald To SVP Role
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Archibald, who previously served as an EVP at Criteo, will be responsible for revenue across InMobi products. ...
- T-Mobile's Acquisition Of Sprint Is Done, Speeding Up 5G Deployment
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Merger, worth about $31.8 billion based on T-Mobile's closing stock price Tuesday, marks the end of Sprint as a company and a brand. ...
- Mobile Activity Surges As Consumers Seek Distraction
Mobile Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Average weekly time spent in apps and games on Android phones grew 20% year-over-year. ...
- Business App Category Soars As Global Population Works From Home
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, March 31, 2020
A standout among apps, demand for Zoom's Cloud Meetings service has exploded as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. ...
- Twitter's MoPub Agrees To Settle Privacy Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Twitter's MoPub has agreed to settle a class-action complaint alleging the company facilitated behavioral targeting of young children, according to court papers filed Tuesday. ...
- Ad Council COVID-19 #AloneTogether Campaign Backstory, How Dozens Of Companies Collaborated
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 1, 2020
The Idea for a private marketplace was already in the works at least a week before the COVID-19 crisis hit the U.S. ...
