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Advocado, a data platform connecting and powering cross-screen advertising, announced it has acquired the VEIL watermarking technology and 46 other patents from VEIL Interactive Technologies, an affiliate of Koplar Interactive Systems International (KISI). A long-time licensee of the VEIL technology, Advocado will now integrate the watermarking capabilities into its data management platform for broadcast TV […]

Project Agora and Exit Bee have established an exclusive partnership to introduce “micro moment” advertising in the MEA region with “Exit Ads“. The format leverages behavioural technology to indicate when users are becoming disengaged – offering unique benefits to both advertisers and publishers. Exit Bee utilises pattern recognition and machine learning, to precisely identify the moments […]

Hepsiburada, a Turkish eCommerce platform, announced a joint performance advertising platform in partnership with Facebook. Managed Partner Ads (MPA) is a next-generation social media advertising platform designed to be used exclusively by Hepsiburada’s small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs). The platform allows SMEs to place targeted adverts on Facebook and Instagram. Once live, the adverts will […]

Snap Inc said it is launching a studio to help brands create augmented reality advertising and experiences, part of a move to popularise the use of technology that can overlay computer-generated images onto a person’s view of the real world. The owner of photo messaging app Snapchat first became popular with young users for its […]

The name is Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, but it’s more commonly called GPT-3. Since its release in May 2020, the AI, language generation model created by OpenAI has received substantial attention. This is a third-generation Natural Language Generation model that produces human-like language at scale, and is available as an application program interface (API). In […]

TLDR: The number of searches for a brand, divided by the number of searches for all brands in the same category, can predict the market share. Attaching value to a marketing campaign is the goal of every agency. Can share of search (SOS) be a valuable tool to predict market impact?   Marketers tend to use […]

Podcasts are going mainstream and consumers who subscribe to six or more (which NCS calls “Power Subscribers”) do more than simply listen to their favourite programs; they actively discover and buy the products advertised in the audiocast. Sixty-eight per cent of Power Subscribers have made a purchase compared to 42 per cent of all podcast […]

TLDR: The RFM score is calculated as follows: (Recency score x Recency weight) + (Frequency score x Frequency weight) + (Monetary score x Monetary weight). RFM analysis is an underestimated concept that needs to be the centre of every personalisation strategy, especially on the eCommerce platforms. Featuring over 600,000 plants, 200 million plant images, the […]

The Saudi Sports Co. (SSC) has appointed MBC Media Solutions (MMS), the in-house commercial advertising and sales unit of MBC Group, as exclusive advertising representative for its 2021-22 season. This will include the Prince Mohammad bin Salman Pro League, the King Cup, and the Saudi Super Cup. SSC also recently signed a contract with MBC […]

It’s not only customer experience that has become the core of business strategies but customers themselves. With shoppable user-generated content (UGC) as the current marketing trend, brands anchor their loyal customers to fuel their business strategies. A recent DemandGen report revealed that over 90 per cent of buyers prefer interactive and visual content over traditional […]