Mobile payments awareness grows, cash use declines; consumers demand more to make the leap to mobile, Accenture survey finds
TORONTO — Sixty-three percent of consumers in Canada use cash at least weekly to make purchases at a merchant location, down five percentage points from 2015 – the most significant decline in use of traditional payment methods over the past year, according to a new report from Accenture. Awareness of …
comScore introduces mobile audience campaign reporting in Canada, UK
Launch enables more comprehensive measurement of campaign demographics and GRPs within comScore vCE RESTON, VA – comScore today announced the expansion of its mobile demographic reporting capabilities in validated Campaign Essentials™ (vCE®) to Canada and the United Kingdom. Through the addition of demographic data partners, including recently-added Spotify, this latest vCE …
Pokémon GO: Tapping into augmented reality to drive location marketing
Since launching in July, Pokémon GO has become an international sensation—and has turned its creator, Niantic Labs, into a location marketing powerhouse for businesses that operate brick-and-mortar locations. The free augmented reality game that allows trainers to catch virtual Pokémon around them has become one of the most popular apps …
Moneris continues contactless payment leadership in Canada as Apple Pay expands
With 25 per cent of payments resulting from contactless transactions today, Moneris expects growth to increase with broader adoption of Apple Pay TORONTO, ON — Moneris Solutions Corporation (“Moneris”), one of North America’s leading credit and debit card processors, welcomes the Canadian expansion of Apple Pay enablement for Interac, Visa …
Know what your consumers really want, thanks to cognitive commerce
The world is awash in data, most of it unstructured, and the volume is growing rampantly. Consider that by 2020, it’s expected there will be 44 zettabytes of data in the world—the equivalent of 170 newspapers being delivered daily to every man, woman and child on the planet. What’s more, …
MasterCard, BMO introduce first biometric corporate card program in Canada, U.S.
BMO Financial Group (BMO) and MasterCard have begun a phased launch of Identity Check, the first biometric credit card program in Canada and the U.S. that will enable cardholders to verify transactions using facial recognition and fingerprint biometrics. Quickly dubbed “Selfie Pay” by the media, Identity Check will be used …
BMO Financial Group and MasterCard begin roll-out of first in Canada and U.S. biometric corporate card program
Corporate cardholders will be able to use selfies and fingerprint scans to verify their identify when making online purchases TORONTO — BMO Financial Group (BMO) and MasterCard today marked the beginning of phased launch of the first biometric corporate credit card program in Canada and the U.S. that will enable cardholders to …
MEDIATIVE reveals key findings to help businesses and brands adapt to the mobile search reality
PRESS RELEASE: TORONTO — MEDIATIVE, one of Canada’s leading integrated advertising and digital marketing companies, has released a unique, in-depth study examining consumer search behaviour on mobile devices. The study entitled, How do consumers conduct searches on Google using a mobile device, employed eye-tracking technology to measure click rate and looking …
Yellow Pages Limited acquires JUICE Mobile
PRESS RELEASE: MONTREAL — Yellow Pages Limited announced today that it will acquire JUICE Mobile , a premium advertising technology company whose proprietary programmatic platforms facilitate the automatic buying and selling of mobile advertising between brands and publishers. The acquisition will close and take effect on March 17, 2016 and …
Marketing’s mobile shift
Marketing planning becomes challenging as the mobile landscape is always shifting. The ways in which consumers behave and consume media has changed. Today’s consumers use multiple devices throughout the day to research, connect and shop. To add to the complexity, today’s hyper-connected consumer often uses multiple devices at once! Marketers …