
Mobile video ad spending will account for 75 percent of all digital video ad investments by 2023, says Frost & Sullivan
Mobile Channels Offer New Growth Opportunities in the Online Video Advertising Space The growth of over-the-top (OTT) and user-generated digital video content in the current multi-screen environment is creating strong demand for monetization technologies among both content owners and advertisers. The targetability, personalization capabilities, and interactivity offered by online video …

More than Half of Consumers Use Mobile Apps When Shopping In-store
Yes Marketing finds more than half of consumers are using smartphones and mobile devices to enhance their in-store shopping experience Whether it’s to find and redeem coupons or to locate sale items, more than half of consumers (57 percent) have used a retailer’s mobile app while in-store, indicating that the …

Marketers signing up for data-driven marketing platform
Datable Technology signs three licensing agreements VANCOUVER–Datable Technology Corp. has signed three new license agreements for PLATFORM³, its Software as a Service (SaaS) consumer marketing platform, with leading brands including two repeat customers and one new customer. These agreements will generate $53,000 in licensing revenues plus transaction revenues. The Company …

Global Benchmarks 2.0 Tracks Marketers App Performance, Competition
Adds 5 new marketing metrics – including Click Through Rate, Cost Per Click and Distribution of Fraud Types SAN FRANCISCO–Adjust, the global mobile measurement and fraud prevention leader, today announced the second version of its popular free Global Benchmarks, updated with even more sophisticated metrics and a wider range of …

Fighting Mobile Ad Fraud, Kochava Releases Campaign Traffic Insights Report
Index ranks media partners based on the completeness of data sent, fraud, quality, and strength of correlation between clicks and installs Kochava Inc., which provides measurement and attribution for mobile and connected devices, today announces the Kochava Traffic Index, an objective, data-driven ranking of media partners available to marketers as …

How best to leverage mobile marketing trends
Customers are mobile and digital. So should marketing. Here’s how By Geoff Linton and Ryan Antooa According to Forrester Research, digital marketing spending in the U.S. will surpass $118 billion in 2018. Four of the top vehicles: paid search, display, on-line and email are growing between 8% – 18% compound …

Mobile conversion rate equals desktop for first time–survey
New Yes Lifecycle Marketing report reveals milestone in mobile, identifies opportunities to optimize mobile path-to-purchase Toronto–Email marketing reached a new milestone at the end of 2017. For the first time, orders per click for desktop and mobile were equivalent at 3.3 percent, according to data released today by Yes Lifecycle …
RBC first bank in Canada to enable bill payments using Siri
New capabilities also include the launch of seamless P2P transfers within iMessage, further strengthening RBC’s award-winning mobile banking app TORONTO — Who doesn’t wish they had an assistant to pay their bills? Thanks to an update to the RBC Mobile app, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) personal banking clients are …
Your location says a lot about you
How EQ Works is using location data to extrapolate customer profiles Marketing based on a person’s location is not a new phenomenon. This has been a popular tactic for about as long as the marketing profession has been around. Fifty years ago, advertisers placing an ad in the New York …
Canadian retailers view mobile commerce as the way of the future: AMEX study
American Express study indicates 72 per cent of retailers believe new technology adoption is critical to survival TORONTO –– Canadian retailers are recognizing how important the adoption of digital and mobile technologies are in the face of rising consumer demand and new competitors entering the Canadian retail industry, according to the …