AOL's Periscope Rival Signs First Moneymaking Brand Deal

AOL has a live-streaming app, too. A couple months after it acquired mobile app maker Kanvas Labs in August, it released an updated version of Kanvas' photo-and-video-sharing app that added live-streaming to rival Twitter's Periscope, Meerkat and Facebook Live. And now it's signed its first moneymaking deal with a marketer.Clothing brand Guess will use AOL's Kanvas to promote its #GuessAllAccess campaign by live-streaming an event the brand is throwing in Miami on Tuesday with Flaunt Magazine. The campaign marks the brand's first foray into the mobile live-streaming space that emerged earlier this year with the launches of Periscope and Meerkat.A brand trying out a new piece of technology isn't necessarily newsworthy. It happens fairly often and usually for free. However in the case of Kanvas and Guess, there's money being spent. "If money changes hands, the bar is raised in terms of the experience that you have to deliver on both sides," said Kanvas Labs co-founder Vic Singh. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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