Advertising is the heart of most Internet companies, digital publishers, and apps. In the absence of quality advertising, great journalism, music, film, games and culture will either disappear behind a paywall–thus making the Internet closed and, quite literally, unfree–or disappear completely. We spoke with Josh Jacobs, President of Kik Services at Kik Messenger, about using ads to monetize the platform. Sponsored content by AppNexus The post How Kik is using chatbots to monetize mobile messaging appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'
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Twentieth Century Fox wants to talk to teens the way that they do with their friends, so it's using GIFs to chat with them on mobile messaging app Kik. The film studio and agency Trailer Park are launching a campaign today for the sci-fi flick Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the sequel to... Continue reading at AdWeek
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[caption id="attachment_180434" align="alignright" width="300"] Click image to download the Playbook[/caption] Long before Apple introduced Intelligent Tracking Protection in its Safari browsers—making traffic “anonymous” and untargetable in advertisers’ minds—publishers were struggling to... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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The BBC has joined the growing throng of publishers to embrace vertical video on its mobile apps. And it plans to monetize its international app with vertical video ads. The format, made popular due to Snapchat, is becoming a larger part of other publisher video plans including The Sun, Mail... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kik has launched its own chatbot shop, further opening the floodgates to users who want to engage with messaging apps from brands and publishers arriving on the Canadian messaging platform. Starting today, Kik's Bot Shop will begin allowing users to download bots for entertainment, customer... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Monetising mobile audiences remains a massive challenge for publishers across the world, and those attending Digiday's Europe Publishing Summit were quick to point out the most pressing headaches. For the Economist, it's maintaining the reader's attention. For the BBC that means creating great... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the past making money from a mobile app has usually involved signing up to an advertisement network and allowing the app to display banner ads. The problem with this is that it doesn't make for a particularly good user experience and may actually turn people off using the app. For some time... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2015-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Across the globe, mobile apps have become one of the most popular channels to access content for users. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boku, a mobile payments company that works with Facebook and Sony, thinks text messaging can help magazine publishers boost their subscription revenue.If nothing else, it might cut down on the number of subscription notices -- otherwise known as "blow in" cards -- tucked inside magazines.The San... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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PayPal president David Marcus has left to steer mobile messaging at Facebook. Facebook claims that its standalone messaging app, called Messenger, is now used by more than 200 million people monthly. And the company's blog post today suggested that Marcus would lead that specific part of the... Continue reading at AdWeek
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Facing threats from Apple and Facebook, Google is teaming up with web publishers to cut down page load times on smartphones. “Accelerated Mobile Pages,” or AMP, is an open framework for building lightweight webpages, optimized for mobile devices. The move is a direct answer to rival initiatives... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some of the U.K.’s leading premium publishers gathered together for the Association of Online Publishers’ Autumn conference on Thursday in London. Top of the agenda was the issue of cross-platform publishing and the challenges pub ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The social media platform has partnered with several digital media networks, including GSTV, Redbox and ReachTV as part of a larger push into digital out-of-home. Continue reading at Advertising Age
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Just five months after Anthropic debuted its ChatGPT rival, Claude, the company is back with an updated version that promises longer answers, more detailed reasonings, fewer hallucinations and generally better performance. It also now scores in the 90th percentile of graduate school applicants... Continue reading at Engadget
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The ALA’s first-ever Rally for the Right to Read featured librarians and advocates speaking of the need to fight censorship and a keynote from author Ibram X. Kendi, who praised librarians as modern-day freedom fighters. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 today, its next-gen large language model that is the technical foundation for both ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbots. It’s a profound upgrade, potentially opening the door for major advances in both the capabilities and features of today’s AI... Continue reading at PC World
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree and Center for Fiction and VCU Cabell First Novel prize finalist Lydia Kiesling’s second novel, Mobility, which this August will be the first book to be published on the new imprint from Crooked Media,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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'Last Light,' a recent book by former Time magazine critic Richard Lacayo, draws on six artists' lives to prove that younger isn't always better. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Netflix is adding two more releases to its excellent library of games. The streaming giant announced Monday it recently secured exclusive mobile rights to Dust & Neon and Highwater, two upcoming titles from indie publisher Rogue Games. Of the two, the former will arrive first when it hits... Continue reading at Engadget
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Nearly six months after he was brutally attacked, Rushdie is recovering and releasing a new novel, with the literary world rallying to his side. Continue reading at The New York Times
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