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Verizon’s new marketing tool sets emails to arrive when you look at your inbox

Article | April 10, 2020

Verizon quietly introduced a new email marketing feature yesterday that it calls “View Time Optimization,” which the company says automatically times emails from companies to arrive the moment you’re looking at your email inbox, so it sits at the very top as a new message. The service is part of Verizon’s suite of email and web advertising properties, which includes AOL and Yahoo, and well-known programmer David Heinemeier Hansson (the inventor of the Ruby on Rails web application framework) called out Verizon on Twitter on Friday for what he calls an “Orwellian” ad placement tool.

Channel 4 slashes content budget owing to advertisement revenue drop

Article | April 9, 2020

Channel 4 is expected to cut its programming budget by nearly £150 million while furloughing about 100 staff to fight and survive any financial woes brought by the coronavirus crisis. The broadcaster, that is mostly funded by TV advertising, as well as being publicly owned expects to face a slump in the advertising revenue by 50% in the coming two months. It was estimated that Channel 4 was left with finances for six months only without having to make any cuts. The management of the broadcaster that includes Ian Katz, the director of programs as well as Alex Mahon, the chief executive will be taking a pay cut of 20% and will also not be receiving any bonus. Channel 4 also made an announcement that about 10% out of over 900 staff are expected to be furloughed.

Apple will now allow ads in app notifications on iPhones and iPads

Article | March 6, 2020

Apple has updated its App Store guidelines, with a new report on the matter by 9to5Mac stating that the company will now allow apps to push advertisements, promotions, and marketing material on push notifications on iOS. However, Apple has stated that while push notifications with advertisements can now be sent on iOS devices, app developers will need to offer its users with a clear option to opt out of receiving such material on notifications, and the makers of the apps will need to receive explicit permission from users before delivering ads to their devices.

How proximity marketing and advertising can help you save the high road

Article | March 16, 2020

When Apple launched iBeacons in 2013, proximity promoting turned the industry’s favourite development. With the right technologies, this hyper-localised tactic was meant to bridge the divide in between on the internet content and offline buyer action but Apple’s iBeacon platform in the end unsuccessful to just take off. Google’s beacon process has loved additional results and created an open up-supply natural environment for builders. Regardless, beacons have not taken around the promoting world in the way so several predicted, nevertheless, some of the world’s biggest makes are redefining the purchaser knowledge with proximity promoting – with or with no beacons.