With Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. going public today, analysts everywhere have weighed in with forecast and think pieces. But what about its potential for future client work? We spoke to three digital shops for their takes on the platform. Facebook's decision to imitate some of Snapchat's key features with new launches like Instagram Stories...
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Digital & Tech Daily
March 03, 2017
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3 takes from Resource/Ammirati, Edelman and Huge
By Erik Oster
With Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. going public today, analysts everywhere have weighed in with forecast and think pieces. But what about its potential for future client work? We spoke to three digital shops for their takes on the platform. Facebook's decision to imitate some of Snapchat's key features with new launches like Instagram Stories...
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And avoid Twitter's rocky relationship with investors
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Analyzed thousands of photos of Antoni Gaudí's buildings
By Marty Swant
BARCELONA, Spain--IBM has come up with a way to show off the more artistic side of its artificial intelligence capabilities while honoring one of Spain's most famous architects. For this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, IBM tasked its Watson super computer with the understanding Antoni Gaud?'s greatest works such as La Pedrera and la...
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Telefónica, Verizon and FourSquare see benefits
By Marty Swant
BARCELONA, Spain--Could mobile carriers band together to steal back advertising revenue from tech companies? It appears some telecoms are open to the idea of mobile network operators using their vast troves of data to create a new ecosystem for brands that want to reach users wherever they are. Their secret weapon? Location-based data, according to...
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Will let carriers become official broadcasters of the Games
By Marty Swant
BARCELONA, Spain--Discovery Communications is planning to partner with global mobile providers for the Olympics to let them become official mobile broadcasters of the quadrennial summer and winter games. Discovery--which has the exclusive TV and multimedia rights for 50 countries and territories from 2018 through 2024--will let mobile providers co-brand with the Olympics to drive more...
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Majority of the deals are focused on the Pacific region
By Marty Swant
BARCELONA, Spain--Vice Media is beginning to partner with global mobile carriers to make its video content available worldwide. With a series of eight deals announced today at Mobile World Congress, Vice will distribute content to more than 80 territories by the end of 2017. The additional partnerships will include original production, licensing, Viceland programming and...
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Capital One and Retale have tested it
By Lauren Johnson
For the past couple of years, Foursquare has been positioning itself as a serious business-to-business data player that connects digital ads with offline sales and works with companies like Snapchat and Nielsen to power location features and ad tracking. Now it's starting to license that data to brands. Today, the company is launching its own...
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Ad agencies are scouting in Spain for innovation
By Marty Swant
BARCELONA, Spain--As ad agencies increasingly buy or invest in the latest emerging tech, one is hosting its own pitch competition from within its organization to find ideas worth investing in and that it can use in campaigns by the end of the year. Today, during Mobile World Congress, WPP-owned agency Kinetic is holding a contest...
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