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Today marks the release of the second edition of our Marketer’s Guide to series which looks into mobile data. The first in the series looked at mobile viewability here.

With mobile ad spend set to hit 80.6% of total digital ad spend globally by 2020, marketers should feel confident in discussing how data is used to reach their consumers on mobile.

Download the guide to learn:

• What data can be gathered on mobile and how to use it effectively
• GDPR & data – what you really need to know
• Data challenges and how to address them

Download your free copy here.

[vc_row el_class=”black blog-posts” css=”.vc_custom_1530289755067{padding-bottom: 10% !important;}”]The FIFA 2018 World Cup™, is set to be one of the biggest sporting events of the year, with an estimated 3.2 billion viewers expected to tune in over the next month.

Brands look to capitalise on the mass attention by creating engaging content across all channels. To celebrate the start of the World Cup, we asked Loopers their most memorable ad campaigns to get you into the spirit. Here’s what they said .

Visa recently partnered with Zlatan Ibrahimović to produce a timely ad campaign used speculation around whether Zlatan was going to come out of retirement and compete at the World Cup to promote their ‘everywhere you want to be’ slogan.

Second on our list is Wieden + Kennedy’s epic campaign for Nike. The ‘Write the Future’ ad, first released in the run up to 2010 World Cup is a fast-paced, dynamic campaign encompassing all the emotion of a World Cup match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_i3Lcjli84

Another office favourite is R/GA’s, ‘The Game Before The Game’ due to its clever user of influencers in combination with an awesome soundtrack. Keep an eye out for stars including Nicki Minaj, Thierry Henry, Serena Williams, Luis Suárez and many more.

As R/GA point out in their case study, back in 2014 Beats wasn’t a sponsor and they weren’t even a sports brand. Plus they’d been banned by FIFA. So, this was all about cutting through the clutter – without actually mentioning the World Cup.

Ciaran McCarthy, Creative Director at R/GA spoke at our sports marketing event back in January about the campaign.

Twenty years after footballer John Barnes appeared in the official song for the 1990 World Cup, Mars recruited him to reprise his role. Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YePFGhCC7ro

Agency Wieden + Kennedy created an ad to remember titled ‘Airport Football’ for Nike. This features the Brazilian national team seamlessly playing football through a busy airport, coupled with Tamba Trio’s ‘Mas Que Nada’ which is synonymous with Brazilian culture.

For more data and insights into how to reach a sporting audience, download our free sports marketing one-pager here.

[vc_row el_class=”black blog-posts” css=”.vc_custom_1530289744098{padding-bottom: 10% !important;}”]Back to school shopping is the second most important time for retailers, falling behind only the holidays. In 2017 alone, consumers spent $72.6 B in retail on back to school and college shopping. 60% of consumers are planning to start their back to school shopping in July.  Here are five stats you should know when crafting your marketing plan.

Want to read more on back to school stats? View our one pager here .

[vc_row el_class=”black blog-posts” css=”.vc_custom_1530289426141{padding-bottom: 10% !important;}”]Today marks the release of our guide ‘AI: Advertising & Beyond’, the follow up to our first guide on AI, created by LoopMe’s data scientists.

34% of marketing executives feel underprepared to handle AI compared to any other emerging technology.

While our first guide focused on the principles of AI, this guide, ‘AI: Advertising & Beyond’ takes a deeper dive into the realities of AI and look into how it affects the advertising industry and the wider world.

Download the guide to learn:

–      Which industries that are being dramatically transformed by AI and some companies to watch out for

–      How to express and analyse data

–      The importance of ‘big data’ and how maximise using AI in your ad campaigns

–      What it’s like to be a Data Scientist at LoopMe

Get your free copy here.

If you’d like to learn more about LoopMe’s AI sign up to our AI newsletter or contact us: marketing@loopme.com

Since its start in 1997 the IAB, in conjunction with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) have measured the size the digital advertising industry with in the UK and this one marked the 21^st edition.

The UK digital market continues to grow

2017 proved to be another hyper-growth year for the UK digital advertising industry, worth an estimated £11.55 billion. This is a 1.44 billion increase from 2016, equating to a 14.3% increase.

Smartphone is fuelling growth

It’s been well documented that smartphones are driving the growth of the digital economy of the last decade. 2017 proved to be no different with 45% of all digital advertising displayed on smartphone devices; an 8% increase from the previous year – this makes sense as comScore’s recent research found that the UK’s time spend online is 70% on mobile.

According the IAB & PwC the total smartphone market is believed to be £5.20 billion and that 45% of all digital advertising is on a smartphone.

Online video is the largest display format

The display advertising market is worth £4.18 billion and 61% of it is distributed on smartphone devices. Video advertising has the largest share of the display market totalling £1,609 million which is 39% of the share. This year saw 47% increase from last year for video advertising, which makes video the fastest growing display format for the last 5 years.

For the first time outstream / native video has overtaken pre-roll as the largest video format with 56% of the market share worth an estimated £900 million, showing that the market is coming to terms with more innovative formats. Clearly there’s an appetite for different video formats, which is why LoopMe offers all forms of mobile video, including native, pre-roll, vertical and 360.

Stephen Upstone, CEO & Co-founder of LoopMe commented:

“The growth in in the UK digital economy, especially the surge in display advertising, is an indicator that the market is continuing to think mobile first. We also encourage mobile marketers to think not just about the formats available but the metrics they’re using to measure success.”

Click here to download the full report from the IAB

This week LoopMe UK hosted AI: Advertising & Beyond at the British Museum in London. Over 150 attendees listened to thought-leaders and pioneers to explore AI’s impact on advertising, and also the wider world.

We heard from spokespeople including Leila Ratnani, Group Digital & Programmatic Director at Dentsu, Julia Lagan, Digital Strategy Director at creative agency FCB Inferno and Matthew Griffin, Futurist of the consultancy company 311 Institute. Attendees took part in VR experiences and had the opportunity to see how PurchaseLoop works in real-time.

For those unable to attend, or who’d like a quick recap – read on! To receive invites to our next event, sign up to our events mailing list.

AI is changing marketing

The morning was kicked-off by Lynette Saunders, Senior Analyst at Econsultancy in her keynote ‘The Quest for Real-Time Experiences’. Lynette discussed how AI should be at the forefront of marketer’s minds, giving successful examples of how the likes of Under Armour, Netflix and Amazon are using AI to increase their efficiency.

LoopMe’s GM International, Pete O’Mara-Kane presented ‘Closing the Loop’, an analysis of more than 150 campaigns run in 20 countries to explain best practice outcomes to help understand how to get the most from PurchaseLoop campaigns.

Following this, Pete interviewed Leonard Newnham, LoopMe’s Chief Data Scientist to debunk some of the myths and jargon around AI. A key takeaway from their conversation was a need to clarify the difference between machine learning and AI – which is also covered in our AI Guide.

Will AI take our jobs? What impact will it have on our industry? These were all addressed in the ‘AI: Risk & Reward’ panel led by Julie lagan. Julie was joined by Dane Hamer, Brand Creative & Media at 02, Alexandra Spiliotopoulou, Digital Strategy Lead at Merkle Periscopix, Michael Migliore, Senior Retention & Engagement Manager at News UK and Leila Ratnani. One point of difference in the panel was that Alexandra thinks AI will slowly take jobs, while Leila was adamant that won’t happen, rather they’ll do mundane tasks.

Part 1 of ‘AI: Advertising and Beyond’ concluded with a chat between LoopMe CEO and Co-Founder Stephen Upstone and John Taysom, NED and Co-Founder of Privitar. John, who has over 18 years of experience in investing in tech companies from discussed everything from the Cambridge Analytica debacle to the surge in the world’s largest economy – data.

After a short coffee break, we started part 2 with another panel discussion on the topic of Altruistic AI. Moderator Stephen Lepitak, Editor at The Drum was accompanied by Saqib Shaikh, Tech Lead of Microsoft ‘Seeing AI’ app, Roger Highfield, Director at the Science Museum and Chris Russell a Research Fellow in computer vision and Machine Learning at the Alan Turning Institute. The session was very insightful, especially in showing how AI is set to disrupt the healthcare industry, with companies such as Babylon Health and Benevolent AI lauded as ones to watch.

This year, The Times and creative agency Rothco teamed up and used AI to recreate JFK’s speech he was meant to deliver the day he was assasinated. Alan Kelly, Executive Creative Director of Rothco was interviewed by LoopMe’s Head of Marketing Lauren Bigland, to learn more about the campaign. In their conversation Alan explained how he was inspired to start the project through a family connection and how he saw the role of AI be used to enhance creativity.

We rounded things off by hearing from Matthew Griffin, founder of the 311 Institute discussing what the future holds in the next 50 years. Matthew emphasised the importance of AI and stated that we’re entering a dawn of a new era – ‘The Age of the Machine’.

Matthew stated that this new era will allow us to increase the rates of innovation in multiple industries (healthcare, advertising and finance) by up to 1000% as well as introducing us to the song ‘Break Free’, showing again how AI is set to disrupt many industries.

Thanks again to our brilliant speakers and attendees, we hope to see you all at another event soon!