Here's Everything You Need to Know About Mobile Payments

Daily Digest March 05, 2015

Here's Everything You Need to Know About Mobile Payments It's a complicated mess, to say the least By Lauren Johnson March 5, 2015, 9:00 AM EST During this week's Mobile World Congress in Spain, Google announced it is getting into mobile payments with a technology called Android Pay that lets people buy things by tapping their phones at cash ... Read more »

How to Pronounce 15 Brand Names You've Probably Been Saying Wrong Never sound foolish again By David Gianatasio March 4, 2015, 3:00 PM EST

What Will the 'Slow TV' Phenomenon Look Like If It Comes to the U.S.? Uninterrupted footage of a chair being assembled? Sold! By Sam Thielman March 4, 2015, 5:49 PM EST

170 U.S. Brands Are Already Using This Ad Tech That Can Target People in a Specific Building xAd shows how precise location data is getting By Christopher Heine March 4, 2015, 3:27 PM EST

24 Hours in Advertising: Thursday, March 5, 2015 Tinder goes on a wild adventure and Instagram debuts new ad features By Katie Richards March 5, 2015, 12:00 AM EST Here's everything you need to know about the last 24 hours in advertising, in case you blinked. Read more »

Vince Vaughn's Hilarious Stock Photos Were Made From These Equally Ludicrous Originals Check out the great Photoshopping work By Alfred Maskeroni March 5, 2015, 9:46 AM EST By now, you've probably seen Fox and Getty's wonderful promotion for the movie Unfinished Business, with Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson posing for boringly clever stock photos. Read more »

With 1.7 Million New Users a Day, Will This App Be the Next to Take America by Storm? Line's revenue-generating model has brands queuing up By Christopher Heine March 4, 2015, 12:18 PM EST Line, which has 181 million monthly active users worldwide, has yet to truly market its mobile app in the United States. But the Japan-based messaging platform has already built up 25 million American users while its ... Read more »

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Instagram Unveils New Features for Advertisers, From Carousel-Style Photos to Web Links Now, it's more than a billboard for brands By Garett Sloane March 4, 2015, 12:57 PM EST Instagram ads are getting the carousel treatment along with links, the photo-sharing app announced today. These crucial new ad features signal a maturing Instagram, which has been slowly increasing its marketing ... Read more »

Oreo Gets 10 Artists to Produce Beautifully Dreamy Outdoor Illustrations Creative expressions of 'play' By Tim Nudd March 4, 2015, 7:58 AM EST The "Play with OREO" campaign, which launched in January, continues this month with a lovely new set of out-of-home ads featuring groovy illustrations from 10 artists. Read more »

These New Internet Service Ads Aren't Trying to Be Funny, Just Factual With a Wink Arnold debuts its first ads for CenturyLink By Andrew McMains March 5, 2015, 9:00 AM EST Quiet, plain spoken and droll, CenturyLink's ad campaign from its new lead agency, Arnold, eschews the punch lines of rivals like Time Warner Cable, Optimum and Fios. Read more »