Press Releases
Vue Entertainment Partners with Urban Airship To Deliver the U.K.’s First Movie Tickets on Google Pay
7 Dec 2018
The combination of Google Pay’s new ticket support and the Urban Airship platform offer easy creation and distribution of tickets, which Vue is rolling out first to its portfolio of paperless sites. Beyond obvious efficiencies of more quickly ushering guest into auditoriums, customers can receive personalized offers through their ticket, whether that is a VIP seat upgrade or special promotions for specific showings, providing a premium experience.
Read More »Urban Airship Receives Highest Product Scores in Three of Four Use Cases in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Mobile Marketing Platforms
8 Nov 2018
Gartner evaluated 15 mobile marketing platform vendors as part of the Critical Capabilities report, an essential companion report to the Gartner Magic Quadrant, offering a comparative analysis that scores competing products or services against a set of critical differentiators identified by Gartner.
Read More »Urban Airship Expands Senior Leadership Team With VP Appointments for Sales and Product Marketing
25 Oct 2018
Simone Kriz and Jessica Mattson bring an incredible set of leadership skills and enterprise experience to build and hone Urban Airship's teams, and scale up to the growing demand and new opportunities we see globally, says CEO and president Brett Caine
Read More »Tech Entrepreneur and Investor Wes Nichols Joins Urban Airship’s Board of Directors
18 Oct 2018
“As an independent Board of Directors member, Wes brings an incredible breadth of experience and expertise in many areas our customers have strategic requirements along with a keen eye for what’s top of mind for today’s CMOs,” said Brett Caine, CEO and president, Urban Airship. “His guidance will accelerate our efforts to enable marketers to make direct connections with their customers anytime, anywhere, using the real-time customer data, breadth of channels and global scale that our open platform uniquely provides.”
Read More »Urban Airship Urges Companies to Adopt New App Notification Practices with Advancements Coming to iOS 12
10 Sep 2018
A historic move by Apple allows apps to offer a trial of “quiet” notifications prior to obtaining opt-in consent. Together with more granular user controls over notifications, app publishers have an urgent need to adopt customer-centric messaging best practices in order to accommodate new user behavior, improve notification visibility and maximize the value that their app can deliver.
Read More »Urban Airship Sets Message Delivery Speed Records During the 2018 FIFA World Cup
22 Aug 2018
Urban Airship increased its platform's peak messaging throughput by 33% during the World Cup Final. This accelerated delivery of push notifications is set for dramatic gains with today's general availability of Boost, a new software optimization service running on top of Google Cloud Platform.
Read More »Urban Airship Named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms
18 Jul 2018
“We believe Gartner’s recognition of Urban Airship as a Leader is validation of our market-leading ability to set new standards for customer experience by powering real-time interactions across any channel — apps, websites, mobile wallets, email, SMS, voice and more,” said Brett Caine, CEO and president, Urban Airship. “Only Urban Airship’s open platform unlocks the value and actionability of real-time data, giving marketers the control to take action on it anywhere, including maximizing their use of customer data, automation and predictive machine learning across existing solution investments. This gives the marketer more visibility, capability and flexibility than they've ever had before.”
Read More »Urban Airship Unveils Global Digital Engagement Forum to Visit 15 Cities in 2018
12 Jul 2018
The Digital Engagement Forum 2018 is a global event series designed to arm digital marketers with strategies and practices needed to build deeper relationships with their customers. Join us for candid conversations with leading digital marketing minds for practical advice to rise above the noise and create more valuable customer connections across multiple channels.
Read More »Urban Airship Lands $25 Million to Further Accelerate Global Growth of its Rapidly Expanding Customer Engagement Platform
21 Jun 2018
Already operating at financial break-even, Urban Airship will use the new funds to accelerate global sales, marketing, customer success and product innovation — integrating new customer engagement channels while extending its growth into new industries and markets.
Read More »Urban Airship Powers Real-Time Mobile Wallet Tickets and Boarding Passes with Google Pay
8 May 2018
Leveraging its experience delivering real-time updates to 250 million travelers a year, Urban Airship worked with Google Pay to create streamlined and engaging ticketing and boarding pass experiences. With today's announcements at Google I/O, Urban Airship is the first digital customer engagement platform to support these new ticket types, unlocking the opportunity for many types of businesses to easily provide best-in-class user experiences that maximize customer convenience and unlock new opportunities to deliver hyper-relevant offers for greater revenue.
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Urban Airship® is trusted by thousands of businesses to drive growth with digital customer engagement. Every day, marketers and developers depend on Urban Airship to deliver billions of personalized, interactive notifications that inspire interest and drive action across all digital channels. Urban Airship is used by many of the world’s most admired companies, including Adidas, Alaska Airlines, The Home Depot, NBCUniversal, Sky Plc and Zillow.
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