L’Occitane boosts mobile conversions by 159 per cent with AI-powered personalisation

L’Occitane boosts mobile conversions by 159 per cent with AI-powered personalisation

Global beauty and cosmetics brand L’Occitane has adopted AI-powered personalisation on its mobile website, presenting changing products to users based on their behaviour in a social newsfeed-style experience, and resulting in a 159 per cent increase in conversion rates. The AI-powered platform was created by personalisation specialists Qubit, who used its Aura solution to bring the brand’s in-store […]

Trifacta’s Jeremy Perlman on preparing data to provide a personalised experience

Trifacta’s Jeremy Perlman on preparing data to provide a personalised experience

Personalisation is spending yet another year as one of the key retail and marketing trends driving success. Gartner cited it as key focus for 2018, calculating that 64 percent of marketing leaders are already using or planning to deploy personalisation technology across the buying journey. And with figures from McKinsey showing that well executed personalisation […]

PizzaExpress Turns Tables into Football Pitches with AR Game

PizzaExpress Turns Tables into Football Pitches with AR Game

 Restaurant chain PizzaExpress is looking to tap into consumer excitement around the World Cup with an AR game enabling customers to play a virtual game of football while sat at their table. The ‘Doughball‘ game, which is included as an update in the brand’s existing app, uses PizzaExpress’ iconic dough balls, and allows players to place […]

The Times signs up to Phrasee’s AI for optimised email subject line generation for marketing campaigns

The Times signs up to Phrasee’s AI for optimised email subject line generation for marketing campaigns

The Times and The Sunday Times, pioneers in the world of publishing, are embracing AI to power subscription revenue. The brands have signed with Phrasee for optimised email subject line generation for email marketing campaigns. This forms part of a brand-wide shift to embrace and work with new technologies. Phrasee’s AI technology generates and optimises marketing copy at scale. The […]

Criteo Invests €20M in Paris AI Lab to Define the Advertising Technologies of the Future

Criteo Invests €20M in Paris AI Lab to Define the Advertising Technologies of the Future

Criteo, the advertising platform for the open Internet, announced the launch of the Criteo AI Lab, a center of excellence dedicated to the creation, experimentation and at-scale deployment of machine learning technology. Backed by an investment of €20M over three years, the lab will be involved in research related to building deep models that are interpretable, […]

Elisa first in world to launch commercial 5G

Elisa first in world to launch commercial 5G

Finnish telecommunications company Elisa, has become the first operator in the world to begin commercial use of a 5G network and starts selling 5G subscriptions. The first person to use the 5G network was Anne Berner, Minister of Transport and Communications, who made a video call to Kadri Simson, Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure in […]

Instagram rolls out video chat along with other new features

Instagram rolls out video chat along with other new features

Instagram has rolled out video chat, giving users the chance to be part of up to four-person video calls via the app’s ‘Direct’ private messaging feature. With video chat, Instagram users can communicate with their friends via video without a phone number across both iOS and Android. The feature can be accessed through any message […]

Länsförsäkringar turn hate into love with new autocorrecting app The Nasty Filter

Länsförsäkringar turn hate into love with new autocorrecting app The Nasty Filter

After the World Cup game between Sweden and Germany on June 23, Swedish soccer player Jimmy Durmaz was exposed to a massive wave of race hate on social media. To make a clear statement against this abusive behaviour, the Swedish insurance agency Länsförsäkringar decided to launch a Nasty Filter app – a service that turns […]