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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
InMobi, a global provider of enterprise platforms for marketers, announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to enable new-age CMOs in their transformational journey from digital to mobile marketing. The partnership will consist of InMobi moving to Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud provider, and will involve technology collaboration and combined go-to-market strategies aimed at accelerating the way […]
To drive McDelivery orders this World Cup season, McDonald’s, OMD Hong Kong and Google have come together to reach excited football fans when they are most hungry. Through the market-first application of Google’s Real-Time Trigger with a Data Management Platform (DMP), McDonald’s can anticipate the “hungry moments” during matches ahead of the competition and entice […]
Shropshire digital agency Reech is helping Premier League football stars of the future thanks to the development of a new academy app. Reech, based in Shrewsbury, has created the app for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC to enable its young academy players and their families to have easy access to training schedules, coaching tips and more. The […]
Mobile technology provider Cloudbanter is offering mobile users worldwide the opportunity to gain rewards such as cash back, SMS, airtime, data allowance and other rewards, in return for the data they give up to advertisers and content providers on their phones. Cloudbanter’s ongoing user incentive points rewards scheme (My Rewards) offers mobile users the chance […]
AI-powered personalisation firm Neura has announced Neura Moments, a new solution aimed at creating a synthesis of a user’s real-life situation in a specific context, place and time to produce a situation-aware, actionable opportunity with predictable intent. Neura Moments are designed to combine with the recently-announced Neura True Personas to uncover new customer engagement opportunities for product […]
Thin Film Electronics ASA, a global leader in NFC (near field communication) mobile marketing solutions, announced el Jimador Tequila as a new customer. El Jimador – a leading tequila brand of Brown-Forman, one of the largest American-owned companies in the wine and spirits industry – will use Thinfilm’s complete NFC mobile marketing solution to enhance marketing efforts […]