Analytics: the £25 billion mistake

Analytics: the £25 billion mistake

In just two very short years the analytics market in the UK will have doubled to be worth a staggering £25 billion. It is already the second largest market in the world, and the biggest in Europe. UK boardrooms are awash with data and insight all designed to help them perform better than their competitors. […]

New fashion app Enty puts personal stylists in your pocket

New fashion app Enty puts personal stylists in your pocket

A fashion app has launched offering women access to advice from personal stylists at any time and day of the week. Enty, founded by entrepreneur Sophia Matveeva, enables users to get professional advice from more than 140 global fashion professionals Through artificial intelligence, the app is able to learn user tastes and global trends. The fashion […]

Tappx appoints Fernando Saiz as Chief Marketing Officer

Tappx appoints Fernando Saiz as Chief Marketing Officer

Tappx, the one-stop-shop adtech solution for user acquisition and mobile app monetisation, announced that Fernando Saiz has been named as its new chief marketing officer. Based in Barcelona, Saiz takes up responsibilities for Tappx’s integrated marketing strategy, global marketing team and brings considerable digital marketing expertise. Saiz has been promoted from within the ranks of […]

17 million think they use their smartphones too much: will measurement be the answer?

17 million think they use their smartphones too much: will measurement be the answer?

Thirty-nine percent of smartphone users in the UK – the equivalent of 17 million people – believe they use their smartphone too much, according to the latest research from Deloitte. Generation Z smartphone users (16-24 years-old) are particularly concerned about their usage habits, with 61% (4.3m young people) believing they use their device too much. Deloitte’s […]

GroupM’s Xaxis launches six-second video ad format

GroupM’s Xaxis launches six-second video ad format

Xaxis, GroupM’s programmatic media company, has launched a short-form video product, enabling clients to run campaigns across platforms run by the likes of Twitter, Snap, Spotify, and Global. The mobile-first, six-second video ad format is compatible alongside other Xaxis video products and, according to the company, enables advertisers to reach 27m UK consumers in a […]

Alibaba launches new technology for broadcasting ahead of Tokyo 2020

Alibaba launches new technology for broadcasting ahead of Tokyo 2020

Alibaba has built on its partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official cloud service provider by launching a new broadcasting solution for the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) through its cloud computing division. It was announced on September 19 on stage at Alibaba’s cloud computing conference in Hangzhou by Simon Hu, senior vice president […]

Rovio unveils new Angry Birds game for Magic Leap

Rovio unveils new Angry Birds game for Magic Leap

 Rovio Entertainment and Resolution Games revealed details of their upcoming mixed reality (MR) game for Magic Leap One Creator Edition, Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot. Coming this autumn, Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot will provide a first-person slingshot to let players see incredibly realistic animated characters and objects overlaid onto their actual environment, bringing […]

Research proves high-impact digital display ads generate an amplification effect for standard media

Research proves high-impact digital display ads generate an amplification effect for standard media

New research released today by Inskin Media and Lumen Research using a large-scale audience eye-tracking study has proved that high-impact formats, such as pageskins, can help draw consumers’ eyes to standard formats for longer. The UK study, in partnership with Mindshare, carried out 3,160 eye tracking experiments and revealed that, within a browsing session, standard display […]

New report reveals organisational mindset driving digital effectiveness

New report reveals organisational mindset driving digital effectiveness

A new survey into digital effectiveness has revealed that ‘Product Thinking’ is helping organisations become more digitally effective. The research carried out by digital agency Code Computerlove, a fore-runner of product thinking as an approach, found some clear differences in the attitude, behaviours and methodologies of top-performing business versus the mainstream when it comes to their […]