Digital consumer intelligence company Brandwatch has brought its new flagship product Consumer Research to market. The unified platform follows the merger between industry-leaders Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon, and marries the best of both technologies. The merger in October 2018 created a $100m SaaS company, with 2,200 customers including 39 of the Fortune 100. The new […]
The average person will spend 100 minutes each day watching online video in 2021, up from 84 minutes this year, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2019 report, published on September 16. That’s the equivalent of watching 25 continuous days of video in 2021. The amount of time people spend viewing online video has grown […]
UK consumers are more happy with the experiences being offered by retailers online than their global counterparts – but most only shop regularly shop with three online retailers. According to an analysis of 33,500 online shoppers across 17 countries – with 2,000 from the UK – by Google and Kantar, 79 per cent of UK […]
Location Sciences, the leading mobile location data and intelligence expert, has announced a contract with Vicinity Media, Africa’s first premium location-based ad network. The partnership will see Vicinity run verification on all its location impressions. Vicinity Media initially implemented Verify, Location Sciences’ proprietary location verification platform, to carry out an independent audit of its location […]
Investment in UK-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies has reached record levels after the first six months of 2019 saw more investment than the entirety of last year, according to new data. Venture capitalists had invested $1.63bn (£1.32bn) into UK projects by June, surpassing the $1.21bn raised by the end of 2018 and marking a record […]
Game analytics platform GameAnalytics has released its Mobile Games Benchmark report, which analyses how gamers play and pay on their smartphones. The report highlights performance benchmarks for key metrics across the top 16 genres, including retention, session length, stickiness, conversion rate, ARPPU (Average Revenue Per Paying User) and ARPDAU (Average Revenue Per Daily Active User). GameAnalytics also […]
Global Digital Agency Isobar has published a ‘XR playbook’, a guide to help marketers leverage XR to support creative experiences and drive business growth. It looks at the history of technology and shares Isobar’s view of the XR landscape and the opportunities that the technology has for marketers. It also discusses the role of human-insight […]
Cheil Worldwide has used augmented reality and virtual reality to bring the Great Gate of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897) back to life, more than 104 years after it was destroyed. The Donuimun Gate, one of the Four Great Gates in the City Wall of Seoul, was destroyed in 1915 during the Japanese colonial period. In […]
A new global study from ESOMAR and HERE Technologies, along with research partners BuzzBack Research, and Cint, shows that transparency around consumer data collection brands can potentially have a significant impact on both consumer trust and sales. The study, which surveyed over 10,000 consumers in 10 markets, found that 37% of consumers in the UK […]
Despite being the first generation to grow up online, new data reveals that Generation Z (age up to 23) are the age group most likely to be influenced by what they see on the internet. Adobe’s Across The Generations study surveyed 1,200 UK consumers evenly distributed across Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X and Baby Boomers. It found that […]