TripAdvisor is overhauling its website and mobile experience, introducing a more social and personal approach to travelling and eating out. The new TripAdvisor, which is currently in beta ahead of its official launch later in 2018, will expand this site’s community beyond travellers to include brands, social influencers, publishers, and friends – enabling users to […]
I talk to online retailers every day and many of their comments revolve around a feeling of nostalgia for the days when things were simpler. We seemed to know instinctively who the shoppers in our store were, and so we implicitly understood what they wanted and how to give them a great experience. But today […]
Instagram is having more and more impact on people’s decisions every day with the app leading a quarter of its UK users to make a purchase based on content they’ve seen. According to a YouGov survey of 500 Instagram users in the UK, commissioned by influencing marketing platform Takumi, 25 per cent of UK Instagram users […]
Almost half of businesses invest at least $500,000 in digital marketing every year, according to a new survey. The research, from The Manifest, a business news and how-to website, found that forty-one percent (41%) of businesses spend at least $500,000 on digital marketing annually, and 81% spend at least $50,000. The survey of 500 digital marketers […]
TigerWit Limited, a UK-headquartered global financial technology company, launched its blockchain-based trading app and announced a partnership with Liverpool FC. As the ‘Official Foreign Exchange Trading Partner of Liverpool FC’ the sponsorship agreement provides TigerWit with a high-profile opportunity to increase its brand recognition. This visibility should drive downloads of its innovative new trading app […]
Dentsu Aegis Network’s Amplifi has signed a deal with Spotify to use its first-party data in a new audio planning tool, that will allow brands to buy across radio and digital audio. The Audio Stack will use M1 survey data alongside Spotify’s data to better reach target audiences when they are listening to audio. The […]
Mobile lockscreen advertising is emerging as a successful element of US marketing campaigns as once-skeptical businesses reap impactful consumer engagement, according to a new white paper by Buzzvil, a lockscreen advertising platform. The report, ‘The State of Lockscreen Advertising: Engagement, Revenue and Apprehension in a New Era of Mobile Advertising,’ documents a growth spurt in the […]
JET8 is a Singapore-based, global social media platform with technology that allows brands, agencies and influencers to engage and sell to social communities through user-generated mobile content. Using JET8’s social currency, JETS, users of JET8 apps are rewarded for their influence as they engage with the brands and communities they love. For every in-app like, […]
YouTube is embracing vertical video ads to let brands “provide a more seamless mobile experience” for viewers, it revealed at DMEXCO on September 12 where it also revealed plans to sell advertisers video ads based on users’ personalised home feeds. Advertisers can now snap up slots that fill up a users’ screen when they’re viewing […]
BBC News is launching a weekly news programme on Facebook Watch. Set to launch later in 2018, Cut Through The Noise will be the social media platform’s first funded non-US news programme. It is to focus on a different issue each week and will be set in BBC News’ Washington bureau or elsewhere in the […]