2019 so far has seen the struggles of the UK high street continue, with little sign of the crisis abating any time soon. According to research by retail technology expert Conversity, part of addressing these difficulties lies in retailers getting better at how they measure the success of customer interactions across all channels and touch points, […]
Snap Inc. announced the debut line-up of advertising partners for Commercials, Snapchat’s six-second unskippable ads that run across Snapchat Shows in the UK. EE and Mars are among the first advertisers to take advantage of the new ad format which will be available across the entire Shows platform in the UK. Commercials are available through Snap’s […]
More than 70 per cent of shoppers are willing to try cross-channel shopping methods, according to the results of a study carried out by Periscope By McKinsey. The company polled 2,624 consumers online in the UK (504 consumers), US (1101), France (503) and Germany (516) to shed a light on attitudes towards multichannel, augmented (AR) […]
Buying an eyeshadow palette or a pair of sneakers you spot on Instagram is about to get easier if you’re in the US. Facebook-owned Instagram said on March 19 it’s testing a feature called checkout that will allow users to buy a product without leaving the photo-sharing app. That means Instagram users don’t have to […]
Mobile networks that impose annual inflation-based mid-contract price hikes on their pay monthly customers are estimated to have cost UK customers almost £1billion since 2013, according to research from specialist mobile analysts Tarifica, commissioned by Tesco Mobile. Further price hikes are set to come into effect from the end of March, with EE, Three and O2 all […]
PlayStation announced that PlayStation Vue is adding multi-view on Apple TV, allowing users to watch up to four live channels on one screen. This comes just in time for NCAA March Madness, so viewers can keep an eye on all the action or mix and match live games with live news or other programs. Multi-view […]
Popular dating app Tinder has provided some insight into how its algorithm decides which potential matches it surfaces to users – and it’s no longer an ‘Elo score’ based on desirability, though it doesn’t sound too dissimilar. The Match Group-owned platform doesn’t hide the fact that it used to rank people based on how desirable […]
NBC Universal (NBCU) is rolling its Audience Studio targeting solution into Sky’s addressable advertising suite AdSmart. The combined global offering, still named AdSmart, marks the first joint advertising initiative since Comcast bought Sky in September 2018. Comcast has owned NBCU since 2011. Linda Yaccarino, chairman of advertising and partnership at NBCU, said: “The world is getting smaller, […]
Manchester-based data capture specialist, WorkMobile, has experienced its strongest Q1 to date, thanks to a host of new client wins. The first two months of 2019 proved hugely successful for the business, with new client wins coming in from a range of sectors including building, design and technology. Scaffolding firm JFE Attridge Scaffolding, lifting solutions provider TAWI UK, […]
Actian, the hybrid data management, analytics and integration company, announced the Actian Avalanche cloud data warehouse, a fully managed service solution available on the AWS cloud platform. This innovative, third-generation, cloud data warehouse delivers breakthrough levels of speed, flexibility and economics designed to make it easier for companies to deploy and scale data analytics services […]