Leading location technology company, Blis, recently unveiled insights from Singapore’s Formula One weekend. Coming on the 10th anniversary of F1’s arrival Singapore, the data points to the enormous commercial benefit the race brings to the local economy, showing a 173% jump in mobile activity at key local restaurants and an 82% lift at local shopping […]
A new report from Juniper Research has found that advertisers will lose an estimated $19 billion to fraudulent activities next year, equivalent to $51 million per day. This figure, representing advertising on online and mobile devices, will continue to rise, reaching $44 billion by 2022. Ad Platforms Need to Break Out of Walled Gardens Juniper’s new research, Future […]
Twice as many adults now use the internet on a smartphone than do on a desktop computer, as smartphones have become the most popular device for going online at every hour of the day. Verto Analytics, a research company that tracks which devices nearly 5,000 UK adults use to go online, showed that smartphones account […]
More than half (53%) of 16-75-year-olds in the UK use their smartphones while walking – the equivalent of around 22 million people – according to the latest research from Deloitte. For younger consumers aged 16-24, the proportion rises to 74%. Worryingly, more than 4.5 million people (11% of respondents) also admit to using their smartphones while […]
Mindshare UK, part of WPP, unveiled its research report, The Future of Retail CX (Customer Experience). The Mindshare Futures report identifies five key trends for the retail industry, focusing on mobile, voice, physical stores, branding and data. A key conclusion is that the store offering will become a real point of differentiation from competitors in […]
Google and Facebook will continue to dominate the digital advertising landscape in the UK for at least the next several years, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast of UK digital ad spending. The two tech companies combined will reap more than half (54%) of all UK digital ad revenues this year, totaling £6.30 billion ($8.50 billion). […]
New research from Future Thinking has found that the consumer response to the iPhone launch remains underwhelming amid a growing backlash against smartphone evolution. 20% of British consumers said: “I don’t want a smartphone – I just want a phone that makes calls.” Only 5% said they planned to upgrade to an iPhone soon after […]
The coming years will be chilly for just about every advertising medium except for your mobile phone, according to advertising agency Zenith. While internet advertising will overtake old-school television to become the biggest global advertising medium in 2017, marketing on desktop computers is expected to decline in coming years: As more advertising shifts online, benefitting companies like […]
A recent research has shown just how pervasive dating apps like Tinder, Okcupid, Bumble, Happn and Grindr have become: more than a third (37 percent) of UK smartphone owners have either found love online or know someone who has, while one in twelve (8 percent) now use dating apps. Around a quarter of those UK […]
It’s no stretch to say that digital advertising can be annoying, and mobile ads even more so as they’re harder to avoid. For UK consumers, some mobile ad formats are especially irksome, according to a recent study commissioned by ad tech firm InSkin Media. Polling of UK internet users in Q1 2017 by mobile market […]