Facebook Messenger’s Personal Assistant M Available for UK Users

Facebook Messenger’s Personal Assistant M Available for UK Users

Facebook is upping the usefulness of its Messenger chat service by integrating its personal assistant M for users in the UK. The feature is expanding beyond the USA, touching down with UK users to aid them with its artificial intelligence-driven suggestions, dropping into conversations to suggest stickers, polls, birthday celebrations, group gatherings and location sharing. Furthermore, […]

Global Adtech and Martech M&A Levels for H1 2017 Indicate Renewed Confidence in The Sector

Global Adtech and Martech M&A Levels for H1 2017 Indicate Renewed Confidence in The Sector

Q1 was the busiest quarter for martech Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) deals on record. Private equity investment in adtech grows to 15% in Q2. Results International, specialist technology advisor on M&A and fundraising to the global marketing, technology and healthcare sectors, revealed figures for adtech and martech M&A for the first half of 2017. At 217 deals, the […]

eBay Preparing to Launch AI-Powered Visual Search Tools

eBay Preparing to Launch AI-Powered Visual Search Tools

eCommerce giant eBay is set to roll out new image search features to help mobile shoppers find exactly what they want on the online auction platform. Two new AI-powered features, Image Search and Find It On eBay, will be introduced later this year. Image Search – which will arrive on both Android and iOS – […]

Alexa is arriving to Amazon’s Android shopping app

Alexa is arriving to Amazon’s Android shopping app

Amazon is set to roll out Alexa to its main shopping app on Android, after introducing the artificial intelligence virtual assistant to the iOS version of the app earlier in 2017. The introduction of the feature to Android was first spotted by Ford senior software engineer Nick Schwab, and Amazon later confirmed to TechCrunch that it would indeed integrate Alexa […]

AI and Alexa are helping Vodafone emerge from ‘digital wilderness’ in Customer Experience Overhaul

AI and Alexa are helping Vodafone emerge from ‘digital wilderness’ in Customer Experience Overhaul

Vodafone has said it wants to be seen as an innovator as it continues its pivot towards a customer-centric strategy, with the telecom firm’s Chief Operating Officer and Director of Customer Service Neil Blagden, explaining why AI is helping fuel a shift in perception for the brand. Fresh from following its competitor Three in abolishing roaming […]

Verto Analytics: Growth of personal assistant apps ‘spotty and sluggish’

Verto Analytics: Growth of personal assistant apps ‘spotty and sluggish’

The use of personal assistant apps on smartphones is showing stagnation and even a decrease in certain cases, partly as people start to use standalone home devices such as Amazon’s Echo and Google Home instead of their mobiles to complete everyday internet tasks. Consumer-centric measurement firm Verto Analytics monitored a panel of US adults who […]

Blis’ Harry Dewhirst on what agencies and brands need to do to maximise their mobile strategy

Blis’ Harry Dewhirst on what agencies and brands need to do to maximise their mobile strategy

Location intelligence company, Blis has been on a roll over the last year, with some innovative projects and movements in the digital marketing space. During the Cannes Lions Festival, we sat down with their President, Harry Dewhirst, who told us about what Blis have been up to this past year and where they plan to go […]

Catch Digital releases a Game of Thrones bot to coincide with the new season of the show

Catch Digital releases a Game of Thrones bot to coincide with the new season of the show

In a world of direwolves, white walkers and dragons, there’s one thing missing: bots! Meet GoTBot, a friendly Facebook chatbot with answers to all of your Game of Thrones questions. Created by Catch, a digital creative agency in London, GoTBot is a Facebook Messenger chatbot created in solidarity with all the secondary characters you forgot […]

Tommy Hilfiger debuts world’s first video ad chatbot

Tommy Hilfiger debuts world’s first video ad chatbot

Ad tech firm Teads has launched the world’s first chatbot to operate within an outstream video ad, with Tommy Hilfiger the first brand to run its TMY.GRL chatbot using the technology. While Tommy Hilfiger has been able to run its ground breaking chatbot through Facebook Messenger in the past, Teads’ technology now allows the brand […]