69% of digital media will be programmatic in 2020 – Zenith’ Programmatic Marketing Forecasts

Programmatic adspend to exceed US$100bn for the first time in 2019

69% of digital media will be programmatic in 2020 – Zenith’ Programmatic Marketing Forecasts

  While programmatic continues to rise, its adspend growth is slowing due to industry challenges of privacy and supply-chain that must be addressed to resume faster growth   Brands need to develop new targeting techniques using first-party data and customer data platforms in response to the ongoing death of the cookieUK-specific:   We forecast continued […]

When is the right time to launch an app for your business?

Rob Sandbach, Managing Director of Indiespring, explains the essentials you need to consider when it comes to getting your app ready for launch

When is the right time to launch an app for your business?

The most successful apps that you will have heard of will have identify a public need: WhatsApp for messaging; Google Maps for navigation; Uber for on-demand mobility. These apps were built to resolve specific issues and that will have taken a lot of investment – often millions – with plenty of additional budget for a […]

Prostate Cancer UK Sees Spike In Online Giving After Transforming Digital Donation Journey

Prostate Cancer UK Sees Spike In Online Giving After Transforming Digital Donation Journey

Prostate Cancer UK is enjoying an increase in donations following a recent overhaul of its online donor journey and payment options. The leading men’s health charity made changes to its online giving journeys using the goDonate platform from strategic creative agency WPNC. Honed following years of user testing and excellent campaign results – with learnings fed back into the platform’s […]

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service appoints Brandwidth to create AR-based solution

- Appointment follows a five-way competitive pitch - AR visualiser will give fire commanders ability to ‘see through walls’ in order to protect firefighters in high-risk scenarios

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service appoints Brandwidth to create AR-based solution

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service has announced the appointment of Brandwidth, the digital innovation agency which specialises in solving complex technical challenges, to a major new innovation brief. The £500k project is funded by Innovate UK and SRBI, in conjunction with GovTech Catalyst and the Government Digital Service.  The appointment follows an RFI process […]

Digital Innovation Improves NHS Foundation Trust’s Patient Cancer Care

Digital Innovation Improves NHS Foundation Trust’s Patient Cancer Care

A service design approach has offered Europe’s largest cancer centre an innovative solution to improve the efficiency of the hundreds of cancer trials it carries out each year. The North West based NHS Foundation Trust approached Manchester digital experience agency Code Computerlove, part of the MediaCom North Group, to explore how digital technology can be applied […]

Samsung and IBM team up on 5G and AI-powered safety platform

Samsung and IBM team up on 5G and AI-powered safety platform

Samsung Electronics and IBM announced at the Samsung Developer Conference, a new joint platform leveraging IBM Cloud and AI capabilities, and Samsung’s mobile offerings. The collaboration between the two companies brings together IBM’s capabilities with the Samsung Galaxy ecosystem for today’s enterprise customers. “The mobile industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation and opening up new […]

Successful brands spend 82% of their budgets on TV and digital channels combined, says WARC

Successful brands spend 82% of their budgets on TV and digital channels combined, says WARC

WARC, the international marketing intelligence service, has released the latest Media Allocation Benchmark report, identifying where successful advertisers invest their budget. Using its database of effective advertising campaigns, WARC has analysed over 1,100 case studies between 2009 and 2018 that contain budget and media allocation information for TV, digital (including online and mobile), OOH/experiential, print, […]

Yext launches AI-Search product for brand websites

Yext launches AI-Search product for brand websites

Yext has launched an AI-based search product for business websites – ‘Yext Answers’ to help brands answer customer questions with brand verified answers. It enables brands to deliver a contextual search experience on their own website that rivals the experiences of the most sophisticated search engines. Powering Answers is the Yext Knowledge Graph, which harnesses […]

52 per cent of Gen Zers would book a holiday on Instagram, according to Fresh Relevance report

52 per cent of Gen Zers would book a holiday on Instagram, according to Fresh Relevance report

Research from real-time personalisation platform Fresh Relevance has revealed the variety of channels and sources holidaymakers use to research and book their holidays, and their willingness to use social channels to do so. The “Digital Holidaymaker Trend Report,” which surveyed 2,000 UK holidaymakers in collaboration with Censuswide, indicates that 42 per cent are using review websites, such […]