PayPal, Google team up to let users pay through Gmail and YouTube

PayPal, Google team up to let users pay through Gmail and YouTube

Over the past few months, the combination of Google and PayPal have become a go-to service whenever you’re paying for something. Buying something in a store? You can use PayPal via Google Pay. Owe your friends money? You can use Venmo (which is owned by PayPal). Paying for Google services? That’s PayPal territory, too. As […]

Ola Cabs owner invests heavily in Foodpanda India to boost logistics and delivery

Ola Cabs owner invests heavily in Foodpanda India to boost logistics and delivery

Foodpanda India will spend Rs 400 crore ($60 million) to hire 25,000 riders and improve its online food delivery network as it looks to take on Naspers-owned Swiggy and Alibaba-backed Zomato. The fresh investment would focus on scaling up technology to provide a robust backend and provide assistance through their own delivery network, Ola Cabs, […]

eBay drops PayPal as its primary payment processor

eBay drops PayPal as its primary payment processor

In a surprise announcement, eBay has revealed that it will be ditching PayPal as its primary payment processor. The company says it will be intermediating payments on the Marketplace platform, a move that will improve the experience for both sellers and buyers. As part of this, eBay has partnered with payment processor Adyen, though the […]

New Ogury study shows UK fintech beginning to take market share

New Ogury study shows UK fintech beginning to take market share

Ogury, the mobile data platform, released its Mobile Banking Study 2017 – an analysis of over 1,265,000 mobile users active during July – September 2017 in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. The study reveals that UK fintechs are increasing their market share amongst mobile banking users, with 8.8% having downloaded at least […]

Growth in mobile ad spend leading to decline in ad viewability levels

Growth in mobile ad spend leading to decline in ad viewability levels

The increase in mobile advertising spend is contributing to a decline in ad viewability levels, according to the latest quarterly benchmark report from ad verification company Meetrics. While mobile advertising has recently helped the UK’s digital ad spend surpass the £10bn mark for the first time, other forms of digital advertising are now showing signs […]

Forrester: Digital marketing spend to hit $118bn by 2021, but budgets will shift to experiences

Forrester: Digital marketing spend to hit $118bn by 2021, but budgets will shift to experiences

Technology and market research company Forrester forecasts digital media spending will increase to $118bn by 2021, but it projects this spending will slow overall as marketers emphasize brand experiences over volume-based advertising strategies and budgets are reallocated to reflect this trend. That’s according to Forrester’s latest US Digital Marketing Forecast. “We are seeing a shift […]

Carat: Major sporting events and digital to fuel global ad spend

Carat: Major sporting events and digital to fuel global ad spend

Worldwide advertising expenditure for 2016 is set surpass expectations off the back of the ongoing growth in digital and the abundance of major events such as Euro 2016, the Rio Olympics and the upcoming presidential elections, according to the latest forecasts from Carat. The global media network has published its updated forecasts based on data […]