New research has found that the vast majority of internet users lack any confidence in what they see and read online. Only 8% of them globally think that three-quarters or more of the information they get from social media is true – dropping to 4% when it comes to information from supposedly trusted influencers like […]
Data privacy battles are heating up now that a group of US senators have asked regulators to investigate how telecom firms sell people’s location data. Earlier this month, Vice’s Motherboard reported that bounty hunters could pinpoint a person’s cellphone after obtaining location data from data resellers. The report led 15 US senators to call for an investigation into […]
Against a backdrop of the worst period since the financial crisis for new car sales, new research has revealed the UK’s automotive companies could also be limited in their ability to understand and engage their customers due to data challenges. The new findings, from marketing data and services experts Acxiom, discovered that over a third of automotive […]
A new study by data specialists Wilmington Millennium reveals that Millennials and Generation Z are the most empowered age groups when it comes to protecting their personal information. Sixteen to thirty-four year olds are the most likely to act on the powers afforded to them by GDPR. Almost half (48 per cent) of Generation Y […]
Marketers have moved to data segmentation and multi-channel marketing tactics, following the introduction of the GDPR, according to new research from TransUnion (formerly Callcredit). Two-thirds of marketers (66%) said they are now less able to personalise marketing to individuals, and have switched to segmentation, with eight out of ten marketers (78%) agreeing that being able […]
65% of all money spent on advertising in digital media in 2019 will be traded programmatically, according to Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecasts, published on November 19. Advertisers will spend US$84bn programmatically next year, up from US$70bn this year, which represents 62% of digital media expenditure. Zenith predict that in 2020 advertisers will spend US$98bn on […]
Research released by Oath, in association with IAB Europe, has revealed that European publishers believe revenue generated by video, native and mobile formats will grow by more than a quarter (26%) over the next 12 months. Over 60% said these formats are paramount to the success of their business. The study entitled ‘Understanding Programmatic Challenges […]
Teads, the Global Media Platform, is creating a weekly report about the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) being implemented by European publishers. Teads’ barometer can be considered as representative of the market, as 2/3 of comScore’s top 300 global editorial publishers are on Teads’ advertising platform. Key findings include: 63% of European publishers’ […]
UK brands are adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) as they race to make sense of customer data and deliver more relevant, personalised experiences, while staying on the right side of GDPR. Adobe research, to be published in a report entitled Context is Everything, reveals an overwhelming majority (91%) of UK businesses view personalisation as a priority, […]
Natterbox, a leading provider of global voice cloud services, has announced that it has fully integrated a highly secure, automated credit card payment service which meets the strict PCI DSS standards into its telephony platform. The new service, developed in partnership with the market leader in secure voice payment services for business, PCI Pal, offers […]