The majority of manufacturing businesses predict that at least 41% of their revenue will be derived from eCommerce websites they own or operate by 2025, be that selling online to business customers or with a direct to consumer offering. This is a staggering figure when thousands of UK manufacturers have yet to even put pricing […]
As advertising encroaches further into our social feeds and inevitably, our daily lives, it has become harder and harder to tell the difference between paid and organic content. Influencers mask sponsorships as lifestyle posts, commercials play between nearly every online video we watch, and product ads are served to us mere minutes after we’ve searched […]
Rob Sandbach, Managing Director of Indiespring, explains the essentials you need to consider when it comes to getting your app ready for launch
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 […]
Since the inception of social media, it has worked its way into every element of our day to day lives. Whether that be interacting with friends and family, booking holidays, shopping for clothes, allowing an insight into different lifestyles and it has definitely affected the world of sport: the way that we consume sport, the […]
China currently has a population of 1.37 billion people, who spent 91.8% of all time spent online on social media. This significant number is largely due to a social networking app in China, sometimes called ‘the app of everything’ – WeChat. Over the last few years, WeChat has completely transformed how people communicate, find information, […]
Two decades ago, in 1998, the concept of Bluetooth was born, and little did we realise that this oddly named wireless technology would rapidly become one of the greatest technology enablers of all time. When the first commercial products started to roll out at the turn of the millennium, I was working at Orange creating […]
It’s pretty clear that Amazon is on a monumental roll. The company’s growth is staggering, showing a 39% year over year increase in net sales, a 12x jump in earnings per share (EPS), and over 100 million Prime subscribers globally in Q2 2018. There simply isn’t another eCommerce company with the same market presence and influence […]
Before you begin to investigate tactics for implementing an effective cross-channel advertising strategy, it’s important to take a broad view of your goals, data, and business. In this article, we look at the necessary elements you should have in place before getting tactical with your cross-channel ad campaigns. Understand Your Goals What are your digital […]
There is an epidemic brewing in today’s connected world. Children’s open, unchecked use of the Internet is leading to a shift in young people’s social interactions, often to the detriment of their mental health. Much like global warming, the world may not see the scale of the problem until it is too late. Allowing open […]
It would be a stretch to call augmented reality (AR) an emerging technology. It’s been around for years and is used prolifically by a predominately teen audience, often on Snapchat. But it’s not mainstream yet – widespread AR adoption has yet to become a reality. 2019 could be the year this happens. The portents are […]