TripAdvisor is overhauling its website and mobile experience, introducing a more social and personal approach to travelling and eating out. The new TripAdvisor, which is currently in beta ahead of its official launch later in 2018, will expand this site’s community beyond travellers to include brands, social influencers, publishers, and friends – enabling users to […]
Instagram is having more and more impact on people’s decisions every day with the app leading a quarter of its UK users to make a purchase based on content they’ve seen. According to a YouGov survey of 500 Instagram users in the UK, commissioned by influencing marketing platform Takumi, 25 per cent of UK Instagram users […]
Almost half of businesses invest at least $500,000 in digital marketing every year, according to a new survey. The research, from The Manifest, a business news and how-to website, found that forty-one percent (41%) of businesses spend at least $500,000 on digital marketing annually, and 81% spend at least $50,000. The survey of 500 digital marketers […]
YouTube is embracing vertical video ads to let brands “provide a more seamless mobile experience” for viewers, it revealed at DMEXCO on September 12 where it also revealed plans to sell advertisers video ads based on users’ personalised home feeds. Advertisers can now snap up slots that fill up a users’ screen when they’re viewing […]
BBC News is launching a weekly news programme on Facebook Watch. Set to launch later in 2018, Cut Through The Noise will be the social media platform’s first funded non-US news programme. It is to focus on a different issue each week and will be set in BBC News’ Washington bureau or elsewhere in the […]
LinkedIn is bringing its Dynamic Ads product to its recently redesigned Campaign Manager, making it easier to target professionals on the social network with personalised ads. Dynamic Ads automatically customise ad creative using the publicly available information present on the profiles of LinkedIn members. And, in order to get deeper customisation, data mapping tools are […]
Debenhams launches two major Beauty initiatives this month to further strengthen its position as a leader in the premium beauty market. The initiatives drive a ‘digital first’ strategy for the department store and see both online and offline environments created that encourage customers to explore, discover and debate all things beauty. Beauty Club Community The […]
Following the success of On Demand – the instant messaging service used to search for the products requested by customers in the Milan flagship store and have them delivered anywhere they want – Rinascente presents WeChat On Demand. The aim is to extend the company’s personal concierge service, which was launched almost a year ago […]
Facebook expanded the options airlines have for reaching potential travellers with its flight ads, which were previously referred to as dynamic ads for travel for flight. Airlines already had the capability to use flight ads to target people who had visited their websites or applications to search for particular flights. The social network announced that airlines […]
Billion Dollar Boy, a global influencer marketing agency, is announcing the launch of StoryTracker, an industry first AI-powered Instagram Story tracking tool. This unique piece of software allows influencers and influencer marketing professionals to locate, categorise, save, download and analyse Instagram Stories before they disappear. With Instagram recently releasing figures showing that Stories now has […]