Voice-enabled technology, from smart speakers to virtual assistants, is opening an entirely new interface through which brands and consumers will engage and communicate in 2018, according to WARC, the global marketing intelligence service, following a survey with more than 600 marketing and advertising professionals around the world for its Toolkit 2018 report. Voice is swiftly […]
Consumers could be using up to 100GB of data on their phones every month by 2025, according to mobile network provider GiffGaff. The company said the introduction of 5G will lead to an “explosive” growth in data consumption. It tipped video streaming to be see the largest growth. In 2017, users consumed just 0.83GB worth […]
UK ad viewability levels reached 56 per cent in the final quarter of 2017, the highest level since the second quarter of 2014. According to ad verification company Meetrics, the proportion of banner ads that met minimum viewability guidelines rose from 52 per cent to the 56 per cent achieved in Q4 2017, meaning levels […]
Samsung Electronics has lost its crown as the top smartphone seller in India for the first time in six years, as it was outsold by China’s Xiaomi in the final quarter of 2017, data from two tech research firms shows. Xiaomi’s aggressively priced suite of high-spec handsets and market expansion strategy enabled it to take […]
Social ad spending during the festive period was up by 54% according to data gathered by data science and marketing technology firm 4C. The report took a sample of the brands using the 4C social platform to compile its ‘The State of Media‘ report. During the fourth quarter of 2017, a sample of $400m in […]
Chinese Internet giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT) will account for the lion share of programmatic expenditures in China as advertisers are predicted to invest $22.81 billion on programmatic digital display ads this year in the Asian country, with mobile accounting for 83.7% of that total. This is according to eMarketer’s latest forecast of programmatic […]
Only 5% of media and advertising professionals believe commercial research studies on digital advertising are of a good enough quality. The influence of the sales agenda of the company owning the research is seen as the biggest obstacle to producing good quality research – cited by 57% of the 220 industry professionals interviewed online by […]
India downloaded more apps than the US in 2017, a new report by app analytics provider App Annie has revealed. Riding on increased smartphone penetration and dirt-cheap 4G data access, India accounted for nearly 58 billion of the world’s 175 billion app downloads in 2017. Only China, the world’s largest internet market, is ahead with […]
New research by Website Builder Expert, the leading online resource for creating and launching your website, has revealed the countries with the most to lose if someone actually broke the internet. The study compares the most recent data on 22 countries with a substantial e-commerce presence, with eMarketer statistics to determine how much money each […]
The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has announced its predictions for the UK technology sector in 2018. The news comes following the launch of the seventeenth edition of TMT Predictions 2018. Machine Learning: Bargaining Chips A surge in deployment of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) and ASICs […]