MAGNA, the intelligence, investment and innovation unit within IPG Mediabrands, and IPG Media Lab, their creative technology arm, in partnership with Twitter announced the results of a scientific media trial examining the location of video ads within a social environment. The resulting report, The Art of the Takeover: Optimizing What Consumers See First, reveals best practices for in-feed advertising as […]
Smaato, the leading global real-time advertising platform for mobile publishers and app developers, released its Q1 2017 Global Trends in Mobile Advertising Report. Smaato analyzed data from 300 billion mobile ad impressions served on its exchange each month and found that mobile ad space is more valuable than ever before as global eCPMs grew almost 50 […]
The latest snapshot of the mobile banking industry to be compiled by Forrester has ranked Lloyds Bank at the top of the tree for functionality and usability in the UK as well as charting the rise of intelligent branding. Based on a survey of 3,870 UK online consumers researchers found that 35% of respondents had made use of a […]
New research from marketing technology company Wiraya, in partnership with YouGov, has revealed that 71% of consumers think voice will be used for one or more daily tasks in 10 years’ time. Companies are increasingly betting big on voice with new services such as Alexa and Siri increasingly being promoted by brands and adopted by […]
A study measuring the cross-device behaviour of nearly 5,000 UK adults reveals which sectors are most dominated by the different devices in terms of the time people spend visiting them. The Verto Analytics study shows that the health/fitness sector – such as Fitbit and the NHS – is the most dominated by smartphone usage. Smartphones […]
A10 Networks, a Secure Application Services company, has revealed in new research that Britons are so addicted to and dependent upon their smartphones and applications that a quarter believe mobile apps are equally as important as a basic human resource such as eating, breathing and drinking. The Application Intelligence Report (AIR) is a global research […]
The increasing popularity of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram mean communications and social media is accounting for a greater share of the time people spend on apps than ever, according to measurement firm Verto Analytics. Measuring the cross-device behaviour of nearly 5,000 UK adults revealed the monthly time spent on communications and social media apps grew by 11.2 […]
Contactless retail payments made via cards, mobile and wearables are set to reach $1.3 trillion (£1.01 trillion) in value globally by 2019 – more than double the estimated $590bn estimated for this year. According to research from Hampshire-based analyst Juniper Research, cards will continue to contribute the most to total contactless transactions – accounting for […]
Criteo has released its UK FMCG Deep Dive – Taking Stock of the Future of Grocery report, exploring the latest e-Retail themes and trends in the UK FMCG marketplace, including the impact of mobile on grocery shopping, and identifies the most searched terms used by shoppers and which products shoppers inevitably buy. A few of […]
Chatbots are set to save the customer service industry over $8bn (£6.2bn) by 2022, up from just $20m this year, with the healthcare and banking sectors benefitting the most. According to a study from Hampshire-based analyst Juniper Research, the banking sector is most suited to an immediate rollout of chatbots compared to other industries because […]