Adblock Plus has released an update to their globally-popular ad blocker. The new Adblock Plus 3.7 improves CPU performance and enhances battery life, amongst other things. Most important, however, are the improvements in the filter list menu. In addition to pre-installed lists for blocking intrusive ads, Adblock Plus has a large selection of filter lists […]
Social media marketing platform Adfenix announced its brand-new partnership with property portal, Boneo, to help estate agents fight back against the online dominance of property portals. The strategic partnership aims to set a new precedent in the marketplace, using a tech-led, collaborative approach to combat the hegemony of online property portals which has resulted in […]
Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency, has promoted Ben Gott to lead its rapidly expanding analytics practice across EMEA. Merkle’s mission is to enable orchestrated and valuable customer interactions across all marketing and service touchpoints. This can only be achieved through mastery of data, analytics and the customer identity. This in turn requires […]
Reflect Digital has launched an innovative new online tool to help measure how engaging content is on a website, using psychology models. Rate My Content analyses content across four core areas to assess audience engagement levels. It looks at how the content interests and involves readers, examines if it has a good balance of language […]
CHE Proximity has announced the launch of a new practice, CHEP Mixed Reality, which will be spearheaded by Charlotte Bruton. The new offering will leverage CHEP’s existing advanced engineering team currently organised across commerce cloud, marketing cloud, ad cloud and data cloud teams. Bruton is a Frost Collective alumnus and recent McCann National Digital and […]
Blend Media, which provides premium 360/VR content for brands including Disney and McCann, has launched Blend Market – a platform which helps clients find and hire skilled professional creators of immersive content and experiences across the VR/AR/MR spectrum. With the rapid advancement of new technologies and increasingly powerful mobile devices, major platforms including Facebook, Google […]
Firefly, the company leveraging taxi and rideshare vehicles to build a smart city media network, announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind integration with global weather forecasting leader AccuWeather, bringing weather-based dynamic content triggers to Firefly’s smart media platform. Alongside the new partnership, the company is also expanding operations to the streets of Chicago, Illinois and […]
Chinese tech giant Tencent has partnered with UK based AI company, Mirraid for to place ads in old movies, such as coffee cups and bus posters. Tencent, which owns social media platform WeChat, will test this out on its own video platform. However, if this experiment is successful, more video platforms might be eager to […]
Mobile gamers in the UK are spending, on average, more than £40 a year on in-app purchases, with males between 25 and 34 spending around three times as much as the average across all age groups. Deloitte analysed the smartphone habits of 4,150 people aged between 16 and 75 in the UK and found that mobile […]
The daily use of voice assistants in the UK has risen significantly in the past 12 months according to new research. The survey of 1000 smart speaker owners in the UK was carried out by digital experience agency Code Computerlove and Mediacom North to benchmark changes in the use of voice assistants in the past 12 months. Seven out of […]