Pinterest opens up Promoted Pins for UK advertisers, with John Lewis and Made.com among launch partners

Pinterest opens up Promoted Pins for UK advertisers, with John Lewis and Made.com among launch partners

Pinterest’s Promoted Pins ad format has landed in the UK, with brands like John Lewis, Made.com, B&Q and Tesco announced as early launch partners. The visual bookmarking tool, which allows users to curate and share images and ideas via an online scrapbook of ‘Pins’, made the announcement on April 6. Promoted Pins, which launched in […]

Bookatable Partnership with EasyPreOrders Sees Sales Boosted

Bookatable Partnership with EasyPreOrders Sees Sales Boosted

Digital restaurant pre booking service Bookatable has revealed a significant boost in sales to its restaurants that trialled the company’s exclusive partnership with EasyPreOrders ahead of a wider rollout of the system scheduled for later in 2016. The trial, which took place during November and December 2015, one of the busiest periods of the year for the […]

Huawei unveils its gambit for the west with #OO global teaser campaign

Huawei unveils its gambit for the west with #OO global teaser campaign

Huawei has initiated its debut fully integrated global marketing campaign in the UK. The Asian mobile brand is teasing what it is calling an “exciting new innovation” as part of the ‘#OO’ campaign, which will roll globally across out-of-home, print, digital and social channels. It launched in London to culminate in a major announcement on […]

Bathstore Produces App to Prevent Water Wastage in the Home

Bathstore Produces App to Prevent Water Wastage in the Home

Bathstore and Saatchi & Saatchi, London have launched their latest campaign with the ‘silent loo’ mobile app, which addresses the plight of water wastage in the UK. With billions of litres of water being wasted annually, the app was created in response to research collected into water consumption, which revealed that on average 75% of […]

Figures reveal mobile accounts for 51% of UK ecommerce sales

Figures reveal mobile accounts for 51% of UK ecommerce sales

For the first time ever smartphones and tablets accounted for over half of online sales in the United Kingdom. During the period November 2015 to January this year, 51 percent of UK online retail sales took place using smartphones and tablets. This is a significant increase on the 45 percent share recorded in the third […]

KitKat invents ‘mobile parking’ to launch Snap & Share bar

KitKat invents ‘mobile parking’ to launch Snap & Share bar

KitKat has promoted its new 11-finger Snap & Share bar with a special package sent to 120 innovative companies. The package developed by J.Walter Thompson London, included one of the bars and a mock parking lot for people to ‘park’ their mobile phones to enjoy a ‘phone-free’ break. The insight behind the work was that […]

EE ranked best UK mobile carrier – but its rivals are catching up

EE ranked best UK mobile carrier – but its rivals are catching up

Mobile network EE continues to be the best overall operator in the UK – but rival operators are closing the gap, according to a new RootMetrics study. The report, published today, examined how the four major operators – EE, Three, O2 and Vodafone – fared in reliability, network speeds and performance across data, calls and […]

SimilarWeb: 64.5 Per Cent of UK Retail Traffic from Mobile in 2015

SimilarWeb: 64.5 Per Cent of UK Retail Traffic from Mobile in 2015

64.5 per cent of visits to online retail sites in the UK in 2015, came from mobile phones, according to a report from SimilarWeb. Mobile maintained the majority share of visits across all of the top UK retail sites. Perhaps surprisingly, the sites with the largest mobile share weren’t those for pureplay online retailers Amazon (64 per cent) or eBay (59 per […]