Marketers waste an hour a day searching for digital assets
Disruptive MarTech

Marketers waste an hour a day searching for digital assets

12y Huw Jenkins

Marketers waste an hour a day searching for digita...

The demands on a marketer’s time are ever-expanding and research by integrated brand management technology company, Brandworkz has revealed that marke...

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Is there a market for a B2B version of Instagram?
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Is there a market for a B2B version of Instagram?

12y Leighann Morris

Is there a market for a B2B version of Instagram?

It seems there is. Introducing: FoKo, a B2B photo sharing app that has gained Whole Foods as a new client. Read More...

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A marketer’s guide to Twitter’s new tailored tweets
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A marketer’s guide to Twitter’s new tailored tweets

12y Huw Jenkins

A marketer’s guide to Twitter’s new tailored tweet...

Twitter has launched new ad targeting, so marketers need to get ready to groom the feathers of branded tweets and make social marketing fly – with hel...

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Digital product placement: Mercedes Benz & Mario Kart 8
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Digital product placement: Mercedes Benz & Mario Kart 8

12y Leighann Morris

Digital product placement: Mercedes Benz & Mar...

Bizarre franchise crossover of the week: a forthcoming DLC (downloadable content) pack for Mario Kart 8 will allow gamers to hop behind the wheel of a...

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UK first live music stream TV ad with Sam Smith
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UK first live music stream TV ad with Sam Smith

12y Huw Jenkins

UK first live music stream TV ad with Sam Smith

‘Latch’ singer Sam Smith will mark an historic UK first as he performs his new single throughout an entire ad break, sandwiched neatly in between Alan...

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How drunk are you? Check your Alcohoot app
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How drunk are you? Check your Alcohoot app

12y Leighann Morris

How drunk are you? Check your Alcohoot app

Alcohol marketers partner with smartphone breathalyser for digital drinking with a digital hangover. Read More...

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L'Oreal targets ads based on hair colour in online photos
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L'Oreal targets ads based on hair colour in online photos

12y Leighann Morris

L'Oreal targets ads based on hair colour in online...

In an incredibly intelligent and innovative move in digital marketing, L'Oreal Ombre hair colour products -- born last year from a project that mined ...

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Salesforce adds ‘Pinterest Insights’ for marketers
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Salesforce adds ‘Pinterest Insights’ for marketers

12y Leighann Morris

Salesforce adds ‘Pinterest Insights’ for marketers

The ExactTarget Marketing Cloud from salesforce.com has added Pinterest Business Insights, providing marketers with data to better understand their br...

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Should you care about Twitch? Yeah, probably
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Should you care about Twitch? Yeah, probably

12y Leighann Morris

Should you care about Twitch? Yeah, probably

What would YouTube and Google want with a website known for streaming video games? It is a question that many are asking after we learnt that the tech...

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Foot prints: Adidas app to print favourite Instagram pic on trainers
Acquisition

Foot prints: Adidas app to print favourite Instagram pic on trainers

12y Huw Jenkins

Foot prints: Adidas app to print favourite Instagr...

Set for release in August, the sports brand ‘Adidas Photo Print’ app will be used to print images from Instagram onto the ZX Flux trainer - tapping in...

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13 years of Apple in 60 seconds
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13 years of Apple in 60 seconds

12y Leighann Morris

13 years of Apple in 60 seconds

Next Monday, May 19th, will mark the 13th anniversary of the first Apple Store. To show you how Apple have taken over the world, Retale have made this...

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Social tool HootSuite reigns supreme with top firms
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Social tool HootSuite reigns supreme with top firms

12y Huw Jenkins

Social tool HootSuite reigns supreme with top firm...

With as many engagement tools as pictures of Kim Kardashian’s posterior, LeadSift investigated Fortune 100 firms to determine which tool was the most ...

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Instagram ads filtering out promising early results
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Instagram ads filtering out promising early results

12y Leighann Morris

Instagram ads filtering out promising early result...

Instagram ads, just six months old and limited to a select group of 15 brands, are already showing promising results, according to exclusive data. Rea...

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AOL buys online marketer tool Convertro for nearly $100m
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AOL buys online marketer tool Convertro for nearly $100m

12y Leighann Morris

AOL buys online marketer tool Convertro for nearly...

AOL is continuing its quest to become one of the internet's leading advertising platforms by reaching a deal to buy Convertro, a digital advertising f...

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Is an account annoying you on Twitter? Mute it
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Is an account annoying you on Twitter? Mute it

12y Leighann Morris

Is an account annoying you on Twitter? Mute it

Twitter is trialling a feature in its mobile apps that allows users to mute accounts that are becoming irritating. Read More...

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New: Facebook's bespoke in-app advertising network
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New: Facebook's bespoke in-app advertising network

12y Leighann Morris

New: Facebook's bespoke in-app advertising network

Facebook has unveiled a mobile advertising network letting advertisers target users on apps based on the information they have shared with the social ...

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4G users ‘more likely to shop from their smartphone’
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4G users ‘more likely to shop from their smartphone’

12y Leighann Morris

4G users ‘more likely to shop from their smartphon...

Over two thirds (68%) of 4G users feel that faster access to the internet encourages them to make more purchases from their smartphone, according to r...

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Mobile location-based advertising worth £8.8bn by 2018
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Mobile location-based advertising worth £8.8bn by 2018

12y Huw Jenkins

Mobile location-based advertising worth £8.8bn by ...

A report from analyst firm Berg Insight suggests that the market will grow by 54%, corresponding to 38.6% of the entire mobile advertising market. Rea...

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Has Google+ failed?
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Has Google+ failed?

12y Leighann Morris

Has Google+ failed?

According to a report, Google+ will no longer be considered a product but a platform, essentially ending its competition with social networks like Fac...

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Double trouble: Facebook expands tool for marketers to reach 'lookalike' customers
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Double trouble: Facebook expands tool for marketers to reach 'lookalike' cu...

12y Huw Jenkins

Double trouble: Facebook expands tool for marketer...

Facebook has extended a tool, giving marketers access to a ‘lookalike audience feature’ - meaning you can reach users similar to those already shoppi...

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45% of UK smartphone users willing to be targeted via iBeacon
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45% of UK smartphone users willing to be targeted via iBeacon

12y Huw Jenkins

45% of UK smartphone users willing to be targeted ...

Research, from eDigitalResearch, also found that 33% of respondents believed that targeted messages sent to their phones during a shopping spree would...

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Is another digital revolution dawning?
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Is another digital revolution dawning?

12y Huw Jenkins

Is another digital revolution dawning?

The shopping landscape is about to be revolutionised thanks to smartphones, vouchers and opposable thumbs, predicts ex-Tesco boss. Read More...

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Half of UK businesses admit lazy mobile email strategy
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Half of UK businesses admit lazy mobile email strategy

12y Huw Jenkins

Half of UK businesses admit lazy mobile email stra...

New research suggests that more than half of UK businesses deem their email strategy ‘basic’ or ‘non-existent’ despite the expanding consumer-driven d...

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Email marketing still alive and clicking
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Email marketing still alive and clicking

12y Huw Jenkins

Email marketing still alive and clicking

With the unstoppable rise of social media and other digital channels of communication it’s long been anticipated that good old-fashioned email marketi...

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Facebook acquires Oculus VR in £1.2bn deal signalling virtual advertising age
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Facebook acquires Oculus VR in £1.2bn deal signalling virtual advertising a...

12y Huw Jenkins

Facebook acquires Oculus VR in £1.2bn deal signall...

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerburg, bought the technology manufacturer responsible for the Oculus Rift reality headset to move the network into the “mo...

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Pepsi’s 'Unbelievable London' bus shelter
Acquisition

Pepsi’s 'Unbelievable London' bus shelter

12y Hannah Staff

Pepsi’s 'Unbelievable London' bus shelter

From wild tigers and giant tentacles to alien space invasions and laser-zapping robots, the team at Pepsi Max use digital technology to scare Londoner...

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Google Glass haters get told with myth-busting blog post
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Google Glass haters get told with myth-busting blog post

12y Huw Jenkins

Google Glass haters get told with myth-busting blo...

Google is attempting to quash haters by publishing a post on the official Google Glass Google+ page that aims to demolish “The Top 10 Google Glass Myt...

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