Amazon to build convenience stores for grocery business
Ecommerce

Amazon to build convenience stores for grocery business

10y Al Roberts

Amazon to build convenience stores for grocery bus...

Amazon is the king of online commerce, but in an effort to become a real player in the grocery business, the company is reportedly preparing to build ...

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Social discovery app Stack receives £1m investment
Content

Social discovery app Stack receives £1m investment

10y Graham Charlton

Social discovery app Stack receives £1m investment

Social content discovery app Stack has this week received a £1m investment from Blenheim Chalcot.  We’ve been asking Oliver Cooper, co-founder a...

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Facebook tests ads for Groups
Media

Facebook tests ads for Groups

10y Al Roberts

Facebook tests ads for Groups

Facebook's ad business could be expanding to Groups, a popular feature that "allow[s] people to come together around a common cause, issue or activity...

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Is Yahoo in the process of imploding?
Media

Is Yahoo in the process of imploding?

10y Al Roberts

Is Yahoo in the process of imploding?

In a deal that one observer called “the saddest $5 billion deal in tech history,” Yahoo agree to sell itself to telecommunications giant V...

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Study says Twitter customer service pays off
Media

Study says Twitter customer service pays off

10y Al Roberts

Study says Twitter customer service pays off

Twitter is increasingly focused on the customer service uses of its service, and many brands, like Southwest, are investing heavily in their Twitter c...

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Facebook targets eBay, Craigslist with Marketplace but falls way short
Ecommerce

Facebook targets eBay, Craigslist with Marketplace but falls way short

10y Al Roberts

Facebook targets eBay, Craigslist with Marketplace...

According to Facebook, more than 450 million of its members visit groups on its social network where individuals buy and sell goods, and now Facebook ...

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Amazon now forbids incentivized reviews, sort of
Ecommerce

Amazon now forbids incentivized reviews, sort of

10y Al Roberts

Amazon now forbids incentivized reviews, sort of

Yesterday, Amazon announced an update to its community guidelines that will put an end to incentivized reviews for products other than books. Accordin...

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Four 'occasional use' strategies to make your emails cool again
Email

Four 'occasional use' strategies to make your emails cool again

10y Ryan Phelan

Four 'occasional use' strategies to make your emai...

A lot of cool stuff is happening with email today. As an email marketer doing your job day in and day out, you probably wonder, “When do I get t...

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The rise of the consumer activist
Ecommerce

The rise of the consumer activist

10y Rebekah Mackay Miller

The rise of the consumer activist

Consumer trust in brands is at an all time low. Research from Young & Rubicam and Edelman has identified a major decline in trust over the last 20...

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Paying to play on social media
Media

Paying to play on social media

10y Bob Cargill

Paying to play on social media

Despite rumors to the contrary, it’ll cost you if you want to run a successful social media program. It’ll cost you both time and money, not to mentio...

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YouTube ads drive way more searches per impression than television ads
Display Advertising

YouTube ads drive way more searches per impression than television ads

10y Al Roberts

YouTube ads drive way more searches per impression...

Despite the fact that it faces growing competition from Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, Google-owned YouTube is still one of the most popular online...

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Amazon accused of hiding best deals from customers
Ecommerce

Amazon accused of hiding best deals from customers

10y Al Roberts

Amazon accused of hiding best deals from customers

Amazon prides itself on being the most “customer-centric” company in the world, but according to investigative journalism non-profit ProPu...

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Gmail gets responsive design support
Disruptive MarTech

Gmail gets responsive design support

10y Al Roberts

Gmail gets responsive design support

Life is about to get a whole lot better for email marketers and designers. That’s because Google recently announced that by the end of this mont...

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Is Twitter's NFL live streaming a success?
Media

Is Twitter's NFL live streaming a success?

10y Al Roberts

Is Twitter's NFL live streaming a success?

Having lost ground to rivals like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, Twitter has been investing heavily in live streaming, and one of its markets of pr...

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Is Hillary Clinton running one of the least effective presidential marketing campaigns ever?
Data insights

Is Hillary Clinton running one of the least effective presidential marketin...

10y Al Roberts

Is Hillary Clinton running one of the least effect...

Election 2016 is already like no presidential race before it, and one of the most striking aspects of this year’s race is the disparity between ...

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Snapchat's new glasses aim to bring first-person video to social media
Media

Snapchat's new glasses aim to bring first-person video to social media

10y Al Roberts

Snapchat's new glasses aim to bring first-person v...

Can Snapchat make tech-enabled glasses cool? It’s going to try. Last week, it was revealed that the company behind the ascendant social app part...

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Penguin 4.0 is finally here, Google confirms
Media

Penguin 4.0 is finally here, Google confirms

10y Christopher Ratcliff

Penguin 4.0 is finally here, Google confirms

After a couple of years waiting, and various algorithm fluctuations described as ‘normal turbulence’, Google has finally confirmed today t...

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Snapchat adds Facebook-like audience targeting
Media

Snapchat adds Facebook-like audience targeting

10y Al Roberts

Snapchat adds Facebook-like audience targeting

Facebook Custom and Lookalike Audiences are two of the most powerful tools in a social media marketer’s tool kit, and it’s no surprise tha...

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The Coalition for Better Ads launches to make digital ads great again
Disruptive MarTech

The Coalition for Better Ads launches to make digital ads great again

10y Al Roberts

The Coalition for Better Ads launches to make digi...

A new organization, The Coalition for Better Ads, has been launched to “leverage consumer insights and cross-industry expertise to develop and i...

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Twitter adds new customer service features
Community Management

Twitter adds new customer service features

10y Al Roberts

Twitter adds new customer service features

Social media has become an increasingly important channel for customer service over the years, and Twitter in particular is one of the social platform...

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What Is ID and Verification and why is it such an integral part of digital life?
Disruptive MarTech

What Is ID and Verification and why is it such an integral part of digital ...

10y David Poole

What Is ID and Verification and why is it such an ...

Identity and verification (ID&V) are two closely linked concepts that play an increasingly critical role in consumers’ day-to-day lives. Identific...

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How mobile is transforming the restaurant order and delivery business
Ecommerce

How mobile is transforming the restaurant order and delivery business

10y Andy Favell

How mobile is transforming the restaurant order an...

A tale of two approaches: 1. let customers choose between mobile web and app; 2. block the mobile web service, to force app downloads. Read More...

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Adblock Plus gets into the ad business with launch of RTB platform
Display Advertising

Adblock Plus gets into the ad business with launch of RTB platform

10y Al Roberts

Adblock Plus gets into the ad business with launch...

Adblock Plus, one of the most popular ad blocking add-ons for browsers, is getting into the ad business with the launch of a new marketplace that allo...

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Mid-roll video ads on the rise
Media

Mid-roll video ads on the rise

10y Al Roberts

Mid-roll video ads on the rise

While many have argued for years that digital video advertising should not and will not resemble television advertising, it looks like publishers, adv...

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Long-form and live video delivers higher ad completion rates
Media

Long-form and live video delivers higher ad completion rates

10y Al Roberts

Long-form and live video delivers higher ad comple...

Publishers are scrambling to produce more digital video content to meet advertiser demand for video ad inventory, and some are even turning to automat...

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Questions that journalists will ask you and how to avoid being caught out
Content

Questions that journalists will ask you and how to avoid being caught out

10y John Baker

Questions that journalists will ask you and how to...

Journalists are generally quite confident and they know what they need from a story, and often how to get it. That can be intimidating, and immediatel...

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Ubamarket launches supermarket shopping app
Disruptive MarTech

Ubamarket launches supermarket shopping app

10y Graham Charlton

Ubamarket launches supermarket shopping app

Ubamarket is a new app which aims to help customers to plan their supermarket shopping trips based on the location of items on their shopping list. U...

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