Apple Pay Coming to UK Retail Stores from July
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Apple Pay Coming to UK Retail Stores from July

11y Dave Neal

Apple Pay Coming to UK Retail Stores from July

Apple Pay has the support and backing of many popular stores in the U.K. as well as eight banks. Read More...

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Apple to Upgrade Siri and Update Maps
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Apple to Upgrade Siri and Update Maps

11y Emily Alford

Apple to Upgrade Siri and Update Maps

At Apple's keynote during the Worldwide Developers' Conference, the company introduced plans to upgrade Siri's voice search capabilities and make Maps...

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4 Opportunities to Double Down on Data
Advanced Email Marketing

4 Opportunities to Double Down on Data

11y Catherine Magoffin

4 Opportunities to Double Down on Data

Uber sending emails about users' personal experiences is just one example of a brand leveraging data to deliver great email marketing campaigns. Read ...

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Apple Pay arrives in UK
Disruptive MarTech

Apple Pay arrives in UK

11y Huw Jenkins

Apple Pay arrives in UK

Starting next month, Apple Pay will be available to customers in the UK across 250,000 locations, confirmed the tech leader at their annual WWDC confe...

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Is It Smart Digital Marketing - Or Is It Creepy?
Email

Is It Smart Digital Marketing - Or Is It Creepy?

11y Jeanne Jennings

Is It Smart Digital Marketing - Or Is It Creepy?

Cart abandonment emails have proven profitable for retailers, though sending emails referencing items that were simply viewed can be off-putting and c...

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Chrome Auto Pause on Adobe Flash Means Video Should Shift to Social
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Chrome Auto Pause on Adobe Flash Means Video Should Shift to Social

11y Dave Neal

Chrome Auto Pause on Adobe Flash Means Video Shoul...

Google Chrome has introduced a feature that automatically pauses Adobe Flash videos deemed extraneous to the browsing experience, which will silence m...

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Norwegian Airline Creates Emoji URL
Marketing

Norwegian Airline Creates Emoji URL

11y Mike O'Brien

Norwegian Airline Creates Emoji URL

Norwegian Airlines demonstrates the rise in visual communication, promoting a new flight to Las Vegas with a web address that consists of emojis for a...

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Did You Blog, Read or Share This Column?
Marketing

Did You Blog, Read or Share This Column?

11y Jeanniey Mullen

Did You Blog, Read or Share This Column?

Limiting options and using emotion, rather than evaluation, can help create marketing magic: what happens when marketing crosses with psychology. Read...

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What technology makes a consumer happy?
Disruptive MarTech

What technology makes a consumer happy?

11y Huw Jenkins

What technology makes a consumer happy?

A third of consumers would like retailers to have free Wi-Fi as standard, with self-service checkouts also trending among tech-led consumer expectatio...

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Beyond YouTube: Alternate Video Venues
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Beyond YouTube: Alternate Video Venues

11y Kevin Lee

Beyond YouTube: Alternate Video Venues

While YouTube is the dominant platform when it comes to video SEO, the video offerings on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Snapchat ...

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The Next Stop for Everywhere Marketing: Mobile Apps
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The Next Stop for Everywhere Marketing: Mobile Apps

11y Pelin Thorogood

The Next Stop for Everywhere Marketing: Mobile App...

Marketers would do well to double down on native apps, investing in agile optimization practices to deliver highly customized and relevant mobile expe...

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9 Ways the Retail Relationship is Changing
Asia

9 Ways the Retail Relationship is Changing

11y Stephen Hay

9 Ways the Retail Relationship is Changing

New opportunities abound for retail marketing as technology helps glean greater data collection and insight. Read More...

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Internet of Things Spending to Reach 1.7 Trillion by 2020
Ad Industry Metrics

Internet of Things Spending to Reach 1.7 Trillion by 2020

11y Yuyu Chen

Internet of Things Spending to Reach 1.7 Trillion ...

The Internet of Things market is estimated to reach 1.7 trillion globally by 2020, according to a new study by International Data Corporation. Read Mo...

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One minute with: Buzz Wiggins co-founder & CTO @ Adcade
Insights

One minute with: Buzz Wiggins co-founder & CTO @ Adcade

11y Huw Jenkins

One minute with: Buzz Wiggins co-founder & CTO...

This week’s unmasked marketer is Buzz Wiggins, co-founder and CTO at Adcade. Wiggins, apart from having an awesome name, looks great in slo-mo, looks...

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The Future Is Personalized
Data insights

The Future Is Personalized

11y Tessa Wegert

The Future Is Personalized

Because consumers have come to expect personalized marketing, in the future, it will be key for brands to incorporate personalization in programmatic,...

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Responding to an Online Hack
Asia

Responding to an Online Hack

11y Gordon Choi

Responding to an Online Hack

China's Ctrip is a good example of the importance of keeping communication channels open and engaging with the customer when responding to a digital b...

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YouTube’s First Decade: The Top Ads and the Trends That Define Them
Media

YouTube’s First Decade: The Top Ads and the Trends That Define Them

11y Greg Jarboe

YouTube’s First Decade: The Top Ads and the Trends...

YouTube's first ten years have produced some great ads, and in conjunction with The Webby Awards, viewers recently got to chose their favorites. Read ...

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Yahoo Allows Advertisers to Independently Validate Viewability and Fraud
Display Advertising

Yahoo Allows Advertisers to Independently Validate Viewability and Fraud

11y Yuyu Chen

Yahoo Allows Advertisers to Independently Validate...

Yahoo is the first major digital publisher that lets brands fact-check viewability and ad fraud by themselves. Read More...

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Remembering Mobile Dads - and Not Just on Father’s Day
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Remembering Mobile Dads - and Not Just on Father’s Day

11y Joe Laszlo

Remembering Mobile Dads - and Not Just on Father’s...

Marketing messages for moms should target both parents, as today's dads, who make up 22 percent of the U.S. mobile audience, are more hands-on than th...

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Pinterest to Add Buy Button for Revenue Generation
Social

Pinterest to Add Buy Button for Revenue Generation

11y Yuyu Chen

Pinterest to Add Buy Button for Revenue Generation

Pinterest has unveiled transactional pins. Will its “Buy Button" work better than Twitter’s and Facebook’s version? Read More...

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Brands Fight Ad Blindness With Interactive Experiences
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Brands Fight Ad Blindness With Interactive Experiences

11y Mike O'Brien

Brands Fight Ad Blindness With Interactive Experie...

Brands like Target, Shazam, and The Home Depot are increasingly making interactive mobile ads, while also taking decreasing user attention spans into ...

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What should brands give in return for the data exchange?
Headline News

What should brands give in return for the data exchange?

11y Huw Jenkins

What should brands give in return for the data exc...

Brands are at risk of losing the trust of consumers over the exchange of personal data, according to research from Microsoft. So, what can be done to ...

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Reaching the Product Page Abandoner
B2C Email Marketing

Reaching the Product Page Abandoner

11y Jim Davidson

Reaching the Product Page Abandoner

Product page abandonment emails remind consumers what they were looking at earlier. They're similar to cart abandonment emails, but not nearly as popu...

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Uber Partners With Foursquare to Combine Local Search and Transportation
Local

Uber Partners With Foursquare to Combine Local Search and Transportation

11y Emily Alford

Uber Partners With Foursquare to Combine Local Sea...

Uber has continued a string of search-based partnerships, including Microsoft and YP, that will ostensibly give the car service app a leg up over Lyft...

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Is it time you spoke emoji?
Disruptive MarTech

Is it time you spoke emoji?

11y Rebecca Horsley

Is it time you spoke emoji?

The ‘Emoji IQ’ study of 2,000 Brits found that 80% are now using the colourful symbols to communicate. Check out how to master colourful linguistic re...

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Q+A: Is agency admin killing creativity?
Headline News

Q+A: Is agency admin killing creativity?

11y Lucinda Beeman

Q+A: Is agency admin killing creativity?

Here Ray Kieser, Global Practice Director: Marketing Communications at Deltek, tells .rising how agency professionals can make operational changes tha...

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The Battle for the Living Room Begins
Media

The Battle for the Living Room Begins

11y Larry Allen

The Battle for the Living Room Begins

Traditional cable companies are in trouble as more people forego traditional TV-watching for streaming digital video from providers like Netflix, Hulu...

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Windfall For Advertisers As Tencent Opens Third Party Data Access
Asia

Windfall For Advertisers As Tencent Opens Third Party Data Access

11y Sophie Loras

Windfall For Advertisers As Tencent Opens Third Pa...

Advertisers are set to gain an additional foothold in China's growing programmatic market after Tencent announced the launch of its third party data m...

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