Forbes reveals top 30 social media influencers
Forbes has released its first-ever “Top Influencers” global list, compiling the most popular social media icons from three categories Beauty, Fitness, and Home.
Author: Robin Langford
Teens ditching smaller social networks for Snapchat and Instagram
Teens are now bunching their social network activity around four main social networks: Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook and have stopped using smaller ones such as Kik or Tumblr, according to new research.
Google Image Search app gets “similar items” shopping suggestions
The Google Image Search app for Android is getting a new “similar items” feature offering users a selection of products to buy related to their search.
Debenhams goes on affiliate marketing drive with CJ Affiliate
British multi-national retailer Debenhams has picked CJ Affiliate to serve Debenham’s affiliate marketing activity in the UK and Ireland in an exclusive partnership.
Heston Blumenthal Skype bot caters for cooking questions
Microsoft has teamed up with Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal on a Skype bot designed to improve people’s culinary skills.
Quicker than Agile: Is a thumb-friendly, voice-controlled t-shirt designer possible?
In 2013, Spreadshirt created a touch-optimised t-shirt design tool for tablets, but didn’t think it would catch on. But then it saw a 73% rise in smartphone orders. Tony Findeisen, the lead-developer at Spreadshirt, offers tips on how to create for the smartphone ecommerce experience.
Mobile drives digital ad spend past £10 billion threshold
Driven by advertisers’ need to tap into people’s rising use of mobile to watch content, digital advertising grew at its fastest rate for nine years – by 17.3pc to £10.3 billion in 2016, according to new research from the Internet Advertising Bureau UK / PwC Digital Adspend.
The top 20 most visible paid search advertisers in Google US
Amazon still leads the way as the top advertiser on Google in the USW, but retail sites are making way for travel sites, according to new research.
Consumers predict only short term success for LinkedIn and Snapchat
Only 11% of people are certain that Pinterest and LinkedIn will be used in a decade and only 14% are confident that Snapchat will still exist, according to new research.
New study finds a major gap in content marketing understanding as budgets soar
UK marketers are struggling to understand how to best spend their growing content marketing budgets and can’t find skilled people to deliver an effective plan.