YouTube’s most well known vLogger, PewDiePie, is threatening to close his channel, after claiming the site is unsubscribing his fans without their consent and favouring ‘clickbait’ over quality content.
Amazon has opened its first convenience store today, giving shoppers a “Just Walk Out Shopping” experience with no need to stand in a line for the checkout.
London retailers are set to get a big boost from Spanish and Italian ‘shopcationers’ – people travelling to shop – this weekend, with the weak pound making the Capital the top destination for international shoppers over Europe’s “Immaculate Conception” public holiday, according to new data released today by lastminute.com group.
Almost 243 million visits to retail websites were recorded on the day of Black Friday, with a further 181 million visits on Cyber Monday, and a huge 777 million site visits across the whole weekend, according to new data.
Amazon is continuing its crack down on fake or paid-for reviews with a new set of limits on what a shopper can post.
Marks & Spencer is the nation’s favourite Christmas shop, with nearly a third of Brits planning to spend the most there this December.
From talking cat collars to robot marketers, technology took us in some strange directions during 2016. In this brave new world of emoji keyword targetting and smart pigeons, we celebrate the weirdest news of the year.
The next generation of digital natives see social media as a way to ‘build personal brands’ and prefer quality online relationships rather than a mass of followers, according to the results of an extensive five year study of 10-15 year olds.
Salmon, the global ecommerce consultancy in charge of online operations of some of the UK’s largest retail clients, has released some stats during the busy peak trading period of Black Friday week.
As 2016 draws to a close, we look as some of the biggest marketing blunders of the year. From Microsoft’s chatbot going rogue on Twitter to Gmail ‘April fooling’ itself, there were plenty of mistakes from companies that should know better. Read on, learn from the mistakes and hope your team doesn’t make the list … [Read more…]