Google is planning to focus its investment in programmatic marketing, aiming to put 60% of its entire digital marketing budget into the format, according to its global chief marketing officer Lorraine Twohill.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday is over for another year and this new infographic series from IBM looks at some of the key statistics behind the shopping frenzy, revealing that mobile enjoyed a huge leap this year.

Over 3 billion people are now connected to the internet, marking an increase of 6.6% over last year, according to new research.

Online conversion rates in the UK this Christmas are expected to increase by more than a third compared to the rest of the year, according to new research.

Honda has faked a hack of its own Twitter account, handing the @Honda handle to Skeletor of ‘He-Man’ fame, even taking potshots at other brands, including Toyota and Burger King, with a number of humorous tweets.

The UK set to be first country spending over half of ad budget on digital as Brits ditch traditional media for gadgets, social networks and online shopping, according to new research.

Despite starting as a US tradition, Black Friday has taken off in Africa too, with online shopping mall Konga seeing a huge increase in sales over the sales period.

Three quarters of consumers that has a bad experience on a shopping site go directly to a competitor, according to new research.

From an avalanche of ice buckets to World Cup fever, 2014 was another big year for video viral marketing case studies. As mobile sharing went mainstream, it was charities that achieved some of the year’s biggest success stories with the ‘No Make Up Selfie’ and the ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ hinting at the future power of … [Read more…]

A British start-up has launched the country’s first nationwide same-day callout service for fixing broken smartphones.