Google owns Uber. Microsoft owns LinkedIn and Nokia. The web is an highly connected place with tangled relationships. Digital marketing firm Hallam Internet has created an interactive infographic to show the surprising connections between some of the most popular brands around- many of which they use on a daily basis.
Shoppers across the UK are set to splash out on home and garden essentials with the two bank holiday weekends coming up, according to new data from eBay Advertising.
Håkan Thyr, Director, Strategic partnerships, EMEA at ChannelAdvisor, offers some top tips for online marketers looking for extra visibility during peak seasons.
Remember Tay? Microsoft’s xenophobic, racist chatbot was a lesson in inefficient AI. The experiment, held on a dedicated Twitter account, quickly descended into chaos when the chatbot began sprouting Nazi support and offending Twitter users in various awful ways. Here, Howard Williams, marketing director of live chat software specialist Parker Software, considers the negative consumer … [Read more…]
UK consumers are set to spend big on cultural and experiential gifts for their loved ones in the run up to Valentine’s Day, according to new data from eBay Advertising.
eBay Advertising will run a ‘Programmatic Only Week’ between 6th and 12th February 2017, serving only ads bought on a programmatic basis, and only accepting bookings made programmatically.
The number of global adtech and martech deals completed in 2016 was 412, up by one deal on the previous year, but up $9.6bn in monetary terms, according to new research.
January offers brands a fresh opportunity to tap into renewed appetite for self indulgent shopping as premium purchases are set to rise following the gifting season, according to new data from eBay Advertising.
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.
As we fill our Christmas stockings with the latest must-have technology, what happens to the tech gadgets of Christmas past that were once at the cutting edge, but have now been superseded by advancements in innovation and design? New research shows those old Nokia’s may be worth something…