The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has found more than one in 10 shops in the UK’s town centres were empty in October as retailers were suffering rising costs and stagnating sales. Adam Stewart at Rakuten’s Play.com, looks at why a strong multi-channel strategy is becoming more important.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into how online retailers in the UK are using software and data to target individual customers with personalised prices.
Mobile marketing agency Sponge has released a ten-point action plan outlining how retailers need to evolve their loyalty programmes.
Google Shopping announced yesterday that the European roll out of the paid Shopping will start in February. Marc Warren, MD of Periscopix, looks at what this means for retailers
Eleanor Bradley, Director of Operations for Nominet, the non-profit organisation responsible for managing the .uk domain space, explains a current proposal to launch direct.uk domains and how you can have your say on the future of the internet for British businesses
Around 16 million people in the UK lack basic web literacy skills, potentially holding up economic growth to the tune of £63bn, according to a new report released by UK digital champion Martha Lane Fox.
This interactive YouTube video forms part of John West’s latest £6m marketing efforts to showcase its ethical fishing practices. The ‘story in a can’ campaign invites UK consumers to track exactly where their canned fish comes from. See why it’s our video viral of the week below…
More than half (54%) of all UK office workers have engaged in at least one romance while at work, an activity which could cost each large business tens of thousands of pounds a year in lost productivity, according to a new study.
Call tracking and analytics firm AdInsight has rebranded under the new name ResponseTap.
Rivalry between sales and marketing departments is commonplace in large organisations, with leads often lost as a result. Ahmed Ahmed at Tomorrow People looks at the fraught relationship between the two departments (and the things they call each other!)