Top 20 car brand searches: Ford takes pole position
Ford takes the lead as the most searched for Automotive brand in the UK, accounting for just over 11% of all branded searches between January 2011 and March 2011, according to new research.
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Top 5 tips: What you really need to know about online insight monitoring
Online insight monitoring is becoming an increasingly hot topic, not just in the world of marketing but across an organisation, as companies realise that it provides a near-real-time means to measure what is being said about them online, what is driving the online debate, and most importantly, what stakeholders are the most influential according to … [Read more…]
Will this year see the UK’s first £1m mobile campaign?
The UK will experience the market’s first £1 million mobile advertising campaign in 2011, according to a new report from mobileSQUARED.
DraftFCB buys UK digital agency Blue Baracuda
DraftFCB has bought London-based Blue Barracuda, as part of agency’s new ‘international mergers and acquisitions programme’.
Vodafone debuts mobile charger and SMS payment in taxis
Vodafone has launched a new service that lets its customers charge their phones in the back of select London taxi cabs, and even pay cabbies via SMS.
Flickr ‘Royal Wedding Album’ shows what the world was doing on the big day
Flickr has launched ‘The People’s Royal Wedding Album’, a competition that aims to capture how the British public marked the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Right to reply: Will the PSN hack undermine credit card confidence?
Sony recently admitted that the personal information of 77 million of its customers, 3 million of them Britons, is now in the hands of hackers. That’s the same as unofficial estimates of the UK’s population. Justin Schamotta is a senior staff writer for Choose.net, looks into the implications of one the biggest data heists in … [Read more…]
‘Gambling.com’ becomes most expensive domain name of the year
Sedo, the online domain specialist, today announces that it has brokered the sale of gambling.com for $2.5 million, the highest price for a web address this year.
‘First-ever’ church service launched on Facebook
Internet church ‘St Pixels’ will be at the International Christian Resources Exhibition to host the first-ever interactive service on Facebook next week (Tue 10 May, 1 and 3pm).
‘TimeForTelly’ site offers cross platform TV guide
A new TV search website, TimeForTelly, has launched, designed for offer UK consumers a one-stop platform to catch up on the week’s TV, whether on digital or online.