Digital Intelligence

Google has struck a deal with the Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Alliance, the world's largest maker of cars, to be able to use Google Maps, Google Assistant and the Android OS in its vehicles.

20/09/2018  |  Full story...

Hootsuite has integrated Google Ads into its platform allowing customers to bring together search and social advertising campaigns for the first time.

20/09/2018  |  Full story...

YouTube has announced the new vertical video ads now available for TrueView and Universal App campaigns that will ‘seamlessly adapt’ to horizontal and vertical formats depending on how the viewer is holding the phone.

14/09/2018  |  Full story...

Kelkoo has become a premium partner with Google Shopping Ads, which it claims will offer retailers an average saving of 32% on total ad spend by bypassing the premiums faced by retailers on Google Shopping.

11/09/2018  |  Full story...

Google has launched new advertising tool, Smart Campaigns, to all businesses across the UK, letting brands create customised ads based on data provided by a business and its assets.

10/09/2018  |  Full story...

Argos has launched a voice shopping service, letting people sell and reserve its products through Google Home.

10/09/2018  |  Full story...

Google has launched a new "ad strength" metric that measures the relevance, quantity and diversity of ad copy.

31/08/2018  |  Full story...

Google has updated its travel tools with a new feature that shows how prices change for flights to popular holiday destinations.

29/08/2018  |  Full story...

Chinese search giant Baidu has issued a warning to Google, claiming to be the new search trendsetter, following the US-firms plans to re-enter the China with a ‘censored’ search engine.

28/08/2018  |  Full story...

Google Maps services on Android and iPhone devices store records of a user’s location even after they have enabled privacy settings that claim to halt the practice, according to a new report.

16/08/2018  |  Full story...

Facebook has been losing US users over the last two years as they flock to rival services such as YouTube, according to new research.

14/08/2018  |  Full story...

Online media giants including Google and Facebook are to restrict content from Alex Jones, a right wing political pundit, and his blog Infowars, for breaching their guidelines in a move against "hate content".

07/08/2018  |  Full story...

Google is reportedly working on a censored version of its search engine in a bid to get round its ban in China.

03/08/2018  |  Full story...

Google’s parent company Alphabet has beaten earnings expectations, getting $32.7bn in revenue in the three months to the end of June, after the firm reported stronger ad sales than expected.

24/07/2018  |  Full story...

Google has been fined €4.34bn (£3.8bn) by the EU for abusing its control of the Android operating system by forcing vendors to pre-install its apps.

20/07/2018  |  Full story...

Google has launched a job searching service in the UK, following its rollout in the US, offering users local results if they're looking for a new role.

18/07/2018  |  Full story...

Google has launched a suite of ad-buying tools that will let machines instead of humans fine-tune ads and determine where they should run.

12/07/2018  |  Full story...

Ahead of the rollout of Google’s mobile “Speed Update” in July 2018, a new study suggests that marketers should take note that faster-loading pages already are deciding winners over losers in mobile searches.

29/06/2018  |  Full story...

Google’s ad system is getting a major overhaul this week that will see its flagship AdWords and DoubleClick advertising products renamed under a new streamlined platform.

28/06/2018  |  Full story...

MyLine, a project by MullenLowe SSP3 in Bogota that gave people in remote areas access to online services using a landline, has won the Innovation Lions Grand Prix at Cannes.

25/06/2018  |  Full story...

In both mobile and desktop searches for travel, Google now shows on average 8.8 organic blue links on page one (down from the traditional ten), according to new travel sector-specific research.

21/06/2018  |  Full story...

Apple is updating its Safari web browser with an option for users to block Facebook and Google’s data collection practices.

05/06/2018  |  Full story...

Google has begun the global roll out of Digital Audio Ads on DoubleClick Bid Manager, letting advertisers send radio-style programmatic ads to Google Play Music, Spotify, SoundCloud, TuneIn and soon Pandora.

01/06/2018  |  Full story...

Google has struck a partnership with Urban Airship, a digital growth company, to launch a mobile wallet function on Google Pay.

10/05/2018  |  Full story...

Google’s annual developer conference this year showed how the internet giant sees AI as the future, from Gmail that writes itself to an Assistant that makes appointment- based phone calls for you. We look at ten of the biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018…

10/05/2018  |  Full story...