Sep 7, 2020 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Marketing transformation, Mobile, Online advertising, Regulation, UK
What personal data is being collected when ordering your favourite takeaway online with the likes of Deliveroo, JustEat and UberEats? A new study has analysed privacy policies from the UK’s most popular food apps.
Sep 4, 2020 | Facebook marketing, Instagram, Regulation, Social, Social media, USA
Facebook has announced that it will not take on any new political ads in the seven days prior to the US election in November, but will still allow existing ads to continue to be promoted and targeted at different users.
Sep 3, 2020 | E-commerce and E-retailing, UK
Amazon is planning to create 7,000 jobs in the coming months at its warehouses and other sites across the UK, spread across more than 50 sites.
Sep 1, 2020 | E-commerce and E-retailing, UK
Waitrose has struck a deal to sell online groceries through Deliveroo, sparking speculation over a possible tie-up with Amazon, which owns a major stake in the takeaway courier.
Sep 1, 2020 | Content marketing, Instagram, Online advertising, Online video, UK, Viral and buyrals
The UK Government has revealed that it paid social media influencers and reality TV stars to promote its NHS Test and Trace system.
Aug 28, 2020 | AR, Content marketing, Mobile, Social, USA
Walmart has teamed up with Microsoft in their bid to buy TikTok, as the bidding war for the social video sharing app heats up in the US.
Aug 28, 2020 | Social, South Africa
This year has seen an increase of 81% of people joining or signing a petition, with user growth increasing globally by a third, according to new research.
Aug 26, 2020 | Content marketing, Online advertising, Online video, Social, UK
Parenting influencer agency Channel Mum is looking for new influencers who have at least 10,000 followers across their channels, after appetite for content soared during lockdown.
Aug 26, 2020 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Search engine marketing, UK
The vast majority (88%) of Brits feel that having the confidence to venture out in their local area and visit local businesses is important to reviving the UK’s local economies, with likely continue local shopping more beyond the Covid-19 pandemic.
Aug 26, 2020 | Ad tech, Content marketing, Online advertising, Online video, UK
ITV has struck a partnership with identity infrastructure platform InfoSum, to make its 30 million ITV Hub subscribers available for targeted advertising, without the need to share any first-party data.
Aug 21, 2020 | Social, USA
US President Donald Trump has said tech giant Oracle would be “a great company” to take over TikTok’s US operations.
Aug 20, 2020 | E-commerce and E-retailing, UK
UK grocery sales grew 14.4% in the 12 weeks to Aug 9th, marking a slight decline from last month’s data as shopping habits eased back towards normality after months of pandemic lockdown, according to new data.
Aug 20, 2020 | Online advertising, UK
As demand for ecommerce remains buoyed and online remains the channel of choice for shoppers, website visits rose +2.9% month-on-month in July, according to new research.
Aug 19, 2020 | Australia and New Zealand, Regulation, Search engine marketing
Google is opposing an Australian law forcing tech giants to pay local news outlets, warning it could threaten search services in the country.
Aug 18, 2020 | USA
With less than 80 days to go until US Election Day, NBC News has launched Plan Your Vote, an interactive tool, which encourages Americans to plan out when and how they will vote this year.
Aug 14, 2020 | Social, Social media, UK
TikTok rival Triller is deploying 7digital’s global music catalogue to expand its social music video app.
Aug 12, 2020 | Content marketing, Social, Twitter marketing, UK, Unilever - Research, tips and news for marketers
Ice cream brand Ben and Jerry’s has criticised the UK Government’s call for the Navy to stop migrants crossing the Channel, sparking a war of words with the Home Office, which claimed it did not care about angering ‘a brand of over-priced junk food’.
Aug 10, 2020 | Ad tech, Email marketing, Online advertising, UK
There are some early signs of positivity in marketing, with revenues starting to return, but difficult decisions lie ahead about retaining staff to ensure organisations make it through the pandemic period, according to new research.
Aug 10, 2020 | Ad tech, Content marketing, Mobile, Online advertising, USA
Digital and mobile ad spend in the US will grow modest amount in 2020, even as the pandemic cause overall ad spend to plunge $16.4bn, according to new research.
Aug 6, 2020 | Content marketing, FMCG digital marketing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, Online advertising, Online video, UK
Coca Cola has launched its first major ad post lockdown with a manifesto poem written by George “The Poet” Mpang.