Marmite, the iconic British brand from Unilever, is launching two Christmas limited edition jars, which consumers can personalise – available to buy at a pop-up store in Westfield Shepherds Bush from 23rd November to 24th December and via the Facebook app, hosted on the Marmite Facebook page, from 23rd November. Consumers will be given the […]
Of all the people globally on the internet, about half of them, nearly 1.5 billion, are on Facebook. The question for Facebook is how it and its advertisers will reach what it calls the next billion people, who will often be coming online for the first time, often only on mobile, and often on a […]
Universal Studios is hoping to drive sales for the 30th-anniversary edition of the Back to the Future film through an interactive Facebook messaging campaign in which users can converse with the Doc Brown character from the franchise. The film studio is rolling out all the stops to celebrate this year as the year of the […]
Facebook has confirmed plans for a new Suggested Videos feature that will suggest other videos a Facebook user might want to watch when they finish watching a video from their Newsfeed. In a blog post, Facebook VP of product management, Will Cathcart, says that while the company is still in the early days of testing, […]
Virtual reality is coming to Facebook news feeds. The company rolled out 360-degree videos brands and publishers can post to their pages. Desktop viewers just have to drag their mouse over a clip to change the angle, and on mobile, swiping across the screen changes the view. Disney and Lucasfilm have already used 360-degree video […]
Kellogg’s has announced the launch of a nationwide competition to find the UK’s most obsessed Crunchy Nut fan. The winner will take the title of the ‘Utter Crunchy Nutter’ and win a year’s supply of the cereal. Celebrity comedienne and self-confessed Crunchy Nut fan Ellie Taylor is fronting the competition launched via the Crunchy Nut […]
Internet giants Google, Facebook and Twitter have teamed up with the Internet Watch Foundation, an anti-child abuse charity, to pull indecent images from the web which have been identified by unique ‘hash’ codes. Not to be confused with a hashtag these codes are actually a photo-tagging system used to identify lists of inappropriate images for […]
Instagram is inviting users to “learn more” about how advertising will be added to the photo-sharing site and has unveiled an image of a test ad, which will roll out in the US next week. In a blog, the Facebook-owned social media site outlines what US users can expect to see soon. The photographs will […]
Virgin Media is the most socially engaged brand on Facebook according to a top five report from social media analytics platform Socialbakers. The telecoms firm had a 94 per cent response rate and the average response time was just over three hours. In second place, was mobile network provider EE who had a 90 per […]
The British Red Cross has launched an app that lets users witness a knife attack on a bus, using Facebook data to personalise an online film. The charity’s ‘Witness’ app integrates with a viewer’s Facebook account and inserts information from their profile into the film, which features a young man being stabbed on a night […]