J. Walter Thompson Middle East and Africa’s Innovation Group released its sixth annual consumer trends report, covering the MENA region for 2018. The “Future 100 Trends and Change to Watch in MENA” captures key themes accelerating the pace of change for consumers in the fast and dynamic economies of Egypt, North Africa, Lebanon, Jordan, the […]
South African Tourism has appointed Ginger Juice as its UK social media agency for the next three years following a competitive tender process. The award-winning social media agency, which specialises in B2C marketing services to travel, tourism and hospitality brands, will provide strategic social media and digital support to raise awareness of South Africa in […]
The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has announced its predictions for the UK technology sector in 2018. The news comes following the launch of the seventeenth edition of TMT Predictions 2018. Machine Learning: Bargaining Chips A surge in deployment of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) and ASICs […]
Independent global marketing and media consultancy Ebiquity has announced the appointment of Alan Rutherford as Global Chairman of its Media practice. Rutherford will take up his new position this month, working closely with Group CEO Michael Karg to continue to transform Ebiquity’s client offering, deepen Ebiquity’s relationships with agency networks, represent Ebiquity at high profile […]
Consumers are engaging with retail brands on more channels than ever before – from Voice Assistants, smartphones, to smartwatches – with online continuing to take a sizeable share of total spend. It means that retailers are under increasing demand to ensure their entire cross-channel offering is seamless, and create exceptional customer experiences at every single […]
Ecrebo, the point of sale marketing (POS) specialist, announced the launch of its OnPoint software platform and associated product suite. OnPoint is the next generation of Ecrebo’s industry-leading POS marketing and digital receipt capabilities that have been extended and developed to directly address the emerging requirement for data-driven, personal engagement with shoppers. During NRF 2018 […]
Ad tech firms Rezonence and Smartology, along with science and technology institute and media owner, The Smithsonian, are to become the first associate members of the World Media Group as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. To date members of the World Media Group, a strategic alliance of organisations who are committed to promoting award winning […]
For brands navigating the digital age where the Bitcoin is becoming a credible currency, likes are the new social platform currency rapidly catching up with real money. Strellson and Serviceplan were ahead of the curve with ‘The Like Shop’, which enabled fashion lovers to purchase the Spring/ Summer 2017 collection with likes instead of money. […]
Cathedral City, one of the UK’s favourite cheese brand, returns to TV screens this January, sponsoring brand-new ITV family quiz show Britain’s Brightest Family. The sponsorship, arranged through media agency UM, launches on 10th January and is supporting episodes of ITV’s new family-focused knock-out quiz hosted by The Chase Governess, Anne Hegerty. It marks Cathedral […]
Dentsu Aegis Network’s latest Ad Spend Forecasts, based on data received from 59 markets, puts global growth at 3.6% in 2018, up from 3.1% in 2017. Events will play an important role in 2018, with the Winter Olympics & Paralympics, FIFA World Cup in Russia and the US Congressional elections all expected to stimulate ad spend growth. At […]