65% of all money spent on advertising in digital media in 2019 will be traded programmatically, according to Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecasts, published on November 19. Advertisers will spend US$84bn programmatically next year, up from US$70bn this year, which represents 62% of digital media expenditure. Zenith predict that in 2020 advertisers will spend US$98bn on […]
Independent global creative agency Imagination announces Lume; in collaboration with The Lee Lab at the University of Cambridge. Lume is an innovative virtual reality (VR) platform for analysts to better visualise, discover, explore and share their data. Lume leverages the power of immersion and data analytics to make highly complex data intuitive to understand, […]
Data driven intelligence company Future Thinking has appointed Jim Stevenson as Group CEO. Stevenson has a proven track record with over 20 years’ experience in growing businesses through strategic realignment and transformation for the digital economy. Prior to joining Future Thinking, Stevenson was CEO and founder of The Bletchley Group, which provides consultancy on agile […]
Momentum Worldwide, the world’s leading global experiential advertising agency, has launched MomentumBi. A first-of-its-kind business intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence to ingest structured and unstructured data to provide real-time insights that inform, enhance and measure experiential advertising. As a cloud-based, cognitive platform with AI capabilities, MomentumBi correlates Momentum’s proprietary experiential data with sales, media, […]
New research released by TransUnion (formerly Callcredit) has revealed only half (50%) of marketers felt confident they were fully compliant at the time of the GDPR deadline on 25 May 2018. As a result, marketers had to remove nearly a quarter (23%) of marketing records to achieve compliance, but just under three-quarters (73%) of marketers […]
Virgin Holidays launches the Trending Travel Guide – a digital platform that updates daily to give real-time holiday recommendations. By analysing an astonishing 25 million social media interactions, the data-driven guide brings the most popular bars, restaurants and attractions to the top of its online hotlist. As the popularity of guidebooks wanes and social media […]
Customer engagement agency STACK has announced the appointment of Merkle’s Andy O’Brien and Ian Skinner to expand its management team. O’Brien will join as Head of Data Planning and Skinner will become Head of Data Science. Both will work across strategic clients and report to Chief Data Officer Mark King, who joined in March as […]
MarTech firm, AudienceProject, is launching a ground-breaking new Addressable TV measurement solution – the first of its kind to be based on individual data rather than modelled data. The new Addressable TV measurement solution enables true cross-device campaign evaluation at an individual level on devices such as Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, PlayStation, etc. as well […]
Alchemetrics has joined forces with cloud-based, customer solutions technology specialist, Transcend360 to create a new approach to privacy in the post GDPR environment. The concept of Privacy by Design, which gives customers greater control of their preferences, underpins the design of the platform, Preference360. The platform enables brands to provide customers with an intuitive and easy […]
Algorithms have become so present in people’s lives that they can influence hundreds of our decisions every day without even being noticed. With eyes fixed on smartphones, desktops, TVs, and other screens, people are impacted by mathematical formulas that help to create a strange pattern about movies or shows they watch, products they buy, and […]