Think Forward 2024: new report describes a ‘social reckoning’ for brands in value-driven online spaces

Think Forward 2024: new report describes a ‘social reckoning’ for brands in value-driven online spaces

Global socially-led creative agency We Are Social today launched the latest edition of its annual trends report, Think Forward 2024. This year’s report, titled ‘The Social Reckoning’, examines how, in a backdrop of increased commercialisation and commodification, people on social media are rethinking and reframing their worth. They are examining the value derived from their […]

Peak performance: Meta’s advertising rates plummet and spending on Reels soar

Peak performance: Meta’s advertising rates plummet and spending on Reels soar

As ecommerce brands prepare for peak season, digital advertising on Meta has seen a three-year record performance, having strongly recovered from the ‘double recession’ caused by Apple’s ATT update and consumers reverting to pre-Covid behaviours. This is a key finding from Nest Commerce’s latest quarterly Readout report, based on 1.5 billion+ Meta impressions from global campaigns […]

Clarion Communications serves up the latest insights in its most recent Food for Thought report

Clarion Communications serves up the latest insights in its most recent Food for Thought report

Want to know why things are looking sweet for the dessert occasion? Or how aspirational drinking remains ‘a thing’ despite the current economic climate? And is it really RIP for the restaurant Insta-moment? Using media intel, consumer insight and research, Clarion Communications today unveils some of the latest insight and trends from the ever-evolving food […]

Cringeworthy comms according to Gen Z employees

Cringeworthy comms according to Gen Z employees

“Generation Z, born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s, is entering the workforce with its unique set of expectations and preferences’ says 438 co-founder Andy Whitmore. “What this generation of digital natives isn’t expecting are the outdated methods that so many large, and supposedly ‘forward thinking’, innovation-led organisations are still adopting to ‘engage’ with them […]

Interbrand launches 2023 Breakthrough Brands Report revealing the emerging brands disrupting the global market

Interbrand launches 2023 Breakthrough Brands Report revealing the emerging brands disrupting the global market

– AI health scanning concept from Spotify co-founder, an elevated take on tinned fish, and an Indian matrimony app in the Top 12 – ‘Overnight success’ OpenAI joins other technology brands including luxury ‘sleep pod’ purveyor Eight Sleep and HiPhi premium electric vehicles – Creative studio KidSuper captures Gen Z’s digitally-rooted design language with its […]

New Report From Anzu and Lumen Unveils Gaming’s Untapped Potential for Attention-Driven Advertising

New Report From Anzu and Lumen Unveils Gaming’s Untapped Potential for Attention-Driven Advertising

A new report launched during Cannes Lions reveals the findings from a two year study into the impact of attention on digital advertising formats The world’s most advanced in-game advertising platform Anzu, and Lumen Research, the global attention technology company, have today announced the results from an extensive two year study into the impact of attention on […]

Snapchat reveals UK Monthly Active Users

Snapchat reveals UK Monthly Active Users

For the first time, Snapchat has published its local monthly active user figures – revealing that it now has over 21 million monthly active users in the UK. This growth comes as Snapchat continues to serve its UK community with a unique visual messaging experience, trending augmented reality lenses, engaging local content from news and […]

Spark Foundry’s Insight Accelerated report finds that VR enthusiasm soars, live shopping is growing, and sustainability tops searches in Q1 2023

Spark Foundry’s Insight Accelerated report finds that VR enthusiasm soars, live shopping is growing, and sustainability tops searches in Q1 2023

Spark Foundry, the UK Acceleration agency, outlines Q1 2023 trends in its latest insights report looking at Social Commerce, Sustainability and Gaming. Key stats are: Using Social Sparks (social listening), Intent-Based Planning (semantic analysis) and The Street (external panel), Spark Foundry’s ‘Insights Accelerated’ report looks at the trends in consumer spending and search habits when […]

We Are Social launches a sports-focused edition of its trends report, Think Forward

<strong>We Are Social launches a sports-focused edition of its trends report, Think Forward</strong>

Global socially-led creative agency We Are Social has released Think Forward: Sports Edition, a report covering emergent trends in digital sports culture. The agency has delved into the trends shaping sports marketing right now, helping sports brands, sponsors and rights holders address arguably the biggest crisis facing sport – why the next generations are switching […]