Marketing automation platform Force24 has announced its acquisition of the social media innovation SoAmpli for an undisclosed sum, in what marks the company’s latest move to become the UK’s leading martech provider. SoAmpli is the brainchild of Maz Nadjm, who also founded one of the UK’s first social networks 2BMates and social agency Rareface, before […]
Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency, has made a major investment into the expansion of its in-housing solution as it launches a new ad tech consultancy practice in EMEA. The new ad tech consultancy gives clients the ability to access Merkle’s full range of services and talent across its addressable media, customer strategy, […]
The&Partnership Nordics has created a new campaign, ‘Femti Femti’ (“Fifty Fiftyâ€) for Swedish household retailer Tretti, revealing how the equal sharing of household chores leads to longer-lasting love. ‘Femti Femti’ is based on data from Stockholm University, which shows that couples who share household chores equally stay together longer – and that arguments over housework […]
HUAWEI has created an app, that allows blind people to ‘see’ or experience emotions on the faces of people they are speaking to using the power of artificial intelligence (AI). The Facing Emotions app utilises the powerful camera and AI of the HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro, to translate seven universal human emotions, into seven unique […]
For 2018’s festive season, marketing communications agency Edit, part of Kin + Carta, has taken on a very different approach to their usual Christmas card brief and used artificial intelligence to reconstruct famous Christmas carols to send to their client base. According to Larry Page, Google co-founder, “Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The […]
Fetch, the award-winning mobile-first agency, part of Dentsu Aegis Network, has announced it has developed, (in collaboration with Autosermo) the first ever UK transactional Gifting Bot within the QSR space. Fetch is helping Greggs bring the joy of giving to everyone this festive season. The Gifting Bot will allow the customer to purchase Greggs goods […]
WARC, the global authority on advertising and media effectiveness, has released Marketer’s Toolkit 2019, an annual report outlining the priorities of, and challenges facing, brands in the year ahead – as well as guidance on how to meet them. The report is centred on a survey of more than 800 senior marketing and advertising professionals […]
Here comes an innovative idea from one of the most premium sound company, Bowers & Wilkins. The outcome? A creative piece of sound made together with some of Sweden’s best sound experts. Every year, as the holidays approach, we hear the same Christmas songs played over and over again. But instead of spreading joy, experts and […]
A study launched by Gekko, a marketing agency titled – ‘Service not Sci-fi’ reveals that UK shoppers would rather deal with real people not robots or artificial intelligence when it comes to shopping. The study found that 81% of UK shoppers claim the personal touch has disappeared from retail customer service in modern Britain, with almost a third (32 […]
Multi award-winning, VR-led entertainment business dotdotdot has appointed Kallaway to launch its new production; Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of ‘The War of the Worlds’: The Immersive Experience which will open on 31 May 2019. dotdotdot audiences are taken to another world through immersive theatre, virtual reality, holograms and other state-of-the-art technology. SOMNAI, dotdotdot’s first production, attracted over 20,000 customers over just four months. […]