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Sainsburys faced some interesting social media comments today via Twitter, as it revamped and rebranded its lunchtime meal deal offering. 

According to its official Twitter feed, it has changed packaging, ingredients and the items available in a £3 meal deal as of today.

Its 'On the Go' products are now fresher, more varied and include more choice for consumers, its Twitter feed claims, but many tweets suggest that their usual products have been...

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When was the last time you clicked through a Facebook ad? For most of us, it’s actually quite tricky question to answer despite using the social media service on a daily basis.

The fact is even targeted audience technologies that are deemed sophisticated within the industry are still viewed by consumers as an annoyance and a barrier to their desired content.

According to LinkedIn, 4.6 billion pieces of content are produced every day and in many cases these simply...

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Manchester City hit headlines earlier this year for its latest signing: an 18-year-old star who will never have to kick a football. Kieran Brown is the club’s first official eGamer, and will represent The Sky Blues at international eSports tournaments and fan events.

Far from a one off, it follows similar signings by West Ham and German side Wolfsberg, confirming that eSports has well and truly gone mainstream. 

And it’s not just in football that eSports is becoming big...

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What does brand loyalty mean to you? Does it equate to money off vouchers, in-store credit and points accumulation, or should loyalty be rewarded with behavioural change that makes our lives easier, more meaningful and improves our wellbeing?

For anyone with a plastic brand loyalty card that’s always impossible to find in a bag or...

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The Rio Olympics 2016 will be celebrating and showcasing a variety of sports as the world watches, something that all sorts of brands will be keen to take advantage of.

As with any sporting event, the Olympics are a great platform to expose your brand to a mass global audience, and it’s interesting to note how advances in tech have it made much easier for them to do so.

Unlike before, digital innovations will help brands create a unique way for their customers to experience the Games....

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When was the last time you found yourself talking to your computer or smartphone? Whether it’s Cortana, Google, Siri or any of the other voice recognition systems out there now, these are the just the beginning of the growing number new approaches to computer learning and marketing.

If proof that we are entering a new era of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) look no further than Google’s project DeepMind, which is the tech giant’s AI computer that...

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Personal branding might sound like an unsavoury practice reserved for the gurus and ninjas of the marketing world. However, like social media itself, it’s not something you can opt out of today.

You have a digital footprint and if you don’t take control of it, then others will. So how do you make it work for you?

Personal branding is about injecting your personality to your business mode. In an age dominated by social media, people trust people, and their individual quirks, more than a...

The explosion in eCommerce and digital marketing witnessed in the past decade has had some intriguing consequences for the structure of modern businesses.

For one, web analytics tools have become some kind of holy scripture for marketing, prophesying market trends while denouncing the fake idols of online surveys and consumer focus groups.

Big data is one of the biggest influencers on how companies structure their online content. But a phrase few marketing professionals seem to be discussing could provide an...

In today’s online world, it’s no longer enough for an ambitious brand to just have an attractive shopfront on the high street and a recognisable logo.

While they are important, the growth of the internet means that the whole world is now your potential customer base, so it’s important to give extra thought to how you market your business online.

However, with the internet being such a crowded space, there are a number of things you need to consider to minimise the chance of your...

Every new stat on mobile adoption should serve as a wake-up call to brands that are still ignoring the growth in mobile transactions, which last year were worth more than £20bn to British retailers.

By 2019, retail mCommerce sales will reach £40bn and represent 43.7% of total retail eCommerce, according to eMarketer.

As it stands, mobile payments make up a third of all UK transactions. The rapid evolution in retail technology has opened the floodgates for...