A sense of impending doom has intensified in recent years, with various news reports and television dramas depicting a near-future of fallible humans being forced onto the breadline, replaced by a superior workforce of robots.

While this dystopian theme has long been the fare of science fiction, for many, the prospect of C-3PO delivering their P45 is fast becoming a reality.

Indeed, the BBC’s ‘Will a robot take your job?’ report - collating data...

Within the world of digital marketing, there is a (tentative) expectation that Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) products will open up new and exciting doors to advertisers in the not-so-distant future.

Readers may already be familiar with the virtual dealership created by Cadillac, or Snap’s AR lenses, which allow advertisers to superimpose three dimensional objects onto real-world scenes.

Warner Bros. is one of the first companies to take up this offering, allowing Snapchat users to...

Luxury brands occupy a unique position within the digital marketing landscape, and can provide interesting insight into how the one-size-fits all approach to selling yourself on the internet is not always effective.

What makes a brand count as ‘luxury’? Is it the quality of the design or of the materials used? A little bit, but if these were the only criteria then any well-made smartphone or pair of trainers would count. The key to luxury when it comes to marketing is the idea of exclusivity, the...

Facebook and Instagram have been issued cease and desist notices over their respective ‘Frames’ and ‘geostickers’ use of geolocation-based image overlays.

The notices were issued by Miami-based United American Corp (UnitedCorp), a holding and management company that focuses on telecommunication and information technologies.

The potential patent violation relates to UnitedCorp’s iFramed technology, which was granted a patent by the US Patent Trademark Office on October 3 2017. The...

Gone are the days of guessing what each individual customer wants by researching demographic populations. Take inspiration from some of the largest tech companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google who are investing large amounts of money in machine learning and AI to predict what their customers want before they even know it. Learn how to become a savvier marketer with these suggestions to improve your overall ROI and business performance.

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Buzzfeed UK, the subsidiary of the US internet media company, has reported a pre-tax loss of £3.3 million last year.

This is despite more than doubling its turnover to £20.5 million on the previous years. This is the first year that the company’s accounts have been published in full at Companies House. Figures for 2015 show that the company reported a pre-tax profit of 338,395 and a turnover of £9.8 million.

Prior to 2016, the UK arm of the global media giant was still a small enough...

For those of you that haven’t seen the widely popular Adult Swim series Rick and Morty, this story is going to seem a little strange.

For fans of the show, McDonald’s recently announced decision to bring back its long dead Szechuan dipping sauce is a victory in keeping with the oddball nature of cartoon.

Rick and Morty follows the dimension-hopping, sci-fi adventures of the titular teenage Morty and his grandfather Rick, a man so smart that he is able to travel through the infinite realities of...

It is ironic that the point of B2B enterprise – offering scalable solutions to provide value – is the very thing that creates distance in their relationships with customers. Audience segmentation, analytics, business systems, workflows… all are set up to be efficient. And all that task-based activity makes it easy to focus on the business’ ‘belly button’ rather than on an actual client.

Many enterprises today find themselves entrenched in existing processes, relying on...

There are many different ways to get your company, your products, services and technologies spotlighted and featured in the top publications and web sites that cover your industry. You can buy your way in through newsletter and supplement sponsorships, you can purchase advertising and advertorials.

Another powerful way is through what is often labeled “earned media” – coverage that your information has earned because of its value.

This includes coverage generated by big news – large...

More money than ever is being allocated to digital marketing budgets, as companies and brands try to launch social media campaigns, publish videos and create content.

But according to research by digital agency Greenlight, only 36% of digital marketers are confident that they are targeting the right audience with their campaigns.

The agency surveyed over 200 digital marketers from across the UK and found that 23% were not tracking their campaign spend at all.

“It is clear that many in the industry are...