The yearly Hootsuite digital report has hit the stands again – and has found social media use continues to climb amid the issues of fake news and privacy fears.

The report, which clocks in at 200 pages for the global edition, shows an uptick across the board in terms of social and digital growth. Active social media users went up 9% year on year to almost 3.5 billion globally, while mobile social media users went up 10% to 3.25...

Corporate narratives are changing. Thanks to the branding teams at household names like Gillette and Nike,...

The digital landscape is continually evolving—and the major search engines regularly roll out new algorithm updates—so SEO specialists have learned to stay flexible and reactive. As the industry inches closer and closer to relying on comprehensive machine learning, data points, SEO professionals must again evolve with the times. Content was king—and in some sense, it still is—but more and more SEO professionals see the writing on the wall and are...

Retail has witnessed significant change in recent years as the overlap between online and in-store continues to blur. The competition has intensified as technology has created new opportunities for innovators and the overall retail landscape is now more unpredictable than ever before.

Consumers drive the charge behind technological innovation in the British retail sector; indeed, according to the ONS, the average weekly...

If you sometimes wonder what your communications team actually does, apart from sharing corporate news, earnings announcements and dealing with the odd crisis you may want to think again. Often viewed as the dark horse of the business, internal communications and these wizards with words have the ability to transform your organisation and employee engagement for the better.

It’s no surprise...

The quality of (big) data has for a long time been a crux for CMOs. Instead of creating a true view that positions their brand to make sound decisions, CMOs are having to "stitch together" their data from different sources. They’re creating data Frankenstein monsters from different warehouses, assembling disparate findings, and failing to optimise decisions around the...

It’s no secret that digital innovation has disrupted the retail industry. Hybrid shopping habits such as showrooming are the norm for 75% of British consumers, and half (51%) spend more online than in physical stores.

When it comes to...

The future of cryptocurrency is murky, at best. The same cannot be said for blockchain, which is the technology that enables cryptocurrency’s existence. Global spending on blockchain technology is on pace to reach $11.7 billion by 2022.

2018 has certainly been an interesting year both for the digital marketing industry and those at the front line. The exciting part – or terrifying, depending on where you stand – is that it is only going to get bigger, with WARC estimating in September that martech spend was at $100 billion globally.

Here, we take a...

With 2019 already underway, we’ve wrapped up what’s been a transformative year for adland. Technology continues to develop at the speed of light, while significant policy changes have earned our industry a spot in the media limelight – not to mention the business break ups and make ups as the market continues to consolidate.

There’s no doubt that 2019 will come with its own raft of trends – here’s what...