This Week in Digital: w/c April 29th What’s happened this week: • AT&T released a connected home security product, illustrating how Digital technologies are allowing brands to extend into previously unrelated sectors. • New TV formats were announced that cross traditional media boundaries; o @SummerBreak is a new reality show that will air entirely across [...]

This Week in Digital: w/c March 4th          What’s happened this week: Facebook confirmed the purchase of the Atlas advertising technology stack from Microsoft, it may allow for many new capabilities for advertisers to utilise social data. Mobile World Congressconcluded. Points of interest included; New operating systems for Mobile Initiatives to enable cars with Mobile [...]

What’s happened this week: • Facebook revealed their latest numbers, as Mobile users exceeded Desktop for the first time they now see themselves as a Mobile company. o Positive signs for future income growth as ads in the news feed perform better than expected. • For Superbowl XLVII 36% of US viewers planned to dual [...]

This Week in Digital: w/c October 15th   What’s happened this week: The IAB announced H1 online advertising spendin the UK reached £2.6bn for the first six months of 2012, up 12.6% on 2011. Mobile ad spend grew 132% to over £181m for the same period. Twitter bought Vine a small video sharing startup, potentially heralding [...]

This Week in Digital: w/c May 28th and June 4th  It is a double TWiD due to the UK double bank holiday next week; we will be back on June 11th. What’s happened this week:. Facebook launched Facebook Camera an app not entirely dissimilar from the USD 1bn Instagram. The parent company of Juicy Couture [...]

This Week in Digital: w/c February 20th     What’s happened this week: Barclays launched pingit, a peer to peer money transfer servicefor mobile devices, downloaded 20,000 times in the first two days.  Important as the banks seek to avoid becoming the ‘dumb pipes of mobile money’. Twitter launched a self service ad platform allowing many more [...]

This Week in Digital: w/c February 6th      What’s happened this week: Facebook  have filled for their IPO to raise USD5bn, we can now see some of the real numbers behind the social juggernaut; 2.7bn likes/comments per day, USD388m spent on R&D and over USD3bn of advertising revenue. Sky announced a new over the top TV [...]

It is funny how simple forces can at times bring about substantial changes to your lifestyle. One evening, I was returning home after a long and beautiful hike where one of the conversations had been about eating healthier.  I opened my door wondering how I was going to succeed in satisfying my hunger without resorting [...]

This Week in Digital: w/c January 30th     What’s happened this week: Significant new policies from the web’s big players as they seek to consolidate their positions and grow in new markets; Google want to share personal data across their 60 services. Facebook will make Timeline compulsory for all. Twitter are now able to censor tweets [...]

We are very happy to say that this week the ‘New Living Room’ opened for business on the ground floor at Seymour Mews. It is the fourth media lab that we have created to illustrate to clients and partners our view of the challenges and opportunities created by advancing technology.  They go all the way [...]