This Week in Digital: w/c May 20th What’s happened this week: Yahoo has agreed to buy tumblr for USD 1.1bn. The Google I/O developer conference saw many significant announcements including; Upgrades for many products across maps, search, knowledge graph Now, G+ and photos. A music streaming service to challenge Spotify. Advertisers now have access to [...]
This Week in Digital: w/c May 13th …. Remember Vote KKP What’s happened this week: YouTube announced the launch of paid subscription channels, trialling a new source of income for content producers. Yahoo purchased Loki studios a mobile location gaming company, indicating moves in to new kinds of entertainment content. The Whitehouse enacted an executive [...]
This Week in Digital: w/c May 6th What’s happened this week: • Facebook announced their latest results with a big jump in mobile ad income. • Google Now launched on iOS, bringing a new kind of intelligent assistant to the platform. • The ‘Digital New Fronts’, an Internet version of TV’s Up fronts in the [...]
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 April 22nd What’s happened this week: The first explorer edition Google Glass units were made available to external developers, but don’t expect to see any advertising in the immediate future. Amazon Prime/LoveFilm premiered 14 original production pilots for worldwide consumers to preview and vote into full production. Twitter announced ad [...]
This Week in Digital: w/c April 15th What’s happened this week: LinkedIn bought news aggregator Pulse in a strategic move to publishing news content. Facebook launched ‘Partner Categories’ a potentially disruptive innovation that uses third party data sets to target ad messages. Twitter Music has quietly launched with a select few celebrity testing partners. It [...]
This Week in Digital: w/c April 8th What’s happened this week: Facebook launched ‘Home’ a service that goes beyond the app model to take over the home screen on Android devices as a pseudo Operating System. Amazon bought Goodreads in a move to accelerate social capabilities in book marketing and retailing. Twitter unveiled [...]
This Week in Digital: w/c March 25th What’s happened this week: • Google launched ‘Keep’ a note taking competitor to the Digital Evernote and the analogue Post-it note. • Apple bought indoor GPS company WifiSlam for USD 20m, potentially driving more sophisticated mapping features in stores and offices. • Google announced they are to allow [...]
This Week in Digital: w/c March 18th What’s happened this week: Samsung released the Galaxy S4 their flagship smartphone including touch-less gestures, eye tracking and real time health monitoring. Dropbox bought hot email service ‘mailbox’ for USD 100m possibly heralding a move into cloud based mail services. Google have re-launched their ‘Think Insights’ [...]
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 [...]
