How to Use YouTube’s New Audio Ad Formats
Last week, YouTube announced the launch of new audio advertising formats as part of their slate of audio investments in 2020. Other announcements have included new sales capabilities in AdsManager and better optimisation opportunities in DV360. With more than 50% of logged-in users listening to…
Marketing For Brands On TikTok – Everything You Need To Know
TikTok has become a global phenomenon with a total of 800 million users worldwide. The marketing potential is huge and the reason for this is because TikTok’s short-form video model is loved by young audiences who prefer bite-sized content. In addition to this, what other…
New Google Page Experience Update – Core Web Vitals
Early in May 2020, Google announced Core Web Vitals – an initiative to provide unified guidance for quality signals that, they believe, are essential to delivering a great user experience on the web. This was the first part of their focus on user experience for…
Google launches mobile-first indexing
After a year-and-a-half of testing, Google mobile-first indexing has finally begun. Announced earlier this week on webmaster central blog, mobile-first indexing is now the new reality of how Google organises the web. Commencing on 26th March, Google started migrating websites which follow the best practices…
Streaming data arrives as video platforms prepare to lure brands
Online giants, we all know by now, would like to eat the TV business, and they’re not messing around. Working in feverish synchronisation, every big digital beast worth the name is constructing its own big-budget video content strategy. Apple is the latest to remind us…
Bing Intent Ads
Whenever you’re performing an online search, Bing is often overlooked next to its juggernaut rival, Google. We all know the latter is the world’s number one search engine, but Bing Ads with 918 million monthly searches, a market share of 25.1%, and ads appearing on…
The Skinny on Voice Search
Voice search originated in 2002, with the initial release of Google Voice search. 10 years later, Google released a new Google Search app for iOS, which featured an enhanced Google Voice Search function, aimed to compete with Apple’s voice assistant Siri. Since Apple’s Siri emerged…
How to spot fake news
This year fake news came of age. And not in a good way. The phenomenon first took centre stage during last year’s U.S. Presidential election, with false stories weaponised by Trump supporters, with the intention of causing maximum damage to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. …
The rise and rise of AI: where does it leave humans?
The boundaries between humans and machines are increasingly becoming blurry. Marketers are already contemplating how artificially intelligent (AI) machines will help them create smarter campaigns and personalise marketing messages in real-time. Companies are even debating the creation of a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) to take ownership of delivering…
Bixby might be our new BFF but will the friendship last?
A few weeks ago, Samsung introduced us to Bixby, an AI system making its debut in the new Galaxy S8. It’s being touted as the latest in virtual assistant software, and can do everything from taking a selfie to displaying a video on TV. Although Bixby’s only…