The Amazon Echo Arrives at Tug!
Recently at Tug we have been able to get our hands on the new Amazon Echo! It was launched officially on the 6th of November 2014, but September the 28th of this year saw it finally become available in the UK. The Echo is a…
TugTalks Kickoff – Pete Trainor
Last Friday we had the pleasure of hosting our first TugTalks event. TugTalks is a task that has been set for us graduates to, once a month, bring a person of interest from outside of the agency in to give a short talk. The main…
Humans V Chatbots: The Modern Customer Journey
Customer service issues: they’ve come a long way from that tiny desk located in the smallest back-end corner of the store. No longer do we drag ourselves into cities only to hear from monotone staff members how our receipt is one day out of date…
Google Announces Addressable TV Solution
With the meteoric rise of programmatic advertising in the last 10 years, it was inevitable that TV would finally get the treatment. With an increasing number of devices being used to watch television and advertisers no longer happy with purchasing placements based on wide ranging…
Interactive Mobile Advertising
In the past few months Google has been doing more research than ever into mobile advertising. Just months after they released the Mobile App Marketing Insights Guide, Google has launched two new types of mobile app advertisements. This could be because the insight guide revealed…
All New Insta-Ads!
Tug is now able to advertise on Instagram! As the development uses the existing Facebook Business Manager to create, target, monitor and measure campaigns, it means that it is easier for small and large businesses to buy ads on the platform. So for us at…
How Virtual Reality will change the way we do content
Virtual Reality is big right now. Oculus Rift, the headmount that allows you to interact with a computer-simulated reality will become accessible to the public in early 2016 priced at £350 initially. Making the product become more available to the public, will likely change the…
The really big Big Trak
If you want to admit your age we’ll have a show of hands as to who remembers Big Trak ?! I vaguely remember my brother getting far too excited about a programmable electric vehicle that sort of resembled a tank in the early 80s….
Channel 4 & Programmatic TV: Will it Work?
With 2015 being hailed the “year of video”, the rise in discussion of programmatic TV in recent months has been meteoric, with launches finally reaching the UK. Channel 4 announced recently that they were launching their own, programmatic-direct buy inventory on their Samsung TV app,…
It’s My Data And I’ll Target If I Want To – Or Is Someone Else’s Better?
Earlier today myself and Tug’s Head of Biddable Media Ollie, gave a keynote presentation at the IAB on realising the potential of data enhanced targeting and it got me thinking – is third party data really relevant in the current state of the industry? Especially…