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Is the digital industry unprepared for further rapid growth?
27 March 2014, 2:20PM

iskills 1Based on last year's performance, 2014 is predicted to be a good year for the UK advertising industry with digital marketing at the forefront of growth. As development in this sector continues, the Emarketeers iSkills survey, has set out to understand what shape the digital marketing industry is in when it comes to skills, experience, resource and recruitment.

Apps and mobile web: which strategy will lead the future?
27 March 2014, 1:28PM

social media appsEvery business today needs a mobile presence to effectively reach and engage their audiences. Many brands are seeing mobile (both smartphone and tablet) visitors now constituting between a third and half of their overall digital interactions, yet a lot still struggle to embrace this omni-channel world and to create the best experiences across multiple platforms.

Five ways to make Facebook work for your brand
27 March 2014, 10:28AM

Facebookbuilding640Facebook continues to be an important platform in the world of marketing, and now more than ever is a necessary element of any advertiser's media mix. In its Q4 2013 earnings report, Facebook stated that more than one million advertisers are now looking to reach the 750 million+ users who visit the site each day.

The rise of the selfie
27 March 2014, 10:16AM

Catie DearOver the last week, the phenomenon of the #nomakeupselfie has generated £8 million in donations to Cancer Research. No one can have failed to notice the trend, we've been barely able to navigate our Facebook newsfeed for the images of make-up free women (and men). But what is most interesting for marketing professionals is that this was not a campaign started by Cancer Research themselves, but from the front room of a Stoke-On-Trent young mum.

Pepsi pranks travellers with terrifying bus shelter shocker
26 March 2014, 12:53PM

PepsiWe've seen a spate of bus shelter advertising stunts going viral in the Brand Chart of late: from Photoshop's Street Retouch Prank last year, to more recent campaigns from the likes of Norwegian charity, SOS Children’s Villages and Duracell's Moments Of Warmth, which turned a bus shelter into a human powered battery to keep travellers warm. Now it looks like Pepsi Max is the latest brand to use a public transport waiting-stop to target unsuspecting passers by.

Has Google killed guest blogging?
26 March 2014, 10:44AM

Photo by Kirsty AndrewsThe keener eyed of you might raise an eyebrow that a guest blogger is tackling this topic, but over the past week guest blogging has come once again under scrutiny.

The industry chatter about the risks of guest blogging has been getting louder for more than a year. The first the warning shot was fired by Google's head of web spam Matt Cutts with his decay and fall of guest blogging post. Three months later and after a host of website penalties, it had become clear that guest posting was indeed a major risk if undertaken for the objective of SEO.

Seven myths about branded video content
26 March 2014, 10:20AM

Evian Baby and MeThe top three branded ads of 2013 were shared 11.6m times. That is 11.6m people clicking on a button to tell a friend about a piece of marketing from a company. It is the sort of active engagement that brand wonders dream of and so it is little wonder that 70% of marketers now use video as part of their online marketing mix.

(Don't) mind the gap
26 March 2014, 8:53AM

ShoppersThis post is provided by our partner MediaCo Outdoor.

The gap between London and the rest of Britain – subject of the recent BBC2 ‘Mind the Gap’ series, Evan Davis’ take on the subject – has been much in the news recently, though not always for the right reasons.

Did the Wearable Tech Expo deliver the goods?
25 March 2014, 2:21PM

Smartwatch by janitorsLast week saw London's Olympia host the UK's first ever Wearable Technology Conference and Expo, dedicated to showcasing the latest developments in smartwatches, wristbands and other wearable devices. With speakers from Microsoft, Google, Samsung and Intel, the show promised a lot, but did it live up to the hype?

Through the looking glass: The lessons of Gravity
25 March 2014, 8:16AM

Gravity"Lowry … stood across the road from his subjects and observed. Often enough there are a number of individuals in a crowd peering back at him. They invite us momentarily into their world, like characters on a stage sometimes do, breaking the fourth-wall illusion."

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