Marks & Spencer has announced an increase in group sales of 3.1 per cent and revealed that mobile sales grew by over 70 per cent in the last year.
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AdMonsters is teaming up with The Drum to offer one reader the chance to attend its OPS event later this month.
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Dailymotion is launching its first TV production studio as it looks to bolster its original content output and drive competitive edge.
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Research by Socialbakers has discovered that 66 per cent of user generated tweets mentioning brands are now executed through mobile devices,
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International - 10/04/2013
The IAB's latest yearly digital advertising report has found a surge in spend of 12.5 per cent... Read more
EE has announced plans to double its 4G network speeds and capacity to more than 20MBs in ten UK cities by the summer - Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Sheffield.
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AOL Networks has launched supply-side platform (SSP) product called Marketplace as it looks to simplify the digital ad ecosystem for publishers.
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Mobile app Shazam has denied that it is set to expand its offer from music and TV advertising to clothing with a fashion app set for release.
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International - 10/04/2013
UK digital ad spend surged 12.5 per cent like-for-like to hit a record £5.42bn in 2012, with mobile accounting for 10 per cent of spend, according to the latest Digital Ad Spend report from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC.
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Google is planning to drive education of the value of real-time bidding (RTB) to advertisers by stripping out the complexity to drive mainstream take-up.
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FairSearch, a collaboration of 17 specialized search and technology companies whose members include Expedia, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle and TripAdvisor, have today filed a complaint with the European Commission about Google’s dominance in the mobile... Read more
It has been suggested that following over a month of negotiations, Google could be set to acquire WhatsApp for nearly $1billion.
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International - 08/04/2013
UK paid-search cost-per-clicks (CPCs) outstripped those in the US for the first time in the final... Read more
International - 08/04/2013
Industry experts gathered at the Internet Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) Real Time Advertising event in London last week to enforce a few home truths about the real-time bidding market. The Drum has rounded up some of the key themes and main points... Read more
Barack Obama's victory at the polls last year was far more pronounced than initially expected, with predictions that the presidential race would go to the wire proving well wide of the mark as he handily swept aside Mitt Romney.
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United States - 05/04/2013
Samsung has said it expects to continue its rise to smartphone dominance after projecting a healthy 53% increase in profits for the first quarter of 2013 to hit $7.7bn.
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EE, the 4G mobile provider, has been named as the exclusive UK launch partner for the first phone to feature Facebook’s new‚ Home‘ app, the HTC First.
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Facebook has announced new software for Android users from its event in its San Francisco headquarters, which invited people to “Come see our new home on Android” last week.
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North America - 04/04/2013
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