New Media Age
16-22 July 2011
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Aegis buys stake in mobile agency TigerSpike for $11m
Mon, 18 Jul 2011
Aegis Group has bought a stake in mobile technology company Tigerspike for $11m (£6.8m) to bolster its mobile marketing services.
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Apple's quarterly revenues top £17bn
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Record iPhone and iPad sales drove Apple’s revenue to top $28.57bn (£17.7bn) with a net profit of $7.31bn (£4.53bn) during the last quarter.
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Associated Press launches digital athletics package as testbed for Olympics
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
The Associated Press will launch its first multi-format digital sports feed next month, in preparation for a dedicated digital Olympics package next year.
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Auto Trader responds to surge in mobile traffic with iPad app
Tue, 19 Jul 2011
Auto Trader has launched its first iPad app after seeing a 133% rise in traffic to its website from iPad and iPhone in the six months to May.
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Autoglass launches Facebook commerce app
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Autoglass has launched a Facebook store to make booking car glass repairs more convenient for its customers.
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BBC launches project to map UK mobile coverage
Mon, 18 Jul 2011
The BBC has kicked off a project to map the reach of UK’s 2G and 3G mobile broadband coverage.
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Brands shift spend into Facebook, driving up ad cost
Tue, 19 Jul 2011
Research from social media agency TBG reveals that an increase in brand spend on Facebook is helping to drive up ad prices.
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Buddy Media sets up European office
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
WPP-backed social media company Buddy Media has set up its first European office in the UK.
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CEO exits Everything Everywhere
Mon, 18 Jul 2011
Everything Everywhere CEO Tom Alexander has resigned from the UK’s largest mobile operator citing personal reasons.
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Channel 4 launches TV check-ins following GetGlue tie-up
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Channel 4 has launched a check-in service for new drama Beaver Falls following a tie-up with US social network GetGlue.
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Dailymotion signs exclusive deal to broadcast Fulham FC UEFA Europa League qualifiers
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
Dailymotion will broadcast tonight’s second leg of Fulham FC’s Europa League qualifier.
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eBay revenues bolstered by PayPal growth
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
EBay revenues rose by 25% in second quarter of this year, boosted by a strong performance by its payments platform PayPal.
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Expedia and Lastminute partner with travel Facebook app Gekko
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
Major online travel brands including Booking.com and Expedia have agreed a deal to sell holidays directly from Facebook travel app Gekko.
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Facebook ad rates rise due to a surge in brand spend
Tue, 19 Jul 2011
Ad rates on Facebook are increasing significantly as companies are turning to the social network for brand advertising, according to new research from TBG Digital.
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Facebook joins Ad Association Children’s Panel
Tue, 19 Jul 2011
Facebook has joined the Advertising Association (AA) Children’s Panel to help address concerns set out in the recent Bailey Review.
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Facebook stores can be a right move for some brands
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
One of the hot topics for this year has been brands opening stores on Facebook. But as with a lot of new channels, it has polarised opinion.
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Foursquare moots business charges
Tue, 19 Jul 2011
Foursquare is planning to diversify its revenue streams by introducing new charges for both SMEs and brands to use its platform.
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Future Publishing to drop eight titles in focus on digital
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
Future Publishing is to drop eight of its print titles as part of plans to divert resources to focus on digital product development.
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Gannett's rise in digital revenue doesn't offset dip in earnings
Tue, 19 Jul 2011
US media group Gannett, parent company of USA Today and UK regional publisher Newsquest, has seen an overall revenue decline in its Q2 results, despite a 13% in digital turnover
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Google to sell Harry Potter ebooks
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
Google will sell Harry Potter ebooks via the Google eBooks platform after signing a deal with Sony-owned Pottermore, the JK Rowling-endorsed digital version of the series.
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Google+ hits 20m users
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
Google’s social network Google+ has attracted 20m unique users within three weeks, according to research from Comscore.
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Google+ iPhone app goes live
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Google has launched a Google+ iPhone app.
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Google+ targeting could eclipse Facebook's success
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Facebook may have begun to take brand spend from TV and press, but if Google+ can attract enough users, the commercial potential of its social targeting may be enough to eclipse Facebook’s success.
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LG targets 'pub geeks' to recapture market share
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
LG Mobile is to invest heavily in targeting early technology adopters and “pub geeks” as it looks to recapture customers who had “drifted” away from the brand.
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McCann Erickson to offer youth placements following Platform Live event
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
McCann Erickson has become the first agency to offer placements for young people who took part in a scheme aimed at harnessing a more diverse range of digital talent.
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Microsoft must ensure advertisers feel as satisfied as consumers
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
Microsoft revealed strong annual results today, but the company once again saw its online services division – long the underperforming part of its business – post a significant loss.
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Microsoft's online division sees further losses despite overall company growth
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
Microsoft’s online services division saw further heavy losses over last year to dampen otherwise record annual results for the company.
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MIG moves to further mobile Facebook voting
Tue, 19 Jul 2011
Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) is negotiating with international broadcasters about further mobile voting opportunities using Facebook credits.
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Mobile retail search traffic quadruples
Mon, 18 Jul 2011
The number of consumers searching for retail information on their mobiles quadrupled in the three months to June, according to figures from the British Retail Consortium and Google.
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Mountain Dew launches street art campaign on Facebook
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
Mountain Dew Energy has launched a Facebook campaign centred on street art culture.
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Nokia smartphone sales fall by a third
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
Nokia’s smartphone sales dropped by 32% during the last quarter as its transition to a Windows Phone strategy got off to a slow start.
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O2’s Priority Moments is the latest round in an industry arms race
Mon, 18 Jul 2011
O2’s partnership with Odeon to launch its ‘Priority Moments’ scheme is a thumb in the eye to Orange and its long-standing Orange Wednesdays scheme.
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Online sales up 19% to £31.5bn in Q1
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Online sales have risen 19% year-on-year to £31.5bn in the first quarter of 2011, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales index.
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Orange expands Exposure research to boost mobile ad spend
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
Orange Group has fused its pan-European Exposure Research study with Kantar Media’s TGI database in a bid to encourage mobile advertising spend.
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Orange unveils new digital unit
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
Orange Group has unveiled a new content and design unit, Orange Digital, headed by ex-AOP chairman Dominic Collins.
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Paul Martin
Thu, 28 Jul 2011
Paul Martin
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PPC search gains traction with mobile users
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
Mobile paid clicks and ad impressions are on the rise, despite 79% of brand websites not optimised for mobile, according to a report published today.
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Q&A: Mark Lund, Ad Association Children’s Panel chair
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Yesterday the Advertising Association announced the final members of the Children’s Panel, which was set up to address the points made in the government commissioned Bailey report.
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Rob Heywood
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
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Rorie Hannigan
Tue, 23 Aug 2011
My Favourite Apps
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Sainsbury's debuts transactional mobile site
Mon, 18 Jul 2011
Sainsbury’s has launched a transactional mobile site that lets users reserve items from their phones and then collect in store.
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Sophie Russell
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
Course: MSc (Hons) Business and Marketing Year: Masters University: Manchester Metropolitan
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Strong data growth drives Vodafone revenues
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
Vodafone’s data revenue grew almost 25% last quarter driving its revenues to £11.7bn as smartphone penetration hit record levels.
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Subway launches location-based voucher campaign
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Subway has launched a mobile campaign using MMS vouchers that can be redeemed directly from users’ phones.
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The Guardian launches Zeitgeist app for HP TouchPad
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
The Guardian has launched a mobile version of its Zeitgeist portal for the HP TouchPad, as it looks to serve casual readers with the most popular content on its site.
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Top names join NatMag's cross-media fashion programme
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Revlon, New Look, Elizabeth Arden and Hobbs have partnered with The National Magazine Company’s fourth cross-media event 30 Days of Fashion & Beauty for the first time.
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Trinity Mirror digital marketing director leaves as part of latest restructuring
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Trinity Mirror has undergone its third round of major restructuring within a year, resulting in the departure of its long-standing digital marketing director Paul Hood.
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Turner Broadcasting uses social networks to promote series launch
Tue, 19 Jul 2011
Turner Broadcasting has kicked off a social media campaign to stir up buzz ahead of new children’s comedy series The Amazing World of Gumball.
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Uniqlo appoints iCrossing to handle search
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
Uniqlo has appointed iCrossing to handle its integrated search account as the fashion brand continues to expand its digital marketing activity.
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Universal Music uses social media timeline for Rufus Wainwright release
Mon, 18 Jul 2011
Universal Music is promoting the launch of Rufus Wainwright’s complete works, ‘House of Rufus’, using a timeline of information pulled from the musician’s social media profiles.
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Whisky brand Whyte & Mackay to hold tasting session on Google+
Tue, 19 Jul 2011
Glasgow whisky brand Whyte & Mackay is planning to host an interactive whisky tasting session on Google+, despite Google not allowing brands and businesses onto the social platform yet.
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Why I'm still not convinced about Facebook Shops
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
“Facebook Shops aren’t what social commerce should be about. Instead, they’re invasive, because of their very existence on the social network”
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Wi-Fi ad network boosts headcount ahead of Olympic demand
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
Location-based ad network JiWire is bolstering its UK headcount ahead of anticipated demand during next year’s Olympics hosted in London.
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Zavvi
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
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