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New Google Adwords system will make mobile advertising easier - and more expensive

New Google Adwords system will make mobile advertising easier – and more expensive

By Staff on February 7, 2013

Google is upgrading its online advertising service Adwords to make it easier for marketers to reach users on different devices. This is said to be the biggest change in Adwords since its inception. The revamped AdWords service, called ‘Enhanced Campaigns (left),’ will allow companies to manage bids for ads running at different locations and times. [...]

Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged ad prices, desktops, ehanced campaigns, facebook, google, mobile ads, smartphones

New Ketchum survey shows that consumers want simpler digital devices

New Ketchum survey shows that consumers want simpler digital devices

By Stephen Foster on May 11, 2012

We’re not entirely convinced about this but a new survey, Digital Living Index, from PR group Ketchum of 6000 consumers in six countries purports to show that we want simpler, not technologically groovier, digital devices like smartphones and tablets. According to Ketchum digital boss Esty Pujadas “simplification is the elephant in the living room” in [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Research | Tagged cultural anthropologist, digital boss, digital living index, Emma Gilding, Esty Pujadas, iPad, ketchumpr group, maimi jungle park, orangutans, simplification, smartphones, survey, tablets, technology

Gratterpalm's Simon Kendrew: why retailers need to make a friend of technology

Gratterpalm’s Simon Kendrew: why retailers need to make a friend of technology

By Staff on April 10, 2012

Simon Kendrew is digital director of Gratterpalm, the Leeds-based UK retail advertising specialist whose clients include Asda, Greggs, Office Depot, Arla Foods and Morphy Richards. Here he explains why there is no such thing as the ‘average shopper’ and why retailers need to embrace technology, like digital in-store screens and smartphone communications, that enable them [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Research | Tagged digital director, digital point of sale, facebook factor, gratterpalm, in-store screens, online technology, personal communications, retail, retail specialist, Simon Kendrew, smartphones, twitter

Google-branded Android tablets go online - is this another win for Apple after BlackBerry retreat?

Google-branded Android tablets go online – is this another win for Apple after BlackBerry retreat?

By Stuart Smith on March 31, 2012

Unmistakable stress signs among competitors appear to herald a tectonic shift in the smartphone sector in favour of Apple. One rival RIM – maker of Blackberry – has retired hurt from the consumer ring. Another, Apple’s principal adversary in the field, is having to carefully rethink its ‘open-door’ strategy. No surprise, perhaps, that the cracks [...]

Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged android, apple, BlackBerry, google, htc, iPad, Jim Balsillie, kindle fire, nexus one, online sales, rim, smartphones, tablets, Thosten Heins

Steve Jobs biography says that Apple TV is slated as the next big thing

Steve Jobs biography says that Apple TV is slated as the next big thing

By Stephen Foster on October 25, 2011

Timing wasn’t always Steve Jobs’ strongest suit (early in his career he picked fights he wasn’t sure to win) but the publication of Walter Isaacson’s biography ‘Steve Jobs’ immediately following the great man’s death means that his successor at the company Tim Cook and all the other Apple-ites know very clearly what’s required of them. [...]

Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged aopple tv, apple, biography, holy grail, interface, iPhone, iphone 4s, itv, smartphones, Steve Jonbs, successor, Tim Cook, tv meets computer, Walter Isaacson

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