Marketing & Promotion

Meta wins the battle for Black Friday ads, cementing its place as major source of traffic
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta has cemented its place as a major source of ad traffic, winning the battle for…

Retail spend through conversational commerce hits $11.4bn in 2023 as AI bots get personal
Global retail spend via conversational commerce channels will increase to $43bn by 2028, from $11.4bn in 2023, driven by the…

EDITORIAL World Telemedia Marbella 2023 – the show that quite literally rocked
World Telemedia Marbella 2023 rocked – almost literally as it was in the magnificent Hard Rock Hotel and featured members…

Sam Media launches marketing agency at World Telemedia
Sam Media, a leader in mobile content innovation, it to launch Sam Agency, a sister company specialising in marketing at…

Infobip launches Click-to-chat ad analytics for seamless social media ad conversions
Global cloud communications platform Infobip has launched Click-to-chat ad analytics for brands and marketers seeking to harness the power of social media…

Deliveroo launches new app advertising platform
Food delivery platform Deliveroo is moving to allow brands to reach its consumers with the creation of its own advertising…

Facebook maintains its grip in the US with a 78% reach, YouTube second
Facebook might have lost its charm among younger generations. However, it continues to be the most popular social media platform…

Europe’s small businesses have rapidly embraced social media advertising – TikTok up 5000%
Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) have almost tripled their social media ad spending since the start of the pandemic,…

Affiliate World Europe – can you afford not to be in Berlin on 14-15 June?
When it comes to making money online for budding entrepreneurs, the opportunities are endless. Bloggers, freelancers, Youtubers & influencers show…

Digital advertising improvements overdue, expert warns
Digital advertising is facing increased scrutiny as consumers, marketers, and the media begin to tire with its many flaws. Despite…

TELEMEDIA VIEWPOINT The dating game: evolving the dating market
Carl Borowitz, Marketing Manager, Online Dating Kings, outlines how the online dating market is evolving and what dating providers need…

TELEMEDIA VIEWPOINT The dating market: new opportunities for growth
Prelinker’s CEO, Mauricio Botero, discusses how the dating market is growing, but is fiercely competitive. Here is how to make…

TELEMEDIA VIEWPOINT AWE 19 William Hill explains the attraction of affiliate marketing
Eoin Findlay, head of affiliates at William Hill International, explores the risks and rewards of using affiliate marketing as part…

TELEMEDIA VIEWPOINT AWE19 Mobipium outlines emerging markets for affiliate marketing and DCB
Mobipium’s Guillermo De Lorenzi talks us through where he sees the emerging markets to be for affiliate marketing and carrier…

TELEMEDIA VIEW POINT AWE19 Dating Kings on powering dating with affiliate marketing
Carl Borowitz, Marketing Manager, Online Dating Kings, outlines how dating can be powered by affiliate marketing – but it has…

Study reveals app publishers that don’t message users waste 95% of their acquisition spend
New data shows that when marketers don’t message new opt-in app users, they are wasting 95 cents of every dollar…

Ads and app charges drive 63% of adults away from mobile apps
More than 60% of adults avoid mobile apps because of too many adverts, or when asked to pay for the…

Global Spend on Facebook and Instagram mobile app install ads goes up 54%
Spend on mobile app install ads on Facebook and Instagram grew by 54% year-on-year (YoY) in the second quarter of…

OPINION Mobile content in the 21st Century: High on the agenda at World Telemedia 2016
As Google restructures its search algorithms once again to prioritise mobile friendly sites in searches, all businesses must embrace mobile…

EDITOR’S BLOG 17-03-16 Chat apps – where media and messaging collide
The move by the BBC to start to use chat apps – particularly Viber and Whatsapp – to distribute content…

World Telemedia 2017 Basebone – Out To Africa, BASEBONE
Each market poses it’s own challenges, James McNab looks at the challenges and opportunities on the African continent. It’s all…

WTM17 Presentation: GDPR – What Do You Need To Do Today?
Rory Maguire, MD, AIMM explains what GDPR is and why you have to act now – and offers some top…

One in four businesses still unprepared for GDPR
A quarter of marketers (26%) believe their companies are still unprepared for the introduction of the EU General Data Protection…

Click and collect…
Affiliate marketing is key to driving traffic, but can you know where that traffic comes from, how it was obtained…

Facebook – abuse of a dominant position?
Facebook is already in the news for censoring its newsfeed, but the issue goes far wider – right into what you…
60% of mobile dating app users protect their location privacy – bad news for mobile advertising?
SinglesAroundMe (SAM), one of the world’s leading social discovery dating apps has seen strong adoption of its Position-Shift technology, with…

62% of marketers are not using personalisation in their campaigns
Almost two-thirds (62%) of UK marketers say they do not incorporate personalisation into their campaigns. That’s according to the new…

High consumer receptiveness to chatbots highlights major opportunity for Marketers
A majority of consumers are comfortable talking with a chatbot yet only a fraction have engaged with one, according to…

WEBINAR How to up conversions on mobile REGISTER FREE
We all know that mobile is taking over desktop browsing but, when it comes to conversions, mobile is still falling…

Mobile devices drive the most viewership for global AVOD services
Mobile devices attract the most video views for advertising video-on-demand (AVOD) services with global distribution. So finds a report from…

Ami Spencer joins Webgains to head up partner, affiliate and influencer relationships across international markets
International affiliate marketing network, Webgains, has appointed Ami Spencer as Director of International Publisher Relations. Previously Head of Client Services…

Why I’m going to World Telemedia Marbella
As we gear up for World Telemedia Marbella on the 18-20 October, we asked some of the key speakers and…

World Telemedia 2017 Basebone – Out To Africa, BASEBONE
Each market poses it’s own challenges, James McNab looks at the challenges and opportunities on the African continent. It’s all…

WTM17 Presentation: GDPR – What Do You Need To Do Today?
Rory Maguire, MD, AIMM explains what GDPR is and why you have to act now – and offers some top…

One in four businesses still unprepared for GDPR
A quarter of marketers (26%) believe their companies are still unprepared for the introduction of the EU General Data Protection…

What impact will Brexit vote have on digital marketing?
While it is still too early to tell, the marketing sector is reeling from the move by the UK to…

Click and collect…
Affiliate marketing is key to driving traffic, but can you know where that traffic comes from, how it was obtained…

Facebook maintains its grip in the US with a 78% reach, YouTube second
Facebook might have lost its charm among younger generations. However, it continues to be the most popular social media platform…

Conversocial creates world’s first fully integrated social, messaging and chat platform for customer care
Conversocial, a leading social customer engagement platform, announced today its acquisition of HipMob, a Y Combinator Alumnus that developed an…

Social advertising market set for shake up with SmartFocus tool
SmartFocus, a specialist in personalised real-time digital interactions, has launched Smart Social, a tool that combines a single customer view…

Online sales restricted as shoppers shy away from buying through SMS, social and OTT
A survey of UK consumers by Aspect Software finds that, despite liking to buy on mobile through apps, most shoppers won’t…

GRABR launches BLINK: a secure mobile content distribution platform for brands
GRABR has launched BLINK, a proprietary suite of marketing tools that enables brands to securely distribute exclusive original content on…

OPINION Why mobile tickets are the ‘ghostbusters’ businesses should be using
With more and more businesses operating in a paperless environment and cashless payments set to increase with unrivalled speed year…

EDITORIAL World Telemedia Marbella 2023 – the show that quite literally rocked
World Telemedia Marbella 2023 rocked – almost literally as it was in the magnificent Hard Rock Hotel and featured members…

Sam Media launches marketing agency at World Telemedia
Sam Media, a leader in mobile content innovation, it to launch Sam Agency, a sister company specialising in marketing at…

World Telemedia announces new 5 star venue for October ‘21 show’s return
With the much-anticipated return of World Telemedia, Marbella (13-15 Oct) comes news that the organisers have secured a fabulous new…

EDITORIAL World Telemedia Marbella show: a maturing industry uncovered
Another World Telemedia show is done and dusted and, bags unpacked, it is clear that the industry has come on…

WORLD TELEMEDIA MARBELLA Fraud – no longer a dirty word
Fraud used to be such a dirty word – especially in connection to telemedia. However, as this year’s show proved,…