[SMK] AI & Digital Marketing Capability Transformation
Beam me up, Google. Whilst it's not quite ready to handle galactic transportation, Google Home can now purchase items at your command. Buy in Using Google Assistant (a feature of Google Home), you're now able to issue voice commands to buy things from retailers signed up with Google Express. These include Costco, Bed Bath and […]
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Using innovative mobile green screen technology, Blin.gy puts users into their favourite music videos. Making sweet music (videos) If the popularity of musical.ly is anything to go by (130 million users, 12 million videos uploaded daily), young mobile users love making music videos. A new release from the creators of Chosen (an app which lets
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At the recent Facebook F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Facebook's 10 year plan which clearly laid out how Facebook's own properties and acquisitions are going to be steered in the coming months and years. Instead of competing with each other as they are today, Facebooks' Family of Apps will each be fulfilling their own unique
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Less than a year after a redesign of Snapchat Discover propelled it into a new realm, a new focus on Shows looks set to take the platform towards the premium video content market. Showing up the competition Discover is where professional publishing houses curate regularly released content in magazine style formats. As the video-based component
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LinkedIn has announced a veritable goodie-bag of updates for data-inclined Premium members. Dive deep Both subscription options, Premium Career and Premium Business, get meaty new metrics. Premium Career members now have access to personalised insights from LinkedIn Jobs. This includes showing your connections at a hiring company, the team you might be working with, which
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Google has released two new communication tools for business users: Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat. Chatbots Hangouts Meet lets you video conference with colleagues around the globe. Meet is integrated with G Suite, so participants can join the call directly from a Calendar or Gmail invite. While G Suite Enterprise customers get a dedicated dial-in
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How time flies on Facebook. It's already been a year since 360 video launched on the platform. To celebrate the milestone Facebook has released a blog post showing how brands can get more out of the emerging medium. Look around Facebook says interactive and exploratory content works best on 360. For example, diving on the
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Continuing its effort to make live streaming mainstream, YouTube announced that users with over 10,000 subscribers can now go live from mobile devices. Stay tuned YouTube has slowly been testing the waters of their live services since last with the rollout of Super Chat, which allowed creators to monetise user comments and questions. Now, live
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Snapchat’s first run of serial content is to be an eight-party weekly series reuniting past partners for the first time since the split. Old flames reunite The collaborative effort between Snapchat and the A+E Network will be following the first-time encounters between past loves as they finally discuss what lead to their demise and whether
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In the time-honoured tradition of the school playground, Twitter is testing a virtual time out corner for naughty users. #Badboys Twitter has begun suspending users suspected of potentially abusive behaviour for 12 hours. During the tweeting time out, only followers can view the rogue user's posts and activity. After half a day the ban is
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