[SMK] AI & Digital Marketing Capability Transformation
Shazam, the music discovery app that can recognise a song and name it for you, has been dipping its toes into the marketing pool for some time. Now it’s diving in head first with the launch of Shazam for Brands. With open arms Up until now, Shazam has mainly worked with advertisers to try increase […]
If you’re an iOS Pinterest user, you’ll have noticed some big changes with the latest app update. The popular visual discovery tool as given its iOS a major overhaul. Here’s what they’ve changed. Feels Cleaner Pinterest says that their latest app is their ‘fastest and cleanest app yet.’ The changes they’ve introduced are aimed at
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Many fashionistas will be familiar with ShopStyle as a shopping search engine. However, ShopStyle also has its fingers in the social monetisation pie via their offshoot, ShopStyle Collective. And now, ShopStyle Collective is launching a new widget to help influencers rake in revenue from the images they post to Instagram. All about the $$$ ShopStyle
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LinkedIn has announced the roll-out of a new app for university graduates about to enter the job market: LinkedIn Students. A new direction LinkedIn is making a priority of attracting younger users to their platform and Students represents a bold step in that direction. Befitting its name, Students has a variety of tools that LinkedIn
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Will 2016 be the year we remember as the year that 360 immersive VR video goes mainstream? With the unveiling of Live 360, YouTube is certainly doing everything they can to make it happen. Stealing a march on Facebook Over the past year, we’ve heard a lot about Facebook’s big plans for VR/360 video. Something
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Australia Day, 2010: Most people had never heard of a tablet computer. A day later, Apple launched their first generation iPad. Six years on, tablets are all-but ubiquitous, and the market is still going strong. Uptake By 2012, 24% of Aussies owned and used a tablet—making it equal #1 for tablet uptake with Spain. At
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Designed for small to medium sized online retailers, Reelevant is a cloud-based service that allows users to send emails capable of adapting their content in real time based on user data. It’s alive! Launched in 2016, the French startup Reelevant gives users access to an email editor, complete with templates and drag & drop images
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RebelMouse, a startup aimed at boosting your content’s organic reach on social media, has launched Discovery—a new tool that connects publishers with like-minded social media accounts. CRM meets CMS RebelMouse’s Discovery tool is a customer relationship management platform (CRM) that can be easily integrated into many different content management systems (CMSs). Snapping right in with
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Twitter’s ‘best-of’ curated space, Moments, just got a whole lot more musical. Musical Moments Since 2014, SoundCloud’s audio cards have made it possible for people to share and stream songs with a single click directly from their Twitter timeline. Until now, however, SoundCloud audio cards have been absent from Moments. For curators, the expansion of
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If you’ve been hearing a lot about bots lately, there’s good reason. A surge in popularity has some calling them “the new apps”. And, just like apps, they’ve now got their own store: Botlist. Rise of the Bots In the wake of Microsoft’s Tay chatbot debacle, chances are that even your mum has now heard
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