Categorised as: Digital Marketing & News
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Advertising giant IPG invests in mobile rewards player Kiip News
16.01.2013 Mobile rewards platform Kiip has entered into a strategic partnership with advertising giant IPG’s Media Lab group. The deal will see major brands join the Kiip platform, as... -
Consumers don’t like brands getting their details wrong, but unwilling to share them - survey News
16.01.2013 When it comes to email marketing, don’t bombard consumers with messages, don’t send unsolicited messages, be sure to spell consumers’ names correctly and identify them by the... -
Simply Zesty and Tibus merge to create UK and Ireland digital media powerhouse News
07.01.2013 UTV Media plc revealed this morning that it is merging its web design agency Tibus with digital and social branding agency Simply Zesty, which it acquired last year for about... -
Facebook: Best days to post – segmented by industry (infographic) News
03.01.2013 When it comes to posting content on Facebook Pages for maximum reach and audience interaction, the timing varies for each industry, reveals a new infographic that lists the best... -
SuperValu creates mobile shopping apps for iOS and Android smartphones News
02.01.2013 SuperValu has revealed new mobile shopping apps that let shoppers buy their groceries from the comfort of their homes or by zapping barcodes with their smartphones and paying...Categories: Wireless Communications, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Apps -
Hidden jobs opportunity: no recession online, but can firms sell digitally? News
02.01.2013 At the end of December, The Digital Hub in Dublin opined that Ireland is coming of age digitally. I agree with this to an extent – Irish consumers are coming of age digitally....Tags: Digital Hub, Apple, Intel, Google, Facebook, E-commerce, Digital Economy, Graduates, Job Creation -
New entrants to Irish broadband market will drive down prices, says ComReg News
02.01.2013 New entrants to Ireland’s broadband market – which is hurtling in the direction of superfast broadband and 4G services – will increase downward pressure on prices and upward... -
OPINION: You lead data, it doesn’t lead you News
02.01.2013 The wealth of analytical data which digital marketers have access to empowers us to make really good communication decisions. However, we must never slavishly respond to the...Categories: Web, Social Media, Online Business, Internet, Digital Marketing, Data Management, Business Intelligence -
Windows Phone will be the fastest growing mobile OS over next five years News
20.12.2012 While Microsoft’s Windows Phone will be the fastest growing operating system in terms of shipments in the next five years, it won’t get anywhere near Apple’s share of the...Categories: Consumer Tech, Digital Marketing, Hardware, Operating Systems, Phones, Wireless Communications -
Twitter introduces much anticipated archive function News
20.12.2012 Social media giant Twitter has introduced a much anticipated (and awaited) archive function that lets its 200m active users download all of their tweets – going back to the start!Categories: Consumer Tech, Digital Business, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Internet, Mobile, Mobility, Multimedia, Security, Social MediaTags: Twitter, Social Media, -
Analysys Mason’s 2013 telecoms forecast - LTE, social SMS and smartphones News
19.12.2012 The 4G networks based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) will become a commercial reality in 2013 but its economic impact in the first 12 months will be limited. That’s one of the... -
Data Commissioner tells 80 Irish websites to explain approach to EU cookies law News
19.12.2012 Some 80 websites in Ireland – including major Government departments, like the Department of Health and the Department of Finance – have been written to by the Data Protection...Categories: Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Web -
Instagram to ‘eliminate the confusion’ – will update language in terms of use News
19.12.2012 Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has responded to the outcry to its new terms of use, promising to eliminate the confusion. “We’ve heard loud and clear that many users are confused...Categories: Web, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Marketing, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Apps -
83pc of teens own a smartphone (infographic) News
18.12.2012 Mobile phone ownership in Ireland is getting younger and most of today’s teenagers (15-18), those in their early 20s (19 to 24) and late 20s (25-29) got their first mobile...Categories: Wireless Communications, Web, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Marketing, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Development, Design, Apps -
Did Facebook buy Instagram just to destroy it? News
18.12.2012 The Facebook-esque changes to the terms of use of photo-sharing app Instagram beg the question: is the photo-sharing app firm serious? It begs one more question, is Instagram... -
Four Irishmen make the Forbes ‘30 under 30’ lists News
17.12.2012 Four young Irishmen involved in the worlds of software, social entrepreneurship and marketing have been listed in the influential Forbes '30 under 30' lists of people to watch... -
Conker wins Lift Off competition at NDRC News
13.12.2012 Conker, a new digital venture that has developed a platform to help freemium game developers track and analyse the behaviour of players, has won the Lift Off competition at the...Categories: Software, Social Media, Networking, Investments, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Apps -
Wayra accelerator seeks applications from digital start-ups News
13.12.2012 Telefónica’s global start-up accelerator Wayra, which opened its Dublin hub earlier this year, is now accepting applications from start-ups to enter its Dublin academy.Categories: Social Media, R&D, Networking, Media, Marketing, Management, Investments, Internet, Funding, Education, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Dublin Web Summit and F.ounders creators to generate 30 new jobs News
13.12.2012 From just 200 people in a lecture hall in Trinity College Dublin in 2010 to 4,200 people at Dublin’s RDS in 2012, the Dublin Web Summit and its sister event F.ounders have been... -
The Facebook economy: ‘SMBs will create a Facebook page before they’ll build a website’ News
13.12.2012 Facebook is ramping up its focus on small and medium-sized businesses and revealed that more than 300,000 business-owned pages have promoted more than 2.5m posts since June....