In this week’s MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O’Kane cuts to the core of Apple’s ad opportunities, and looks at how the tech giant can best grow its offering. Apple is the bête noire of ad tech. Having spent the last three [...]

Yesterday, (26 January) Google parent Alphabet Inc., (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced financial results for the quarter ended 31 March, 2016. The internet giant boasted an 8.3% increase in fourth-quarter profit, largely driven by the sustained shift to mobile. However, the [...]

ExchangeWire Research’s weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world, with additional insight provided by Rebecca Muir, head of research and analysis, ExchangeWire. In this week’s edition: Marketers have the appreciation of the C-suite; Video’s viewability comes [...]

Commanding objects with the power of speech would have been perceived by many to be reserved for futuristic sci-fi films just a decade ago, but today, voice search is part of our everyday lives. However, are marketers taking advantage of [...]

Yesterday (27 July) Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced financial results for the quarter ended 30 June, 2016. The internet giant posted revenues of USD$21.5bn (£16.3bn), an increase of 21% year-on-year. Google still drives almost all Alphabet's revenue as click volume rises, despite [...]

Yesterday (18 July), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) revealed Q2 2016 performance figures. In this piece we discuss: How Yahoo continues struggle as sale looms; The end of Netflix's explosive growth period; and IBM close to showing [...]

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) yesterday (21 April), announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2016. Google continues to prop up the company's overall performance turning a profit whilst 'Other Bets' operate at a loss. Immediately after the [...]

Yesterday (19 April) Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) announced earnings and revenue just above analyst estimates. Yahoo's struggle continues; there are concerns in all corners of the business: search, content, mobile, native, video, and social. Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, said she is doing [...]

Attribution modelling is a powerful tool for measuring marketing channel effectiveness and ensuring channels further up the purchase funnel are given credit for their contribution. However, argues Paul Dyson (pictured below), founder, Data2Decisions, marketing goes beyond online; and the holy [...]

Performance marketing is given many definitions; and depending on where you sit within the digital ecosystem, can be viewed upon as a terrifyingly hardcore marketing medium, reserved only for finance advertisers working towards the strictest of CPA targets or, conversely, [...]