Marketing stories
Rising living costs are pushing New Zealand shoppers to compare prices, reviews and product details across AI, social media and search.
Australian organisers could gain a single event system as Leap folds Ticketbooth into its APAC push, adding apps, analytics and marketing tools.
Marketers can now query live campaign data in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, cutting manual reporting time and speeding up decisions.
Brands can now capture social engagement as customer data, as Klaviyo's new tool helps turn followers into consented contacts across channels.
Marketers can now move from creator discovery to paid activation faster as Dentsu UK&I ties Meta data into its planning platform.
Organic installs are now the biggest fraud channel globally, with Asia showing shifts that may mask deeper exposure rather than real improvement.
The recognition underscores how governed customer data is becoming essential as marketers shift toward real-time decisions and AI-driven personalisation.
Missed promotion windows are costing grocery retailers up to EUR €50,000 as campaign production outpaces manual workflows.
A voluntary framework may help brands and agencies avoid disputes over consent, attribution and commercial use as AI spreads through marketing.
The layer is designed to stop AI misreading marketing shifts, after many pilots fail because systems lack business context and governance.
Rising demand from schools and councils has helped the Manchester-based children's learning business post its strongest sales months yet.
The pact is meant to ease fragmentation as marketers across Southeast Asia face common pressures from AI, content, data and skills gaps.
Half of Australians now use generative AI, giving brands less than two years to shape how systems describe them to customers.
Most creators now send affiliate traffic to several shops, weakening brands' control over where sales leads are sent and tracked.
England's Mexico victory sent social media value soaring, with Harry Kane generating GBP £25.8 million in Earned Media Value for brands.
MSP owners could gain more targeted marketing support as a new UK consultancy promises advice shaped by first-hand operating experience.
More than half of UK consumers are likelier to engage when brands react to live events, but internal bottlenecks are slowing marketers down.
Bad contact data is costing large Australian organisations hundreds of thousands of dollars a year through delayed payments, fraud risk and wasted spend.
Rising living costs are pushing 71% of online shoppers to compare more options and cross-check purchases across more channels before buying.
More creators in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Brazil can now earn commissions by tagging Shopee products in Instagram posts and Reels.