20 May 2013
AKQA was awarded Digital Agency of the Year, Topshop won Digital Brand of the Year, and SCA's 'Bodyform: The Truth' viral scooped the Grand Prix at this year's Rev Awards.
Ebay marketing executive Alexander von Schirmeister has attributed the company's success to chief executive John Donahoe's decision to allow its mobile commerce unit "permission to step on other people's toes".
LinkedIn shares dropped as low as $177 (£114) yesterday in after-hours trading, a fall of 12%, after the professional social networking service forecast significantly weaker revenues for the second quarter than Wall Street expected.
Facebook has posted a 38% year-on-year revenue rise to £938m in the first quarter of the year on the back of mobile advertising growth, but questions remain how Facebook will increase monetisation as it reaches saturation point.
To raised eyebrows and incredulity from some, Thorsten Heins, CEO of struggling BlackBerry, predicted the death of tablet computers within five years.
Tesco hopes to create a "digital campus" with the opening of a number of offices in North London, as it seeks to benefit from the growing number of tech start-ups in the capital.
Facebook is rolling out a new mobile layout for its "pages" feature that aims to offer brands a more "streamlined and action-orientated" interface.
EE has so far signed up 318,000 customers to its 4G offering, after launching the network five months ago with an extravagant £100m marketing campaign.
Agency executives have attributed the 12.5 per cent rise in digital advertising in 2012 to the growth of smartphone use and video platforms, but have called for brands to increase their spend on mobile further to keep up with usage.
IAB's digital advertising figures for 2012 published today highlight the ongoing momentum behind mobile as a media platform, fuelled by the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, and an increasing number of clients ready to experiment with new ad formats.