The Republic of Digital

There are more than 80 million contactless cards in circulation in the UK at the moment, and as people with multiple sets of cards exist, that number is likely to increase to a theoretical maximum very soon. Payments amount to more than £1.5 billion monthly. This is no flash in the pan idea – this is moving on. At the same time, we’re seeing the arrival of contactless mobile payment arriving, yet take-up here is somewhat slower. [ 359 more words. ]

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Contactless Defence – Mobile vs Card There are more than 80 million contactless cards in circulation in the UK at the moment, and as people with multiple sets of cards exist, that number is likely to increase to a theoretical maximum …

The case of Revolv presents us with a unique modern day phenomenon that could cause a lot of headaches for marketers looking to promote product around the Internet of Things. Revolv, on the face of it, looked like a brilliant idea. It was one of a series of solutions (yes they are solutions as opposed to products and that’s where the problem lies) that allow you to control aspects of your ‘Smart’ home – lighting, locks, thermostats, IP cameras and so on. [ 530 more words. ]

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The end of Revolv means we need to take a big rethink about IoT – and maybe technology retail products period The case of Revolv presents us with a unique modern day phenomenon that could cause a lot of headaches for marketers looking to promote product around the Internet of Things. Revolv, on the face of…

We asked top SEO practitioner and MSc Digital Marketing student, Dawn Anderson, to tell us about what she learned at the 4th Northern User Experience (NUX) conference on Friday23rd October 2015. On Friday, I had the pleasure of attending the fourth annual NUX conference, held at the Royal Northern College of Music, and jointly organised by the volunteer-run Northern User Experience (NUX) community and Manchester Digital. [ 1549 more words. ]

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NUX4 Write-up & Summary We asked top SEO practitioner and MSc Digital Marketing student, Dawn Anderson, to tell us about what she learned at the 4th Northern User Experience (NUX) conference on Friday23rd October 2015. On…

During this academic year the academic team will look to post examples of the good work done by our students in the first year module, Digital Media & Marketing Platforms. The students will be working each week on a variety of tasks and partially out of pride, we want to share with the wider world the insight from these intelligent young minds. [ 353 more words. ]

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News from the DMMP During this academic year the academic team will look to post examples of the good work done by our students in the first year module, Digital Media & Marketing Platforms. The students wi…

Event: E-Marketing SIG Roadshow 2015 http://wp.me/p5IuPA-cY

Event: E-Marketing SIG Roadshow 2015 The Roadshow follows on from the e-Marketing SIG workshop co-hosted with the Institute of Data and Digital Marketing (IDM) in January 2014 at Google London, entitled ‘Aligning research agenda with practice in digital marketing’. Social media strategy was identified as the top research priority, on the agenda of both academics and practitioners. This spring, a series of workshops will bring together researchers from UK’s top business schools to further explore methodologies, framework and insights related to social media research. [ 106 more words. ]

Where Apple and HBO are going with their thinking http://republicofdigital.co.uk/apple-hbo-and-the-disruption-of-distributors/

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2015 - Deloitte serve up lots of food for thought

#TMTPredictions 2015 - Deloitte serve up lots of food for thought certainly lived up to expectations yesterday - what with the the quality of the keynote and the 'tech toys' to play with afterwards... Here is a very quick summary of my 5 key takeaways: Smartphone Market: The UK smartphone market will be 1 billion unit upgrades in 2015 - generating sales worth around £200bn. Smartphone device sales dwarf those of tablets, laptops etc. [ 327 more words. ]

2014 in review for Republic of Digital http://wp.me/p3ZSsx-5t

2014 in review for Republic of Digital The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,900 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 48 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the complete report.

Roll up, roll up! Every public tweet since 2006 – all yours to search http://wp.me/p3ZSsx-p

Roll up, roll up! Every public tweet since 2006 - all yours to search Yesterday, Twitter announced they would make all public tweets since 2006 available to search. That is 500,000,000,000 tweets - growing at the rate of several billion tweets a week. The new index is 100 times larger than previous...mind-boggling figures! Twitter has committed major investment and development time to improve their index. They are now making genuine headway on their long term vision "...to let people search through every Tweet ever published." [ 149 more words. ]

Event – Digital will be dead within 3 years http://wp.me/p3ZSsx-4E

Event - Digital will be dead within 3 years Tuesday 25th November at 18:00 We're not frightened of controversy here, but Rob Smith, MD of Blueleaf, is going to tell us 'Digital' is so synonymous with everyday life now that the very term is becoming meaningless. With the proliferation of sensors, 'always-on' smart phones, smart watches, NFC, BLE and every other technology going – there’s no doubt we live in a ever greater connected world. [ 202 more words. ]

Mind the gap: Digital Skills http://wp.me/p3ZSsx-30

Mind the gap: Digital Skills Digital changes so quickly it’s almost mesmerising. Yes that sounds clichéd but it’s very true. So how can you ensure you have the skills to add value to an organisation? The CIM recently claimed that only 2% of businesses have the requisite skills in social media. You might then question what the figure is for digital in its entirety! As we increasingly move to the… [ 1229 more words. ]

Brand Image, Product Packaging and Edgy Marketing: Almost Famous http://wp.me/p3ZSsx-4u

Brand Image, Product Packaging and Edgy Marketing: Almost Famous Almost Famous, a restaurant that thrives on a reputation for a) burgers and b) edgy image, found itself the centre of attention for the way it had decorated its women’s toilets – you can read about that in this article by Helen Graves. Over a period of… [ 504 more words. ]