David Moth

MTV launches social TV app 'Under The Thumb'

MTV has moved into the social TV market with a new mobile app called MTV Under The Thumb.

The app allows users to watch MTV on-demand content simultaneously with friends and chat about it in the app at the same time.

Users can also share their favourite shows through Facebook and watch the content through their desktop computer by connecting their mobile to a web browser with the mobile then acting as a remote control.

The app, which was developed by Viacom and AKQA, is initially being launched free on iOS and Android in Europe with additional subscription models for premium content.

by David Moth 28 February 2012 13:44pm 0 comments

Q&A: Payvment CEO Christian Taylor on f-commerce

F-commerce is proving to be a tough nut to crack for many big high street retailers.

Major brands like Gap, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom and Banana Republic have shut down their Facebook stores in recent months after the predicted boom in socially driven sales failed to materialise.

Yet thousands of small and medium sized businesses are making a good living from f-commerce through integrated sales platforms such as Payvment.

Payvment currently powers 150,000 stores and adds 1,500 more each week, accounting for 80% of Facebook shopping

So what is the future for f-commerce and where do the opportunities lie?

We spoke to Payvment CEO Christian Taylor to find out why he thinks the big brands failed and how SMEs are getting it right.

by David Moth 28 February 2012 12:39pm 2 comments

DataSift gives access to two years of Twitter data

More than two years of Twitter data has been made available to marketers through social data platform DataSift.

Data doesn’t come much bigger than the estimated 250m tweets that users fire off every day, and Datasift’s cloud-computing platform hosts more than half a petabyte of historical information dating back to January 2010.

by David Moth 28 February 2012 11:07am 0 comments

LinkedIn unveils 'Follow Company' button

LinkedIn has launched a ‘Follow Company’ button that can be installed onto a company's web pages and online marketing materials.

It is essentially the same as the Facebook ‘like’ button, and means the brand’s updates will be immediately fed into the status updates on the user’s LinkedIn homepage.

by David Moth 28 February 2012 09:54am 1 comment

Buddy Media acquires Facebook Ads partner Brighter Option

Social enterprise software company Buddy Media has acquired Brighter Option in a move that extends the company’s services to include paid Facebook ads.

London-based Brighter Option is a Facebook Ads API partner that provides social ad management software.

by David Moth 27 February 2012 13:58pm 0 comments

Adobe unveils new video ad software

Adobe has launched a new web-based video technology platform that allows marketers to create and edit live video clips for use in online advertising almost instantaneously.

The Primetime Highlights software, which was launched today at Mobile World Congress, means that marketers could create an ad featuring video content from a live event that is still ongoing.

It integrates with the Adobe Auditude ad platform, which delivers behaviourally targeted video ads, to create a single workflow for creating and monetising live video clips in real time.

by David Moth 27 February 2012 13:30pm 0 comments

Bing and Yahoo's 'Search Alliance': the experts' view

Yahoo has started the process of merging its UK search marketing accounts and search traffic into Microsoft's adCenter, so all search results and ads will now be delivered by Bing.

The migration, which is due for completion at the end of April, means the ad platform will now account for around 6% of UK search traffic.

by David Moth 27 February 2012 12:48pm 2 comments

New report examines how affiliates can achieve valid incremental sales

A new report by Affiliate Window and buy.at examines how affiliate promotions can complement an advertiser’s online marketing strategy to deliver incremental sales.

Affiliate Window client strategist Owen Hewitson points out that advertisers commonly question the extent to which the sales achieved through the affiliate channel are incremental.

by David Moth 27 February 2012 09:57am 0 comments

Only 10% of top 100 online brands have tablet-optimised website

Only 10% of the brands in IMRG/Hitwise's list of top 100 online retailers has built a website specifically for tablet browsing, according to analysis by mobile marketing agency Somo.