Oracle Cloud Infrastructure utilised by Microsoft for Bing conversational search

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Oracle has signed a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to support the explosive growth of AI services.

Microsoft is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI infrastructure, along with Microsoft Azure AI infrastructure, for inferencing of AI models that are being optimised to power Microsoft Bing conversational searches daily. Leveraging the Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft is able to use managed services like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to orchestrate OCI...

14 November 2023 | Organic Search

Digital marketing skills show positive growth but sector demands outpace professional development 

Core digital skills marketers rely on have improved but that the growing demands of new and evolving technologies are contributing to a skills gap across the majority of industries. 

This is according to research published by the training body Target Internet, in association with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).

This year’s report analyses data from more than 10,000 marketing professionals, gathered between 2018 to 2023 and highlights key short and...

24 October 2023 | Advertising

Bye-bye search engines – social media is taking over

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82% of businesses believe that consumers will find brands using social media rather than traditional search engines, according to HubSpot's recent Social Media Report.

With 70% of brands selling products directly via social media, and nearly 80% buying advertising on the big four platforms (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok), it's clear that businesses are seeing the value in reaching consumers on these channels. 

Cemented by the death of telephone customer...

6 April 2023 | Search Marketing

Empathy.co launches Search and Discovery platform

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Empathy.co, a specialist in innovative commerce search, has launched its new Search and Discovery platform.

The new platform provides consumers with a shopping experience that is centred around trust and privacy, moving away from tracking and data storage methods that many companies continue to rely on. Retailers who use the platform will benefit from enhanced tools and insights to design engaging commerce experiences that drive customer loyalty.

With 75% of consumers...

24 May 2022 | Search Marketing

How The Langham Hotels boosted discoverability and gained 3m+ clicks

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Synonymous with luxury, The Langham Hotels and Resorts operate globally, delivering a five-star experience since the opening of its London location in 1865. The Langham Hospitality Group now has an extensive hotel portfolio with more than 4,721 rooms in properties in countries including the UK, Australia, China and the USA.

The problem:

The Langham needed a sophisticated platform that would allow them to seamlessly update business information and monitor and respond to...

4 January 2022 | Case Studies

Kevin the Carrot ranked most Googled Christmas advert character

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Aldi’s Kevin the Carrot is the most Googled Christmas advert character, according to data from Google trends.

The friendly little vegetable has been crowned the best Christmas advert character, after data comparing Google searches over the last five years revealed that Kevin the Carrot is the most Googled Christmas advert character.

The data as compiled based on the top six UK retailers, who release hotly anticipated Christmas adverts every year, including John Lewis,...

4 January 2022 | Advertising

5 things to consider when taking a content-first approach to SEO

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One of the biggest SEO mistakes companies make is within the SEO content strategy itself.

So much time and attention are paid to keywords, page titles, schemas, internal linking, and, of course, the all-important heading tags (think H1s, H2s, and so on) that the actual words on a page become almost an afterthought. This isn’t to say that the technical aspects of search engine optimisation are inconsequential — it’s more that content will always be the catalyst for a...

6 December 2021 | Content Marketing

Consumers are being driven to competitors by outdated site search

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There has been a serious failure by businesses in communicating accurate and up to date information with consumers. 

Particularly during the pandemic, digital services have been vital to connecting consumers with brands online. Recent online research conducted by YouGov on behalf of AI search firm Yext found that 58% of UK adults use site search at least weekly, and that 88% of respondents using site search agree it is an important tool in providing them with accurate and up...

17 June 2021 | E-Commerce

How marketers can ensure they’re not caught by another Australia-style Google crisis

Over the past month, Australia has caused widespread disruption across the digital advertising industry. Following the government’s decision to introduce a new law to solve a long-established row over whether tech giants should pay for news that appears in search or is shared on their platforms, Google threatened to pull out of the country altogether.

Since the threat, Google has cooled down and inked deals with News Corp and Nine Entertainment - the two biggest companies to...

24 February 2021 | Advertising

10 practical ways to grow your local business with digital marketing in 2021

Digital marketing for local business is quite different from how to do marketing for a national or global business.

Yes, we mostly use the same channels - but, in a different fashion.

Local businesses target local people, who are geographically around. They may seem easier to reach without digital marketing; however, it's been long since consumers started searching online before they buy basically anything.

More than 90% of users searched for local businesses...

4 February 2021 | Advertising