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How Twitter needs to walk a fine line with advertisers

A recent scoop from Tim Bradshaw (@tim) at the Financial Times during #canneslions last week pointed to Twitter taking a bolder stance with advertising on the 5 year old micro blogging site. Quoting from Tim’s article According to three people familiar with the situation, Twitter’s plans under consideration would see “promoted tweets” appear in their [...]

The ALDI effect and how it will benefit mobile advertising

Much has been written in UK newspapers about the “Aldi effect” – as consumers tighten their belts due to the global credit crunch and tougher domestic conditions in the UK and switch to lower cost retailers to save money. Traditional retailers such as Tesco are acutely aware of this phenomenon and are plotting to counter the [...]