The virtual events space blew up during the pandemic, with platforms like Hopin being valued at $7.75B when just two years old. A number of other hybrid and virtual event platforms have mushroomed over the last 12 months, with most of them optimised for the lucrative conferences, expos and webinars market.
05.01.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Vadim Toader, cofounder of Proportunity, a mortgage lender that allows homebuyers to purchase a property with only a 5% deposit.
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Kirstie Pickering
05.01.2022
The language we use to describe ourselves and others has the power to attract, and alienate – the latter often unintentionally, and even when such descriptors come from a place of progress.
04.01.2022
Digital media is a tricky phenomenon. It expands the growth of the economy, provides people with new forms of income, and fosters connection, but it can also facilitate bullying, harassment and cause mental health problems.
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Anton Volovyk
31.12.2021
Investors have traditionally been seen as intimidating entities who entrepreneurs must dance for, cap in hand, to raise funds. But times have changed rapidly.
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Jeffrey Faustin
30.12.2021
We are typing anything and everything into search engines and on social media. And with the rise in activism, quest for authenticity, social good, meaning and purpose, branding is getting personal.
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Jonathan AJ Wilson
27.12.2021
Advertisers in the UK will have spent £27.7B on digital ads by the end of 2021. Globally, this number will reach a whopping $455B, which is a 20% increase compared to the year before according to the latest study by eMarketer.
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Jekabs Endzins
21.12.2021
As the importance of cybersecurity has increased, so has our awareness of it. Poor cybersecurity has been identified as the most pressing threat to businesses today.
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Barry O'Donnell
18.12.2021
Klarna, the global retail bank, payments and shopping service, has chosen account-to-account payments business GoCardless to offer bank debit payments to its over 21 million US customers.
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Maddyness UK
17.12.2021
Digital disruption has been a blessing for some in the marketing world and a curse for others. The distinction between the two has been how reactive, and willing marketers have been to evolve with the times.
16.12.2021
Few have understood how the reverberations from COVID-19 have left markets wide open for major disruption by new entrants. By accelerating digitisation and innovation, this turbulent period dramatically lowered barriers to entry for new players while simultaneously stifling innovation spending among industry incumbents.
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Mark Smith
14.12.2021
For our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to George Burgess, cofounder and CEO of Basubu, about capitalising on post-COVID trends and creating a functional website in just a few weeks.
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Maddyness UK
13.12.2021
The emergence of the new COVID variant Omicron has thrown a curveball on Britain’s festive celebrations this year, once again creating a major pause for thought.
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Matt Ephgrave
06.12.2021
Last week, Amazon announced that it will no longer accept UK-issued Visa credit cards from January 2022. The reason came down to the high fees that Visa charges for processing credit card transactions. While the change may come as a shock to many, it brought to light an issue that merchants have long been protesting.
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Siamac Rezaiezadeh
02.12.2021
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