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From February 1^st 2024, Google have introduced new authentication requirements for bulk email senders. In this article, we will outline what these requirements are and whether you need to be doing anything about them.

What do you think of when you hear marketers talking about personalisation? I would guess it’s emails with Dear *First Name* in the subject line, and you would be right, but there's so much more to personalisation!

Personalisation has become a foundation of digital marketing and according to research '57% of online shoppers say that they’re happy to provide retailers with personal data as long as it’s used for their own benefit'.

In this blog, we’re going to discuss 5 ways you can use personalisation right now to improve your sales and marketing activities.

Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) is a new experimental feature which uses artificial intelligence to create contextual answers to complex questions. This aims to provide new and better defined answers, and bring new opinions and angles to existing queries.

SGE is still in its tentative early stages, and is being created to enhance the user search experience. When using SGE, users will see search results page similar to the ones they are used to, but organised in a new way to help them get more from a single search. In this blog, we explore what we know so far.

With Influencer Marketing growing as an effective marketing strategy, it’s important to assess whether this could be the right move for your business. According to a HubSpot report 'Influencer marketing yields the highest ROI, along with blogging and social media shopping tools.'

With the potential to transform the way you deliver your marketing, Innovation Visual’s Marketing Manager, Lauren Waterfall recently interviewed Digital Marketing Lead, Vogue Phelps, to gain further insights into this marketing tactic.

The cooler months may see the temperature drop, but things are heating up in the retail and B2C world: consumer demand for goods and services sees a serious skyrocket in popularity, as customers get ready for the gift giving of the festive season. Black Friday and Christmas both offer incredible opportunities for businesses to form new connections, make impressive sales, and watch their profits soar - this really is a time of harvest for those who know how to make the most of the seasonal rush.

AI is a topic at the forefront of any conversation about digital marketing, with discussions exploring excitement about its possibilities, questions about its limitations and, in some cases, concerns about its implications. This is a form of technology that is becoming increasingly prevalent in day-to-day life, including places of work.  AI technologies such as generative AI – where systems can create text, images and videos based on prompts that are entered in the software – will have a massive impact on the way that businesses operate, and 2023 has seen a rapid increase in discussions and advancements within this space. Not only is there a lot of discussion about embracing these powerful technologies but Government is involved to both promote and regulate.