Stories by Rosalyn Page

Spirits Platform wants out-of-work bartenders who have lost their jobs because of the hospitality shutdown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to create simple cocktail video tutorials aimed at home consumption for its ‘Home Five O’Clock-tails’ initiative.

As physical cards and coupons are becoming obsolete, new technology like mobile wallets, are changing the way customers are interacting with brands. City Tattersalls Club, a 120-year-old social club located in Sydney’s CBD, saw the limitations of using traditional vouchers and cards and decided it was time to embrace customer loyalty in the digital realm.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Zoom, Fast, ActiveCampaign, StatSocial, Zendesk and TCS, Big and Near, Uberflip and Informatica.

The Federal Government's recently released official Coronavirus Australia app utilised human-centred design principles to ensure it could satisfy a diverse customer experience, according to Delv, the Canberra-based technology outfit that created it.

The Covid-19 crisis has led to a steady rise in TV and catch-up viewing each week in March, according to the latest figures from ThinkTV.

Brands and agencies are scrambling to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic gripping the world and to develop appropriate communication strategies to connect with customers. The Pew Research Center in the US reports in 2019 over half of adults turned to social media for their news. And in times of national and global emergencies, social media has a more important role than ever.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Demandbase, Trade Desk and TikTok, Mailchimp, Adobe and Snowflake, Radisys, UserTesting, Jebbit and Pegasystems

oOh!media and its publishing business Junkee Media have launched a new campaign promoting kindness, consideration and compassion by sharing positive messages and good news stories from around the globe across its assets.

The Covid-19 pandemic currently playing out around the world has upended the 2020 plans for almost every brand and every marketer. At a time of health and economic stress along with working and family life upheaval, certainties about business and the role of brands are no more. The scale of the crisis is unprecedented in modern time, it doesn’t mean throwing out the rule book entirely, but survival will take more than just a couple of emails to customers.

Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) has launched two new digital audio advertising initiatives to help brands find and engage audiences. The two new options are mood targeting and interactive shakeable audio ads through instream.

Cloud services and virtual collaboration software vendors along with IT infrastructure businesses may get a bounce from the effects of Covid-19, while IT services and consumer electronics brands may be hardest hit, according to the revised GlobalData Tech, Media & Telecom Trends 2020 report.

Universities have huge amounts of data representing untapped potential. But many of them are being held back by manual, slow and error-prone processes.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Banzai, Criteo, LiveRamp, Hootsuite, Zoho, EZ Texting, VDX.tv, and Adobe.

The direct brand economy has gone mainstream, according to the IAB's latest US Brand Disruption 2020 report. And these direct-to-consumer brands are driving a tremendous transformation in the way consumer goods and services are created, marketed and sold.

Out-of-home media player, oOh!media, is warning of earnings disruption in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the world and causing health and economic issues stretching from stock market volatility to event cancellations, travel disruptions and supermarket supplies shortages.