​Facebook is expecting a huge swing in businesses using Messenger to target and personalise to consumers in the weeks leading up to Christmas this year, as consumers change how they expect to be communicated with.

Bankwest Stadium has launched a new customer incentives and rewards program, Bankwest Stadium Score, a platform it says will provide insights and improve the experience of sports fans at the stadium.

The proposition for convenience stores is pretty straightforward. But how does that translate in a world where convenience is now more often associated with digital experiences rather than those in the real world?

​To stay relevant in a changing retail space, UK brand Superdry had to take a serious look at its customer experience (CX).

Australian payments company, Afterpay, is one of the relatively few tech success stories this country has produced. And it’s through a consistently stable yet increasingly diverse approach to mobile and Web capability that the business is capitalising on growing international consumer demand, its chief product officer says.

It’s taken just a decade for mobile advertising to rise from relative obscurity to represent a billion dollars of ad expenditure in Australia (according to the IAB), and account for 62 per cent of general digital display spending.

The decision to give employees control of marketing its iconic 2018 Christmas campaign on social media has not only driven stronger consumer take-up of in-store services for John Lewis & Partners, it’s also improved employee engagement.

A consistently personalised multi-channel approach to customer messaging globally has seen Movember not only chalk up three-fold improvement in engagement, but also lift email revenue for its charitable cause.

Tourism Australia and mobile payment platform, Alipay, have joined forces on a new pilot program aimed at promoting several of Sydney’s iconic destinations and hotspots to Chinese tourists.

Medibank recently underwent a digital experience transformation, a move that's resulted in the My Medibank app becoming the highest-rated private health insurance app in the Apple Store in June 2017 and led to a raft of other benefits.

CMO takes a look at 10 real-life examples of brands utilising new technologies such as augmented reality, NFC, facial recognition, 3D scanning and more to breathe new life into their campaigns

Domino’s has introduced what it claims is the world’s first augmented reality (AR) pizza ordering offering.

It wasn’t long after the iPhone’s launch that every brand decided it needed an app. But how many of those apps have made a meaningful difference in the lives of consumers – or for the brands that created them?

Subscription-based beauty products player, bellabox, has inked a new mobile app partnership aimed at rewarding women for their loyalty to mobile gaming.

Brands must transform the way they plan their communications across media and up the ante on mobile, as a recent report shows media consumption on mobile devices is set to rapidly rise by 2020.

​Partnering for the first-time to celebrate global free cone day, Ben & Jerry’s, Shazam, and POSmusic delivered an integrated in-store activation recently, which combined curated playlists, brand audio messaging, and a specially created Ben & Jerry’s augmented reality experience.

​Boost Juice is claiming to be the first retailer to give Bitcoin away to customers after launching a new four-week campaign in Australia.

Australian marketers must incorporate augmented reality (AR) and ensure mobile devices are key to strategy if they are to remain relevant in an immersive, machine driven and smartphone-dominated world.

Treasury Wine Estates is rolling out an augmented (AR) reality app portfolio for at least four of its wines globally after a US pilot across its 19 Crimes brand became one of its most successful marketing activations.

Brands will increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) strategies to prioritise personalisation at scale, while ‘fake news’ will continue to influence social strategies as ‘trust declines, while peer influence will rise,” according to Hootsuite’s third annual Social Trends Report.

Apps don’t come cheap and it’s a competitive market, so marketers need to be asking some key questions before splashing out and making the investment, the regional director of app analytics company App Annie, Jaede Tan, says.