Global Marketing News – 24th June 2015 Baidu’s iQiyi to acquire 1,000 Hollywood titles Baidu is to head to Hollywood, thanks to its video streaming subsidiary, iQiyi. The service hit five million subscribers in June, an increase of 765% from … Read More
Global Marketing News – 18th June 2015 France threatens Google with sanctions The data privacy watchdog in France, the CNIL, has ordered Google to remove links from all of its domains under the “EU right to be forgotten” law. The … Read More
Global Marketing News – 12th June 2015 Yahoo Japan enters partnership with Alibaba Yahoo Japan has announced that it will be entering into a partnership with the Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba later this summer. The deal will make it cheaper … Read More
Global Marketing News – 8th June 2015 Yandex releases algorithm data The Russian search engine Yandex has released data showing how its latest algorithm change has been affecting websites’ rankings in the search results pages. Their Minusinsk algorithm, which was … Read More
Global Marketing News – 2nd June 2015 75% of Google’s ad revenue coming from Apple devices Three quarters of Google’s mobile ad revenue is coming through Apple devices, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs. Mobile ads generated around 12 … Read More
Global marketing news – 27 May 2015 Russia to block Google, Facebook and Twitter Russian authorities have threatened to fine and block Google, Facebook and Twitter for allegedly breaking the Russian “blogging law”. The law in question says that bloggers … Read More
Global Marketing News – 20th May 2015 Russia’s biggest social network VK has beaten television in battle for audience share A report by Russian media research team, TNS, shows that VK had 13.2 million users in March this year. This … Read More
Global Marketing News – 14th May Alibaba Sees Sales Increase By 40% Alibaba has reported a 40% growth in sales for the last quarter. Chinese consumers have purchased 600 billion Yuan worth of products through the Chinese e-commerce site in … Read More
Global Marketing News – 13th May India’s Prime Minister has joined Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo Narendra Modi recently joined the growing list of famous people who are signing up to site, in an attempt to connect with a Chinese … Read More
Global Marketing News – 11th May McDonalds is to Change its international Structure The company’s new chief executive, Steve Easterbrook, plans to reorganise the fast-food chain in an attempt to turn it into what he refers to as a ‘modern, … Read More
Global marketing news – 5 May 2015 Sohu.com is catching up with Baidu in China Sohu.com could be a threat to Baidu, having reported better than expected financial results with a revenue increase of 25%. The Chinese internet company, based … Read More
Global Marketing News – 28th April Facebook Suffers Slowdown in Global Growth Shares in Facebook fell by 2% last week as it reported its slowest quarterly revenue gain in two years. Meanwhile, research and development spending increased as more money … Read More
22 April 2015 – Global Marketing News Google’s “Mobilegeddon” update is finally launched globally Google has updated it search algorithm to punish websites that are not optimised for mobiles. The so-called “Mobilegeddon” update will push down websites in the search … Read More
16 April 2015 – Global Marketing News Japanese court orders removal of negative reviews from Google Maps A court in Japan has ordered Google to remove 2 negative reviews that were written on Google Maps about a Japanese medical practice. … Read More
10 April 2015 – Global Marketing News Turkish internet users evade ban on Twitter and YouTube Twitter and YouTube were both temporarily banned in Turkey earlier this week, despite a court ruling having said such blanket bans are unconstitutional. Turkish … Read More
