With autumn firmly on its way, it has been back to business for several brands, with a flurry of news from Victoria Beckham, Argos and Virgin Trains – all announcing innovations linked to their customer experience (CX) and engagement. As part of the 10-year anniversary campaign for the Victoria Beckham brand, VB shared a video […]
Scrolling through LinkedIn this week, I stopped for a few minutes and sat and watched a video to the end (something I very rarely do these days), and smiled. What was this completely engaging piece of content? Something particularly relevant to me, my interests or my job? No… it was Yorkshire Tea’s 5,000 biscuit domino […]
So, the writing is on the wall for us humans and robots will soon be replacing us. This is according to the numerous reports and studies which are all predicting an impending dystopian future. According to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers on automation in the workplace, as many as 30% of jobs in the UK, 38% […]
With recent reports in the press from recruiters highlighting low candidate availability and staff shortages in certain industries, workplaces are increasingly having to invest in alternative methods to recruit and retain their workforce. Research has shown that as businesses continue to embrace the digital age, traditional businesses must transform or else risk vanishing into an […]
Technology is transforming the way we make payments. Just ten years ago, 22 million transactions were made in cash each day, with card payments just a fraction of that. However according to a report out today by UK Finance, cash is no longer the most popular form of payment in the UK. Last year consumers […]
Coming out the other side of the Easter break has been a busy time in the CubanEight office, culminating this week with big news for one of our clients, Chargifi, and kicking off a campaign with our newest client GameOn Technology. Chargifi is a British tech company, who is leading the march in the wireless […]
We all know that the face of publishing is changing. Circulation figures for the last decade have shown the demise of hardcopy papers and magazines, and it seems almost every month sees the closure of another magazine (so long to the NME, mainstay of my youth). Online journalism was heralded as the future of publishing, […]
With seemingly every Tom, Dick and Harry (or should that be Harriet?) jumping on the media bandwagon for this year’s International Women’s Day, there were some particularly interesting reads in the FT’s Women in Technology supplement on ways to tackle the gender gap in the technology sector. After-school coding clubs, cyber security competitions and video […]
As well as being one of the major industry events across the globe, Mobile World Congress (MWC) is a key event for many of our clients. The trends that emerge from the event frequently dictate how innovation is going to manifest over the rest of the year and beyond. As we look back on the […]
With GDPR set to have a major impact on communications over the coming months, it’s difficult not to agree with Rana Foroohar’s description of data as “the new oil” of 2018, “the most valuable commodity of the digital age”. Her thoughts on changing regulations in the tech sector, the impact of millennials dominating our workplaces […]
Anyone familiar with Absolutely Fabulous will be aware of the running joke that many public relations events are held in a bar and full of fluff – but last night’s PUBlic Relations Oxford event, which I attended, was a great example of how a set of fantastic guest speakers and a willing exchange of […]
Halfway through 2017, London’s FinTech Week, marked a seminal point in what has been a buoyant year for the industry. The FinTech industry is one of the UK’s fastest growing sectors, already adding more than £6.6 billion to the national economy and attracting more than £500 million of investment. The event is designed as a […]