Hello and welcome to this week’s FWD.
In a week dominated by Black Friday and online retail sales, we take a look at all that is great in the world of digital and technology.
- Black Friday helped lift sales on the British high street by 1% in November. Whilst the value of the day itself jumped 16.5% year on year
- The winners and losers of Black Friday 2019
- Last night Amazon broadcast their first of 20 live Premier League games. Find out what matches are being aired and how you can watch them here
- New year, new calendar? Grab your Twitter 2020 Marketing Calendar today
- AR/VR spending will soar 79% to $18.8B next year, study predicts
- UK shoppers are 79% more likely to discover new products on social media than they were just two years ago
- 54% of millennial’s ditch gravy so their Christmas dinner looks good for Instagram
- The rise of the virtual influencers on Instagram
- Meet Sophia, one of the most intelligent and humanistic robots in the world. Watch as she’s interviewed live on This Morning.
- Twitter to test a feature that suggests who you should unfollow?
- LUMA release their annual ‘State of Digital Marketing’ report for 2019
- Need to brush up on your SEO skills? Here’s a series of SEO best practice guides for your use