Insights - CCgroup

Home » Insights

Search...

Clear

Blog Four simple steps to improve your PR writing skills It’s no surprise that, in PR, communication is key. From thought leadership articles to award entries, speaker submissions to press...
Blog Tech me out: A beginners guide to APIs Welcome to our blog series, 'Tech Me Out', aimed at demystifying and explaining some of the technologies and technical terms...
Blog BUZZWORD BUSTING PART 1: CLOUD COMPUTING As PR people, we love buzzwords. In blogs, opinion articles, infographics and pitches, we use......
Tech Talks Fintech: challengers, incumbents and the march of Open Banking Kit explores challengers, incumbents and the march of Open Banking in this fintech talk....
Blog REPORT SCHEDULES ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR PROACTIVE ANALYST RELATIONS When putting together a new year’s AR plan, it’s vital to start with a strategy and not a calendar. Starting...
Insight Reports How to influence retail technology buyers? A study into what influences technology purchasing decisions in retail organisations....
Blog MWC Barcelona 2019 – New name, familiar feel (bar the politics) Less than three working days to go… Sorry… In case you missed it, you might have noticed that I have...
Blog Huawei, you ok hun? Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the last few months, you’ll know that Chinese vendor, Huawei, has landed itself...
Blog Causing a social media Fyre Last week, I watched the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix. For those of you that don’t know about the documentary,...
Insight Reports How telcos and OTTs are disrupting the traditional broadcast industry This paper discusses the shift toward video and TV shows being distributed and accessed via the internet, what threat this...
Tech Talks Cloud Technologies Bill talks about the tech landscape, being an influencer in the cloud space and how to help your clients become...
Blog How to influence retail technology buyers? With about 14 shops closing every day due to the toughest UK high street trading climate in five years, it’s...
Insight Reports How do enterprises buy technology? The aim of the study was to identify how the modern technology procurement process works, who is involved and how...
Blog A trip down MWC memory lane (Part I) Mobile World Congress 2019 will mark my 14th consecutive show. CCgroup has been involved in all of them – apparently...
Blog A trip down MWC memory lane (Part III) My third post in a five-part trip down Mobile World Congress memory lane, 14 shows from 2005 through to my...
Tech Talks The Future of Content Jenny talks about the content landscape, and the role of FAANG, as well as looking at streaming and robots....
Blog A trip down MWC memory lane (Part II) 2019 marks my 15th consecutive MWC show. I am recounting them all through a five-part blog series this week. Yesterday...
Blog A trip down MWC memory lane (Part IV) In my fourth blog looking back over my career at Mobile World Congress I revisit the 2014, 2015 and 2016...
Blog A trip down MWC memory lane (Part V) The final blog in my five-part series looking back on Mobile World Congress. Today I remember the last two years...
Insight Reports How to influence finfech buyers We interviewed senior decision makers responsible for large global financial institutions regarding what influences their selection of technology vendor at...
Blog The top 5 retail technology trends to watch for in 2019 Every year in December and January, the news sections of tech publications are flooded with various articles about trends and...
Blog 10 questions to ask before you hire an analyst I was recently asked by a client to advise them on whether or not they should take out a subscription...
Tech Talks Industrial IoT Martin discusses the state of the business IoT market and developments we will see in the future through AI, cloud...
Tech Talks The life of an industry analyst Pierce talks about the key trends he for sees for 2019, and how he pieces together his own research agenda for...
Blog Is there a place for political activism in B2B marketing? Increasingly, we are living in a world of politicisation and polarisation. From Brexit in the UK, to the US-China Trade...
Blog The 10 Dos & Don’ts of B2B fintech PR In my blog yesterday I covered what makes B2B fintech PR different to other sectors as part of the workshop...
Insight Reports How to Sell to Telcos in the Age of Digital Transformation This paper provides a fresh perspective on operator digital transformation and highlights the havoc being wreaked within operators, and the...
Blog What makes B2B fintech PR different to other sectors? At the beginning of December, I spent two days at FinTech Connect at the Excel in London – the biggest...
Blog How do you amplify the value of analyst relations within your organisation? Industry analysts are proving themselves to be highly influential in B2B purchasing decisions across telecoms, enterprise, financial services and......
Tech Talks From Card to Payments Alex looks at the future of payments and commerce in this tech talk....
Blog How did Huawei become one of the UK’s biggest smartphone names? For the launch of its latest Mate 20 Pro smartphone, Chinese telecoms equipment vendor Huawei decided not to hold the...
Blog To compete at MWC Barcelona 19 you need to plan analyst engagements early! With over 100,000 visitors Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2019 (MWCB 19) isn’t just the year’s biggest event for mobility and...
Tech Talks MediaTech – What’s it all about? This talk will teach you all you need to know about the world of broadcast and media technology; where it...
Blog A 4G network running on 1G customer service Do you know how difficult it is to get a device replacement when yours gets lost or damaged? Well, it’s...
Blog Is the battle for viewers all down to The Cry for content? There was a lot of speculation as to how Netflix was going to fare when it announced its Q3 earnings...
Insight Reports Unaware, unprepared and paralysed: Retailer readiness for PSD2 PSD2 is one of the most controversial and talked about pieces of legislation in the history of payments and banking....
Blog Going the extra mile… Three weeks ago, I ran my third marathon. My first was London in 2016, followed by Paris last year. After...
Tech Talks CCgroup Cloud Computing Florie takes us through a brief history of cloud computing and the differences between public cloud, hybrid cloud and private...
Blog What did PayExpo 2018 have to say about the future of payments? Earlier last week I went to PayExpo, the UK’s largest payments event which attracts the entire ecosystem – issuers, acquirers,...
Insight Reports New research report: How vendors can benefit from the impact of IP on the broadcast industry IP has become a viable content distribution platform for the broadcast industry, helping broadcasters respond to the demands of consumers....
Blog What will the autumn budget bring for the UK’s public services? Rumours abound for the next few weeks about the pressure Philip Hammond is under as he works on this month’s...
Tech Talks The History of Telecoms Alan walk us through the history of Telecoms from the very first telegraph systems, to transatlantic cables, right up to...
Blog Putting the AI in RAI: the rise of artificial intelligence at IBC 2018 Last month I was lucky enough to jet off with thousands of other people to the RAI in Amsterdam for...
Blog ASOS says bye bye to A-list programme Excuse me while I shift my attention to another one of my loves: clothes - and most precisely, online retailer,...
Tech Talks All Things FinTech From willow sticks to the evolution of the blockchain; this talk will take you through the earliest signs of fintech...
Blog Mobile World Congress Americas: the learning curve continues Mobile World Congress Americas took place last week. It is the second time the CTIA and GSMA have collaborated to...
Blog (Yet) another job for tech PRs Digital transformation (for want of a better, less hackneyed phrase) needs wide, non-IT, internal support. And while the senior tech...