Give-aways are still the best advertising opportunity for companies and more popular than ever. Those who invest in them get a lot of attention back from satisfied customers. The most important trends for 2020 in this advertising segment are already emerging. In FLYERALARM's new give-away catalogue, which is now available and surprises with lots of useful background information on products, history or compliance, they have left a clear mark.

Our latest report suggest social media platforms and online video are set to consolidate their dominance in advertising in 2020, despite measurement concerns.

IMI Europe announces the full invited speaker and panel session programme for its strategic Digital Printing Conference event. The event will be held at the Courtyard by Marriott Berlin City Centre Hotel, Berlin, Germany from 9-10 October 2019, with supporting events on 7-8 October including a Mergers & Acquisitions forum, Digital Packaging Market Reports Live session and the Inkjet Academy.

Analysis reveals rising sales of customised coasters

Some European countries are known to love wine while other nations are most enamoured of beer. Besides different beverage preferences, Europeans are also divided over what to rest their drinks upon. After analysing several thousand beermat orders, Onlineprinters, the provider of online printing services, found that there are national differences regarding the preferred shape of beermats as well as different industry-specific demand trends.

On September 12, 2019 the first workshop on the application of patent text mining and semantic technologies (PatentSemTech) will take place at FIZ Karlsruhe as part of the conference SEMANTiCS 2019. The full-day workshop will be jointly organized with the Vienna University of Technology.

70 % of the German respondents were of the opinion that food brands bear the main responsibility for the reduction of plastic waste in food packaging, according to an international consumer survey commissioned by Kemira. More than half (55%) are prepared to pay more for regenerative packaging.

Nextrade – The new digital ordering and data management system for suppliers and retailers

Any place, any system: Nextrade – the digital ordering platform – celebrates the go-live of its pilot version at the opening of Tendence 2019. Over 40 suppliers with more than 60,000 articles have already set up their B2B shops on the platform.

A majority of European workers (57%) believe that technology will bring about a four-day working week in the near future as it improves their productivity and efficiency. That’s according to new research from Ricoh Europe which looks at employee attitudes towards the continent’s productivity challenge.

Quocirca’s latest Global Print Security Landscape analysis affirms Konica Minolta’s strategy

Less than half of German businesses succeeding in digitalisation, the lowest rate in Europe, Kyocera study reveals

How Humanity-Centered Design Reshapes the Future Learning Experience of Public Area in Transition - presentation by Sheng-Hung Lee, Designer and Professor at Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, at Future of Design Summit 2019:

Ricoh-commissioned study uncovers that 76% of North American workers enjoy working alongside colleagues of different ages; what was previously thought to be conflict is no longer