Daniel Todaro, Managing Director of Gekko gives his take on consumer demand for smart tech. The pandemic has changed the way we interact with our homes. Having spent an inordinate amount of time lounging around the house with our families, we have found new and interesting ways to not only …
Read More »The Great British retail take off: 70% of consumers plan significant return to high street
There is a huge desire to get back to the High Street, according to a new survey by Gekko on consumer shopping intentions when lockdown ends. 70% of people are planning on visiting stores as much, or more than pre-pandemic when they reopen in April with only 2% of respondents saying they …
Read More »Make working from home work for you
GEKKO’s managing director, Daniel Todaro reflects on how the Gekko team is coping with its new working from home environment amidst the pandemic and ways to boost productivity for all. Just like many businesses, the Gekko team is continuing to work from home to ensure the safety of all. It …
Read More »Smart Watches, Smart Choice
Daniel Todaro, GEKKO’s managing director discusses the growing trend in smart watches, as we all look to monitor our health more closely and the wider acceptance these devices are gaining in the wake of COVID-19 Lockdown turned the attention of many to fitness and general wellbeing to make the most …
Read More »Smart at the home heart
Gekko’s managing director, Daniel Todaro reports from IFA 2020 in Berlin on the latest in smart tech home appliances and the evolutionary trends in IoT IFA 2020 is a much smaller, intimate socially distanced affair in Berlin. The event organisers have done a superb job at keeping the CE industries …
Read More »Retail will need to adjust to the commercial realities of Covid-19
Gekko Field Marketing’s MD, Daniel Todaro, discusses whether the Coronavirus will present the opportunity to re-appraise the retail experience and increase communities’ appreciation of the high street. So here we are amidst the most bizarre of situations that no one in their lifetime has experienced. There’s never been a global …
Read More »CES 2020 Review: The most interesting tech from this year’s show
Gekko Field Marketing MD Daniel Todaro rounds up his interesting tech finds from this year’s CES show. The New Year in tech wouldn’t be the same without CES, the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas between 7th – 10th January attended by almost every established tech brand, start up …
Read More »Click and Regret: How physical retail can encourage more mindful purchases
With Brits wasting over half a billion pounds every year online on unwanted goods, Gekko’s Daniel Todaro looks at why shoppers should be more mindful before they buy online, and support their local businesses offline. Since it really took off in 2014, the success of Black Friday in the UK …
Read More »Tapping into the booming esports market
Rupert Cook, Sales and Marketing Director at Gekko, looks at the potential opportunities – and pitfalls – gaming retailers may face over the next 12-18 months. In July 2019, spanning three days, the largest gathering of gamers from around the world – 40 million – took part in the Fortnite …
Read More »Could Game of Thrones’ dark cinematography style boost TV sales?
We’ve been warned time and time again that the night is dark and full of terrors, but I don’t think we realised just how dark things were going to get… Episode 3 of season 8 of Game of Thrones aired this weekend, and it was quite the spectacle. Without writing …
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