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Welcome to Monmouth, the world’s first Wikipedia town. Yes, Monmouthpedia aims to cover every notable place, person, artefact and any other item in Monmouth.

Now there’s Curalate. What is it? It’s a monitoring and analytics tool which aims to gives brands a complete picture of their brand engagement using a combination of image-recognition tech and big data analytics.

More than one third of UK consumers now read marketing e-mails on their mobile devices, rising significantly to over half among 18-to-34 year olds, according to a new report published by digital agency Steel London. The research also finds that many people who read marketing mails on their mobiles do so to screen them for later reading on a PC or laptop. In light of this, Steel says brands need to rethink their marketing strategies to find the sweet spot that maximises consumer interest across both types of screen.

L’Occitane is the best-performing luxury brand in the digital space in both Brazil and Russia, according to L2’s Digital IQ Index: Brazil, Russia, India report. L’Occitane’s Brazilian Facebook page reached 100,000-fan milestone in January with a hand-cream giveaway pushing up metrics – the brand managed to rack up 40,000 fans in a 12-day period

‘Google’ is searched for more often than the terms God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism combined. Is social media the new religion? asks Euro RSCG in its This Digital Life report. Thirty-eight percent of global consumers surveyed by the agency say they already use social media to change the world for the better. “Whether donating to a local cause via PayPal or helping to sustain public interest in the capture of a wanted war criminal, people are using the tools available to them in the digital world to create change in the real world,” the report says.

Around six in 10 global consumers are concerned about their addiction to – or over-reliance on – technology, according to a global survey conducted by Euro RSCG for the This Digital Life report. And half of respondents worry that digital technology and multitasking are impairing humans’ ability to think deeply and focus on one task at a time. Also,  46% admit that being online distracts them too often. In addition, one third say being online interferes with their family life.

Nearly half of UK consumers would like to control the type of advertising they see online and 40% want easy access to the information being shared about them, according to a report published by the IAB UK and ValueClick, based on research carried out by Kantar Media. Six in 10 UK consumers are concerned about online privacy.

BBC Worldwide has launched a free-to-play online game based on its hit TV show Strictly Come Dancing. Strictly Keep Dancing is available in the UK at StrictlyKeepDancing.com and has gone live in the US as Dancing with the Stars: Keep Dancing.