Perry Richardson

Bolt has partnered with AI visibility platform Searchable to track how often AI-generated answers recommend its ride-hailing and Bolt Business services, and identify opportunities to improve their visibility against rival apps. The partnership covers five markets across three continents. Searchable will give Bolt’s content team market-by-market data on how often the company appears in answers to questions such as booking an airport ride or finding a low-cost route across a city. Bolt plans to...

Image credit: Sherbet London With millions of tourists visiting London each year and more than nine million residents across the capital, branded black cabs offer businesses a mobile advertising platform capable of reaching audiences across the city. London’s licensed black taxis continue to offer advertisers a distinctive way to reach millions of residents, commuters and international visitors, with their recognisable design and daily presence on the capital’s roads providing opportunities...

Taxi Law has published independent research presenting an option to apply VAT to private hire fares currently outside the charge, estimating it could generate about £1.1bn a year in gross receipts. The report, authored by Taxi Law principal Patrick J. Nolan, suggests a start date of 1 April 2027. It models VAT being applied to fares taken by drivers outside London who are below the £90,000 registration threshold. The estimate is illustrative and based on assumptions set out in the report; it...