Ad Tech
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Alex Jardine: Day 2 in the Palais – Oprah inspires but social platforms get a pasting
There was much cheering and whooping as Oprah Winfrey took to the stage in the Palais, looking radiant in a…
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Omar Oakes: you can’t regulate what you can’t live without
Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have made themselves too embedded to fear real regulation. It’s time to think much bigger about…
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What sort of Cannes Lions can we expect?
Cannes Lions is looming and there are really two questions: one is it an advertising event any more (Saatchi’s New…
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UK ad exports hit £19.4bn
Exports of UK advertising services reached a new record high of £19.4bn in 2025, securing the UK’s position as the…
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George Parker: still missing the beef!
A few extra thoughts regarding my post of last week about director Joe Sedelmaier, I feel it is important to…
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Where is the outcry over Publicis buying LiveRamp?
Publicis just bought the switchboard that its rivals depend on. The silence that followed tells you everything about where advertising…
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Omar Oakes: Advertising has reached peak self-delusion
The UK ad market grew 6.4% last year. Congratulations to Google, Meta, and Amazon. ““Fantastic to see the evolution of…
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Omar Oakes: AI in media planning – the race nobody wins
Seven AI announcements landed in advertising this week featuring seven different companies. But there’s only one pattern. And it’s one…
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Omar Oakes: What is your content actually worth when the AI crawlers come for it?
There is one question every media executive is avoiding right now. Even if the AI companies are already answering it…
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