Ad Tech

We should be in a new golden era of advertising. If anyone from outside our industry were to stumble across our industry titles, conferences, LinkedIn or Twitter posts, they’d be forgiven for thinking that we’re an industry at war with ...

We’ve been saying for years that creative agency brands will be culled although not many people expected Y&R to be subsumed so brutally into WPP’s digital network VML – to create new agency VMLY&R. Other WPP brands are rumoured to ...

Bob Willott of Marketing Services Financial Intelligence (who knows about these things) reckons Sir Martin Sorrell (below) and his co-investors have made a £38m paper profit on his new venture S4 Capital which reversed into a company called Derriston and ...

Google and Facebook have profited mightily by being the first companies to achieve direct marketing at scale but life may be about to become more difficult. Despite the various scandals afflicting Facebook in particular and pressure from regulators both companies ...

How long does the writing have to be on the wall before anyone reads it? Back in 2016 the Us Association of National advertisers (ANA) produced a report into media transparency – following some whistle blowing by a former WPP ...

Japanese advertising’s second biggest group, Hakuhodo Holdings, seems to have been quietly building a pretty credible collection of agencies, called Kyu, outside of its homeland. Kyu, which is mostly based in North America, has appointed AMV BBDO’s former chairman, Farah ...

The ‘Smarter as Standard’ 3-part video series focuses on the launch of Talon’s ‘Smarter as Standard’ manifesto, the role of automation in smarter planning in OOH, and the use of data in smarter planning in OOH. Back in March we ...

“When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do sir?” is a quote attributed to famous economist John Maynard Keynes. Former WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (below) is not quite as famous but he seems to have ...

Veteran UK client/agency matchmaker the AAR (formerly Advertising Agency Register) is broadening its horizons with a new innovation practice aimed at helping companies find the right innovation partner be it an ad agency, management consultancy, start-up incubator or pureplay innovation ...