Media

Here’s Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg outlining nine things the social network is going to do to prevent nasties invading its space: specifically some 3,000 Russia-originated anti-Clinton election ads it’s magnanimously agreed to share with the US Congress, which is investigating election ...

The Martin Agency in Richmond – and its client Geico – are the undisputed masters of YouTube ads and here’s a new, uncharacteristically in your face iteration. Making an impact though. See the YouTube comments from percussionists everywhere. MAA creative ...

Every week seems to bring a new disaster for Facebook – not one that seems to affect its money-hoovering activities mind – and now it’s the discovery by ProPublica that you can target the news feeds of over 2,000 people ...

Almost every brand says they put their customer at the heart of what they do, but almost all struggle to actually do it. There are too many silos, legacy systems, processes and company structures that get in the way. Yet, ...

Paul Hammersley has signed up four more agencies for his Harbour collective, which aims to be a new-style network of independent agencies. They are digital creative agency Dare, owned by Oliver which is already a member; creative content agency Digital ...

The senior agency executive recoiled in horror when I suggested that creative and media agencies were tiptoeing back to full service. “Clients will just say they want the creative or media for nothing!” And there’s something to be said for ...

Fetch Media, the digital and mobile specialist owned by Dentsu, is being sued for $40m by Uber for “click fraud,” allegedly billing the ride-hailing giant for fake online ads and downloads it had nothing to do with. Fetch, based in ...

Here’s Sir Martin Sorrell entering the ring (again – in a hoodie this time) against the report by K2 and Ebiquity (not top of his Christmas card list, ever) on “media transparency” for the US National Association of National Advertisers ...

The rise of Steve King (below) at Publicis continues apace, now the global boss of Publicis Media (and also member of Publicis’ all-powerful Directoire, which sounds as if he can chop your head off) is taking overall charge of all ...