Politics

“Facebook hit the nuclear option with devastating impacts for everyday Australians..” That’s how news.com.au reported Facebook blocking news on its platform today. Clearly, they have a vested interest in the situation. However, there is no doubt Facebook’s move in response ...

March 21 is National Census Day in the UK – the first for ages – and it’s always handy to know how many of us there are and what we’re like. Demographics have been on many minds recently of course ...

Are the Covid clouds lifting with the worldwide vaccination programme? The UK has led the way in Europe – to the ire of some of its neighbours – but one of the issues has been take-up of the vaccine with ...

Younger people turned in droves (79%) to digital media during the UK’s various lockdowns while the older generation reverted to mainstream media. 48% of all adults surveyed in the latest IPA TouchPoints report went digital with commercial TV and news ...

Super Bowl’s over and done (Tom Brady again) but the ads will be with us for a while and Chrysler keeps popping up over the years as one of the most noteworthy advertisers. Celebs have usually played a part: Eminem, ...

Is the ad business, specifically the big data-obsessed holding companies, sleepwalking into disaster as they try to hoover up information about consumers everywhere? Epsilon, which Publicis Groupe bought for $4.4bn in 2019, has agreed a $150m settlement with the US ...

The government has withdrawn a Facebook ad that shows exactly what it thinks women should stay home for: baby care, home schooling, or cuddling up to a man on the sofa. Apparently a government spokesman suggested that it didn’t reflect ...

All the to-ing and fro-ing over Tik Tok’s ownership (it now seems to be shared between Oracle, Walmart and China’s ByteDance after D. Trump’s intervention) doesn’t seem to have held back the social media upstart. Now it’s claiming the first ...

Covid cases are going down (slowly) in the UK but there are still lots of people in hospital, many on ventilators. So the latest instalment of the NHS campaign through MullenLowe shows real patients to remind us that it ain’t ...