Someone told me the other day that the UK’s TV market was getting crowded this year, with Unilever in particular piling in. So TV’s not dead and buried then. Which WARC, which these days purports to measure effectiveness as well ...
Read More »Hogarth Worldwide: from localisation and adaptation to creative excellence
An interview with Richard Glasson, CEO of Hogarth Worldwide. 1/So-called production agencies started as entities that provided the heavy lifting for creative agencies on clients such as retailers. How has this changed? Digital and content have changed everything. When we ...
Read More »CHI’s Golding unveils ‘Bitcoin Bonus’ to drive machine magic
IPA President Sarah Golding is conducting a crusade to make the business love those dreaded machine functions, such as AI, or at least co-exist with them more comfortably. Now her agency CHI&Partners is launching a ‘Magic & The Machines’ competition ...
Read More »Neil Davidson of HeyHuman: how brands can humanise AI
News stories often espouse doomsday scenarios in the field of AI. The likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking believe increased automation could annihilate jobs, worsen inequality, cause political upheaval and potentially even spell the end of the human race. ...
Read More »Iotec: mobile ads have marketers well confused but that doesn’t stop them doing more of it
Iotec, which describes itself as an independent, transparent media buying platform, has been looking into mobile ads and has discovered, in a survey of 500 marketers, that 41 per cent are (its words) “intimidated” by them. Even more so than ...
Read More »Tom Denford and David Indo from ID Comms: how to tackle ad fraud
On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David stare into the gigantic dark abyss that is ad fraud. So often quoted in surveys as the thing that worries marketers the most, it remains a mystery and takes many guises, more than ...
Read More »Tom Denford and David Indo of ID Comms: how Amazon will break the duopoly
On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David look at the giant opportunity ahead of Amazon to bust open the much-feared ‘duopoly’ of Google and Facebook. The duopoly has accounted for almost all the growth in digital media spend in recent ...
Read More »Uber sues Dentsu media agency Fetch for alleged click fraud – Fetch CEO issues strong rejoinder
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 ...
Read More »Tom Denford and David Indo of ID Comms: Facebook gets it wrong again
On this week’s #MediaSnack we look at the continuing case of Facebook’s measurement mess ups. This time some nifty journalism and analyst work reveals that Facebook’s audience tools are claiming to reach significantly more people than exist in nine major ...
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