Technology

There’s an interesting battle developing between David Jones’ You & Mr Jones and Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital, both offering new-style solutions to the world’s big marketers. You & Mr Jones, which calls itself the world’s first BrandTech group (it’s even ...

“It is ironic that people think our industry is terrible when WPP are in it and a fantastic industry when Accenture are in it” WPP boss Mark Read (below) told a Morgan Stanley conference last month. The quote comes from ...

UK advertising is booming, which may come as a surprise to some of you out there. According to WPP’s GroupM, the world’s biggest agency media buyer, UK advertising will grow 7.8 per cent in 2019 to £22bn – Brexit or ...

Marketing technology platform Ad-Lib has appointed two heavyweights: former Googlers Adit Abhyankar as CEO and Patrick Collister as creative director. Abhyankar was head of Google Marketing Platform, Continental Europe and Emerging Markets while Collister (left), a former senior agency creative, ...

UK marketers remain surprisingly optimistic about the prospect of leaving the European Union – Brexit – with 78 per cent believing their ability to reach goals will improve if and when it happens and 57 per cent expecting a budget ...

Talon continues to invest in proprietary data management platform, Ada, boosting the platform’s capabilities through a partnership with Tamoco, a sensor-driven location data network. The partnership follows Ada’s continued success in helping advertisers to accurately target OOH campaigns on actual ...

MullenLowe UK is the lead agency in a big win for the Interpublic-owned agency: a number of pharma giant Bayer’s so-called “power brands” including Bepanthen, Berocca, Canesten, Elevit, Iberogast, Redoxon, Rennie and Supradyn, and integrated campaigns, digital and content for ...

By Elizabeth Cherian, Wunderman Thompson Known as the SXSW of Europe, Web Summit is annually hosted in Lisbon, Portugal, and the largest tech conference in the world. This year’s event pavilions were heaving with more than 70,000 global attendees, all ...

Grey Consulting has teamed with pollsters YouGov to discover that: 63 per cent of people trust social media platforms less than they did two years ago. Shift in confidence means 61 per cent of users are being more careful about ...