Technology

What to do about dodgy stuff on YouTube? Not so long ago the “brand safety” issue was dodgy videos next to ads, now it’s dodgy (and worse) comments on videos featuring children. Not usually adjacent to a brand. Clearly policing ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack episode Tom and David discuss the hypothesis that media mess is distracting marketers, leading to lower quality advertising and encouraging consumers to reject brand messages. The latest report from GroupM called ‘The State of Video’ suggests ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David look at the challenges facing Facebook and ask if the company can maintain its incredible rate of growth. This is going to be hard for a business for that relies on advertising for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...