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Has Wall Street fallen out of love with Facebook? The social media behemoth’s shares fell 20 per cent yesterday, not so much because it narrowly missed its quarterly earnings target of $13.3bn (posting $13.2bn) or that user numbers slipped back ...

New Yorker writer and author Ken Auletta’s chat to departed WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell at Cannes should be interesting. Even even if he doesn’t delve into the reasons for Sorrell’s shock departure he has an interesting thesis, described here, ...

Facebook’s revenues are going through the roof – nearly $12bn in the first quarter Of 2018 (49 per cent up year on year) – 91 per cent of it via mobile. This when founder Mark Zuckerberg has been hauled before ...

Here are some supposed highlights from Faceboook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s first day of testimony before the US Congress following the Cambridge Analytica data mis-use revelations (87m users had their information hacked). Not much new here from a contrite Zuckerberg although ...

The Cambridge Analytica affair may be the biggest threat to Facebook to date; far more so than Russian meddling in the last US Presidential Election (the Cambridge Analytica gang were much cleverer in the way they harvested data from, virtually, ...

Yesterday we had timeTo, a somewhat belated effort to tackle sexism and its consequences in UK agencies from, among others, The Advertising Association and women’s ad group Wacl. Now in the US, where there’ve been more cases of sexual harassment, ...

New ITV boss Carolyn McCall is just settling into her new plush new seat at the the UK’s biggest free-to-air broadcaster but she might not be too pleased to see the latest report from Deloitte’s technology, media and telecoms practice ...

When an advertiser or business partner pulls out of a relationship with a newspaper or TV station the time-honoured response is “boo, hiss,” censorship rearing its (mercifully rare) ugly head. Such has been the response by many to Virgin Trains’ ...

So what has happened to the Christmas ads missing millions? Last week we noted that YouTube views seems to be down across the piece and it seems that the same has happened to Facebook shares (bigger numbers than YouTube in ...