There’s been a lot of talk recently about the slow movement towards counting ‘attention minutes’ rather than relying on impressions alone when looking at the success of online ads. The argument being that brands would only pay for active views, ...
Read More »Facebook’s Andrew Bosworth: why we’ve decided to block the ad blockers
As more and more content has shifted to the internet, online experiences have improved dramatically, becoming more immersive and intuitive. But many digital ads haven’t kept up. We’ve all experienced a lot of bad ads: ads that obscure the content ...
Read More »Neish moves up at Dare as Thomas departs for Facebook
Dare CEO Leigh Thomas is leaving to become Facebook EMEA’s new director of global client partnerships. She will be replaced by Richard Neish who becomes managing director. Neish will head a new senior team including recently-appointed chief technology officer Michael ...
Read More »Simon Hakim: does Facebook really work for brands?
How great is Facebook for brands? All those likes, all those shares, all those people interacting with your brand and engaging in a two-way conversation – it’s the social media marketing utopian ideal. For plenty of agencies, too, Facebook, Twitter ...
Read More »Facebook adds love and hate to ‘Like’ button
The wonderful world of Facebook is introducing new additions to its ‘Like’ button, to wit: Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry, under the tag of Reactions (below). Apparently brands won’t be able to disconnect them, which should make life on ...
Read More »A taxing business: Google, Apple, Facebook and their ever-ingenious bean counters
Here’s Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google owner Alphabet, now the biggest company in the world by market cap at $535bn, chatting up David Cameron at a soiree in 2012. No idea what they’re talking about but I bet it wasn’t ...
Read More »Here’s how 2015 was for Facebook
Facebook’s a big global player in everything these days so it’s appropriate, in a way, that it gives us its view of 2015. I assume this film from production company Whirlpool was completed before the recent Paris attacks. It’s easy ...
Read More »Marimedia to buy AreaOne to create bigger social media data operation
As social media grows apace, with Facebook in particular attracting huge advertising dollars, more and more companies are setting up to try to guide advertisers through this maze. Two such, Marimedia, which says it “leverages big data to optimise mobile ...
Read More »WPP strikes new data deal with Facebook
WPP has struck a deal with Facebook that will, it claims, allow clients to ‘activate’ WPP’s proprietary data products within Facebook, as opposed to using Facebook’s off-the-shelf categories of users. Kantar CEO Eric Salama (Kantar is WPP’s data division) says: ...
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