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On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom Denford chats to Brian Wieser, the marketing business’s favourite analyst. Tom and Brian talk about the challenges of making sense of holding company finances, the importance of new business and what it will take for ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David look at the sudden wave of CEOs departing UK media agencies. Four big names have left media leadership positions in one week. They ask what’s causing the rush to depart/escape/replace (delete as appropriate) ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David look at the rumours (and plausible evidence) that one of the major advertising holding companies will become an acquisition target for one of the big consultant or audit firms. These whispers first became ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David reflect on what’s driving media pitches in 2017 and what to expect to take centre stage in pitch briefs during 2018. The start of Q4 is a good time to reflect on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David look at the second quarter results published by the big marketing services groups over the summer and consider the causes and implications of the poor performance. They ask if the downturn is a ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David vent a little about the consistently underwhelming experience of seeing companies – both technology and agency – try and pitch technology solutions to marketers. As technology is an increasingly important part of the ...