On 29 January, Marc Pritchard, global chief brand officer at Procter & Gamble, delivered a keynote at the US IAB Annual Leadership Meeting, which has since sent shockwaves through the advertising industry, and rightly so. Calling out the media supply chain [...]

With brands in Asia-Pacific still getting accustomed to the digital era, the lack of understanding is pushing them towards low-hanging returns that miss the real targets. This gap in digital knowledge is also making it tough for marketers to match [...]

Las Vegas’ 2017 Consumer Electronics Show explored the road to driverless mobility. Self-driving technology is promising better use of your time while arriving at your destination safely. One of the show’s highlights was BMW’s advanced i Vision Future Technology, featuring [...]

Data sits at the heart of the digital revolution. The huge volume of digital data being generated by organisations and individuals has played a pivotal role in the exponential growth in the amount of data as a whole. And that’s [...]

According to Local Media Works, local news brands, in print and online, are among the UK’s most popular media, reaching 40 million people each month (JICREG, 2015) – that’s more than the population of Canada. Yet even with these impressive [...]

For many years, senior marketers have been reliant on a range of companies and services to fulfil their marketing objectives. Collective buying power, planning information, marketing technology, data, and creative have all ultimately been controlled by someone other than the [...]

As we reflect on the past year, there have been a number of events that have impacted our industry; the ANA released their explosive report investigating non-transparent business practices in advertising; the Rio Olympics brought light upon the censorship within [...]

In the world of digital advertising we’ve become addicted to simplistic models and KPIs. As Anna Forbes (pictured below), UK managing director, Marchex writes, the biggest offender in this world of over-simplification is, by and large, last click. Consequently, there’s an [...]

2016 has truly shown how dynamic an ecosystem the digital advertising industry is. There have been highs and lows, but it has certainly been memorable. In a series of features reflecting on the past year and looking ahead to what [...]

Cross-device tracking and attribution has been a problem for marketers ever since smartphone and tablet use became mainstream. The conundrum that markets face is how to allocate budget across desktop, tablet, and mobile channels when they cannot calculate ROI accurately. [...]