Bob Wootton challenges an advertiser seeking to restore brand saliency to use an ‘old fashioned’ media plan – if only to settle an industry-wide argument. Plus: understanding trading disputes.

All Bob Wootton wants for Christmas is for everyone in adland to start doing their jobs properly.

From agency mergers to out-of-home consolidation, and TV challenges to social media punishments, everything in media and advertising stands on shifting sands, writes Bob Wootton.

The first media agency to utilise blockchain ‘smart contract’ technology has gone awfully quiet since it launched to much fanfare a year ago. What happened, wonders Bob Wootton.

As long as fees for consultancy far outweigh those for audit, the consulting tail will wag the auditing dog – and pimped audits and subsequent casualties will endure, writes Bob Wootton.

It’s a pity there are still so many border disputes within our industry at a time of such change and challenge, writes Bob Wootton. Plus: the men-children running Silicon Valley and adland’s generational change…

>Commercial TV’s Contract Rights Renewal is outmoded and must change, writes Bob Wootton. Here’s what needs to happen.

Even when presented with hard evidence many marketers still fail to rectify their poor investment decisions, writes Bob Wootton.

Bob Wootton has spoken with major advertisers about their concerns for the future. Everyone should be worried.

2018 is already shaping up to be a watershed year, writes Bob Wootton as he reviews adland’s major talking points.