It’s become common currency to kick Facebook – it’s old hat, it’s advertising is terrible, it treats its users with contempt. But the blue F remains the king of social networks. Ed Owen explains why.

We have to try anything to make publishing pay – except putting the bean counters in charge, says Ed Owen, editor of the Global Academy of Digital Marketing.

The balance between digital technology and creative is at breaking point, says Ed Owen – and while there’s good creative out there, too much is driven by the next ‘new’, and marketers need to be far more circumspect.

The smartphone market might be growing strongly, says Ed Owen, but the excitement and differentiation has died. Didn’t smartphones used to be exciting?