Following Advertising Week Europe, which included Wednesday’s MediaTel Media Playground event, Digital Cinema Media’s CEO Simon Rees shares his highlights from an inspirational week.
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The annual Interactive Europe study from CBS Outdoor gives insight into the out-of-home trends of urban-dwellers over the past year, revealing that over three quarters were influenced directly by outdoor advertising.
Trevor Beattie, advertising’s self-licensed controversialist, has proclaimed the death of the 30-second ad – and asserted that in future ads should be no longer than five seconds. Aside from the fact that short-form ‘blipverts’ already exist, he is right that the long-form ad is an anachronism and a bore says Dominic Mills.
TubeMogul report reveals that viewers are more receptive to brand advertising between 8pm and midnight, with online video primetime the same as traditional TV.
Covering a range of topics from location-based ads, new venture Weve and its place in the mobile market, and whether mobile technology can even help solve global poverty, the mobile session at Media Playground on Wednesday saw panellists take to the stage to analyse and give insight into what is often seen as a problematic issue for the industry.
For the live Mobile Fix at Media Playground on Wednesday Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive! took a look at mobile advertising. Looking at the Guardian mobile site the night before, every campaign he saw failed for one reason or another. What’s going on?
Quantcast has announced that it will launch a tool for publishers and app developers that aims to “empower” and monetise digital audiences across all platforms.
The IPA has today announced that Ian Priest, Founding Partner of VCCP and International Managing Director of Chime, has been elected as its new president, succeeding Nicola Mendelsohn.
New research from Thinkbox reveals TV advertising is responsible for more than 50% of additional brand word of mouth activity.
As Campaign release the annual top 100 agency rankings, Dominic Mills, a past editor of the magazine, remembers once having a livid agency boss scream into his ear that judging performance based on billings was nonsense. These days, Mills is inclined to agree and argues that in the current ecosystem, a good creative or media agency is about much more than ads or media spend…
