This week Dominic Mills chews his way through a menu of advertising news, from Omnicom’s £30m Channel 5 exit, to marketing’s apparent identity crisis.
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Should programmatic platforms steer clear of advertising creative? No, argues TubeMogul’s Ian Monaghan – they should help inform strategy and improve the art through feedback.
In his round-up of everything mobile, Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive!, this week looks at embracing digital, the latest mobile adspend forecasts and new developments in the mobile money space.
Kantar has today announced the acquisition of the Guardian Digital Agency, a specialist data visualisation, site design and interactive development agency previously part of Guardian News & Media.
James Wildman, Trinity Mirror’s new chief revenue officer of its National Advertising Sales Agency, begins his role this week with a fresh focus on digital revenues.
Programmatic platforms should concentrate on effective media placement – not the actual content, message or make-up of the ad, writes Dominic Mills. So why is Rocket Fuel trying to solve creative problems?
Forces are at play that could change the way we measure media – and ISBA‘s Bob Wootton wonders if a more fragmented media audience could pave the way for more collaborative research.
Earlier this year Bauer Media launched The Debrief, a new multi-platform brand aimed at the constantly connected 20-something woman. With native advertising at its heart, Bauer’s advertising lead shares his key learnings.
This year’s Cannes Lions was characterised by a ridiculous obsession with nationalism, writes Dominic Mills – and what’s with the weird case of the second-hand winner from last year being hawked around the world to other clients?
After losing its way recently, ZenithOptimedia finally has an idea which could turn things around, writes Dominic Mills – but it will need many more if it really wants to get into different territory.