Despite past concerns, Freesheets today have a lot going for them argues Tim Carr, director and head of international at adconnection. They travel far and wide, attract new – and multiple – readers, and with the right online offering can lead people towards workable ‘freemium’ content…
Online display advertising has failed and in its wake comes Native Advertising – a term we’ll all be using by 2014, we’re assured. But there is much confusion outside of the US about what it even means, never mind having the know-how to pitch its use to a client. Never fear, because Greg Grimmer has a simpler explanation for what he says is the Next Big Thing.
This year’s festival was about far more than the films – it was about the stars, the parties, the fashion and some real-life drama through an audacious jewellery heist. And while this helped Chopard take the headlines, the ubiquitous presence of brands at the festival reflects the increasingly close relationship between advertising and film, says DCM’s Simon Rees.
This week Simon Andrews looks at why CMOs are being told to fundamentally change their marketing operating models, the argument that we don’t want Big Data – we want clever data, and the impact Yahoo’s Tumblr purchase will have on ads.
Privacy law is changing and the effect on personal data – key to the relationship between brands and consumers – will be monumental, says Colin Strong, Managing Director, GfK NOP Business & Technology. So what can brands do to ensure they don’t get caught out? Ensuring data issues are not ghettoised within a business is step one…
With so much news coming out of Google I/O, it’s inevitable some of the announcements won’t get the attention they deserve, so this week Simon Andrews takes a look at the lesser discussed, yet hugely interesting developments.
The latest RAJAR results report, along with the usual ups and downs, a potentially seminal moment in the life of digital radio: half of the UK adult population now listens to the radio on a digital platform. Unfortunately this is not ‘the’ 50% that has been touted by the Government as the tipping point for any digital switch over, but it’s still positive news says IPSOS MediaCT’s Andy Haylett.
Starcom MediaVest’s Steve Smith takes a look at the union between out-of-home and mobile and explains why it’s so important that brands optimise their mobile platforms.
In February 2011 Ofcom permitted limited liberalisation of UK paid for product placement. This was perhaps the biggest shakeup in the product placement market since 1984 when NMG introduced formalised free prop provision to an unstructured marketplace. So a little over two years since Ofcom’s changes, where can we see market trends going? NMG offers its predictions…
The most public of spaces is merging with one of the most personal, and the impact on the consumer is going to be profound argued industry leaders yesterday during a debate on the marriage of out-of-home and mobile.
