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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Couldn’t be bothered to read Capital in the Twenty-First Century, or any other weighty tome on the future of capitalism and its impact on the media industry? Good job Route’s James Whitmore has done it for you.
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.
BBC Two kicked off a highly ambitious new series, bagging Maggie Gyllenhaal for the lead role for the political thriller The Honourable Woman (9pm).
Three quarters of British TV viewers are not aware that a local channel could be launching in their region this year, with a further 15% claiming to have heard of ‘local TV’ but don’t know where the channels are due to launch.
For only the second time since the FIFA World Cup 2014 kicked off three weeks ago, Wednesday brought a football-free schedule and allowed TV viewers a short but merciful return to programming normality.
The head of one of Europe’s largest publishers has written an open letter to Google arguing that the grossly unequal balance of power must be confronted. What can be done, and how should Google respond? Raymond Snoddy investigates
The majority of commercial television channels performed well in May, with just one reporting a loss in revenue.
The Eurovision Song Contest, a host of pre-World Cup football matches and the ever dependable Britain’s Got Talent feature in this month’s tv viewing round up
It was BBC One’s responsibility to bear the brunt of Tuesday’s FIFA World Cup 2014 entertainment.
