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The creative studio, led by Nico Sarti, is pushing a consultative strategy with brands amid a push for revenue.
UM’s global brand president discusses the media agency’s media planning proposition, the value of agency brands, and how she has navigated her team through the transition from Interpublic Group to Omnicom Group.
Meta and Google have been found liable for a woman’s harmful social media addiction. Is an additional harm the business logic that values the attention advertisers want to monetise?
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The annual Living Room Study commissioned by RTL AdAlliance finds that 14% of Europeans go straight to a BVOD service after turning on their TV – up 6 percentage points in a year.
Together with adtech company ShowHeroes, the media agency commissioned a 4,400 person study in Europe that shows streaming subscription fatigue. The authors claim FAST will scale as subscription growth plateaus.
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched a new consultation on applying the Nutrient Profiling Model (NPM) to advertising for less-healthy food and drink products.
At Advertising Week Europe in London Wednesday, Meta’s head of creative strategy for the Nordics, Rich Kivell, warned that brands are treating WhatsApp as a “utility pipe” rather than “a canvas for expression”.