Newsline columnist Bob Wootton, alongside other commentators, has lately been highly critical of online advertising. Here, the IAB’s James Chandler confronts the barrage of digital criticism.
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The tech behemoths are endemically dismissive of the responsibilities they hold to their advertisers, writes Bob Wootton. Is that all about to change?
For the first time there are realistic chances that the £11.7bn Murdoch bid for all of Sky will not go ahead – or at the very least be mired in further delays amid intensifying political controversy.
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