In response to Mike Follett’s comments at Future of Media Manchester, one planner advises interrogating the platforms and tweaking how you utilise them; don’t blindly de-invest because of the attention metrics.

The “no ads option” will cost £2.99 per month on desktop or £3.99 per month on iOS and Android. Users with multiple accounts will be forced to pay more and organic sponsored content will be unaffected.

A new study of recently mandated transparency data under the EU Digital Services Act found that millions of users of social platforms in the region post in languages without any human moderation.

Molly Rose Foundation’s Andy Burrows and Conscious Advertising Network co-chair Harriet Kingaby discuss what’s at stake if advertisers don’t apply pressure to social platforms serving harmful content to teens.

The academic joins Jack Benjamin to discuss the ‘antidotes’ to enshittification, how AI slop is taking over our TikTok feeds, the ethics of chatbots and whether business incentives are aligning with social incentives for technological change in media.

We might soon treat high-performing organic content as searchable assets and marketers may need to reframe how they evaluate performance. The walls are coming down. 

Analysis: It’s not clear how Zuckerberg is defining “superintelligence”, whether Meta is close to building it, how it could shape consumer products and how it might impact data privacy. But Meta keeps printing money.

The ASA assessed over 50,000 pieces of influencer context on social media platforms, finding that only 57% stuck to its rules on ad disclosure.

Following the recent ruling on Meta’s privacy intrusion, Thinkbox’s new CSO explores how advertising can deliver relevance without the stalker vibes.

From slapdash return-to-office mandates to ignoring the untenable pressure on working mothers, we must stop being careless with women’s careers.