More Media Commentators articles

With an average segment of the Super Bowl audience watching the game in large noisy groups, communicating a message without sound is critical. And with a $4 million price tag, a lot is at stake if advertisers get this wrong. By Darren Hamer, Managing Director UK, EyeTrackShop

The digital ecosystem is becoming increasingly complex, as brands split their video budgets between online, mobile and connected TVs. So what’s the optimum mix? Rhys McLachlan, Director of Corporate and Business Development at Videology investigates.

GfK’s Wendy Jones and IAB’s Alex Kozloff look at new research that helps us to understand the ways in which mobile has changed the path to the consumer – from Apple’s Passbook to Marks & Spencer’s in-store Wi-Fi offerings – and ask what brands need to do to ensure success.

The thing that killed HMV was the fact the ‘new’ players just kept improving their businesses – investing in new features and perfecting the way their sites work. By Simon Andrews, founder of addictive!.

Jeremy Toeman, CEO of Dijit Media, has no idea what a Honey Boo Boo is, nor what the Amish Mafia is after – but his thoughts are very clear when it comes to predicting the buying behaviour of TV watchers.

Matt McNally, Business and Strategy Analyst at Decipher, takes a look at Apple TV – that much-rumoured, but never confirmed device – and offers his thoughts on what we might expect.

The significance of social signals – a like or a dislike on Facebook; a tweet or a retweet – has been fiercely discussed among SEO experts for quite some time, but the debate is divided by one question: what influence do social signals have on the indexing in search engines, such as Google? By Ellie Edwards-Scott, MD UK Quisma.

The parallels between religion and social networking are striking and now, instead of praying to the void, you type into it. By James Whitmore, MD at Postar

The stats on Facebook’s user growth are amazing – they picked up another 74 million mobile users over the last quarter – but whilst this impressed some, (and surpassed analyst expectations on earnings per share) the view from Wall Street was ‘meh’. By Simon Andrews

The accepted orthodoxy is that print is about to die, but News International’s Abba Newbery is not convinced. New technologies mean that both paper and the web can work together. Is this part of the Third Age of News?