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The casual lies people tell in everyday life are amplified on social media. To get real data about consumers, you need to remove self-awareness from the equation, writes Thomas Laranjo.

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.

Infectious Media’s Attila Jakab looks at how brands can maintain their audiences while tackling the threats they face online.

Will Channel 4’s Great British Bake Off – with advertising revenue boosted by sponsorship – become a commercial and ratings success? Raymond Snoddy rates its chances.

Jane Bloomfield, head of UK marketing at Kantar Millward Brown, explains how new research techniques can help brands ensure they get it right.

The tech behemoths are endemically dismissive of the responsibilities they hold to their advertisers, writes Bob Wootton. Is that all about to change?

The IPA has formally demanded better standards from Google and Facebook – but is its latest weaponry locked and loaded, or has it just got a pea-shooter, wonders Dominic Mills.

From an advertiser’s point of view, the democratisation of imagery has opened up a raft of new avenues through which brands can engage with audiences, writes Spark Foundry’s Monica Majumdar.

The internet wants our attention, but what do consumers actually want from the internet, asks Bibblio’s Mads Holmen.

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.