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Following the announcement of this year’s strange Cannes speaker list to the self-delusion of Nike’s World Cup ad, it’s time to get advertising into context, writes Dominic Mills.

What marks out a great client? In the third of the series, David Indo explains how the best clients benefit from being very clear about what they want from their media agency.

Good Morning Britain and London Live have started out suffering in the television ratings, writes Raymond Snoddy – can there be any chance to win audiences over?

The driving force behind this new-fashioned name for an old-fashioned endeavour, however poorly articulated by the tag, could represent a real opportunity for publishers, says Peter Houston, founder of Flipping Pages Media.

Lumping tablet and smartphone reporting into ‘mobile’ is frustrating, but the success of tablets as a platform in their own right will hopefully see things change this year, says InSkin Media’s Dominic Tillson.

A new report reveals that a many marketers are not trained in marketing performance and ROI – so no wonder the average boardroom is ill-informed and financially illiterate regarding the value of advertising, writes David Brennan.

UKOM’s James Smythe argues that the greatest obstacle in growing online brand advertising is a lack of confidence in the medium caused by uncertainty amid the complexity of data and solutions.

The POG merger was originally trumpeted as a logical sharing of cultural values but it now looks as though the whole deal is predicated on tax – and that is really not a good place to start, writes Dominic Mills.

As Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon all report earnings, Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive!, takes a look at how the tech giants are shaping the market – and what marketers need to watch out for.

Phil Sumner, Nielsen’s UK media director, uses new research insights to answer a question often asked by the industry but has, until now, largely gone unanswered…