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As newsbrands experiment with new business models and witness real success, there is one heavyweight owner of top-notch newsbrands which continues to sit on its hands. It’s now time for News UK to nail its colours to the mast with real user and readership numbers says Raymond Snoddy.

As Twitter aims to increase ad revenues by allowing brands to ‘retarget’ sponsored tweets to its users, QUISMA’s Ellie Edwards-Scott looks at the impacts – and pitfalls – for brands.

Animated films are big business – and getting bigger, says Digital Cinema Media’s CEO Simon Rees – so it’s no wonder brands are leaping on them.

When five of the six biggest clients in the supermarket sector review their business in two years, you’ve got to wonder what’s going on, says Dominic Mills, and explains that what supermarkets really need is not cheaper advertising, but better strategic creativity…

This week Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive!, takes a look at how companies are using mobile money and whether ratings driven broadcasters can really compete with subscriber funded channels…

Commutes used to be filled with boredom and moments of ‘dead time’ – but mobile technologies are swiftly changing that and turning us into connected commuters says Mindshare UK’s James Chandler. So what does the future hold for the brands that effectively engage us as we travel?

After Kevin Spacey attracted headlines last week with his MacTaggart lecture in Edinburgh, Raymond Snoddy looks in more detail at what he said – and wonders how much of a threat the likes of Netflix really pose to cable operators.

The importance of content verification for digital advertising has never been higher says the ABC’s Richard Foan – and it is essential if brands are to bring transparency and trust to their campaigns.

One of the key foundations of the Publicis/Omnicom merger will be savings to the tune of $500 million, but Dominic Mills wonders how Levy and Wren are going achieve such a feat. Cutting duplicate jobs is one answer, but holding down the lid on salaries is another…

Forget trying to celebrate yet another ‘year of mobile’ says Videology Group’s Anne de Kerckhove, and in 2013 raise your glass to the year of cross device consumption.