The fictional Borgen newsroom is complex and authentic, says Rufus Olins, CEO, Newsworks. The interdependency between the senior politicians, the spin doctors and the media is expertly drawn without resorting to cartoon characters or cliché – indeed, Borgen shows how news media can shape the national conversation and the outcome of events.
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Alchemy Social’s MD, Helen Crowley, takes a look at the impact of Facebook’s recently launched ‘Graph Search’ on the value of social data and suggests what brands now need to do to ensure they are set up for large scale take up of social search by users.
Dominic Mills argues that while tablets may accelerate the death of print, they may actually be the saviour of publishing – and there is a clear chain of links to follow if we want to predict the ways things are going to go this year…
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A couple of years ago, David Brennan was asked to produce a document to demonstrate why TV on demand airtime CPMs were worth 4-5 times average spot rates. To say that was one of the most difficult presentations he’s ever produced would be a massive understatement…
The great thing about the future of the media is that it changes every five minutes. Just when you thought you had finally got a handle on things, everything gets thrown up in the air again, like some sort of media perpetual motion machine.
It’s only mid-January but, as Aegis’s Jim Marshall marvels, there have been a number of high-profile media spats already. Let’s hope there are many more in 2013, he says – and that the Goliaths of the industry continue to find the going tough…
The early adopter vanguard of tablets has been swiftly followed by the late majority wave, says Greg Grimmer. So what does it mean for advertising agencies and publishers?
Channel 4, Group M and, most importantly, its clients, will be mighty relieved the trading dispute between the broadcaster and the media agency was resolved last week – but such high-profile stand-offs make a nonsense of media agency claims about the importance of strategic and channel planning.
The real reason why Hacked Off, which has been annoyingly effective over the past year, is angry is that they know in their hearts that they have lost the battle to achieve the full implementation of the Leveson recommendations, in particular the statutory underpinning of a new regulatory body.