This week Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive!, takes a look at some Christmas-themed technology trends and explains the advantages to Google’s recent policy change that has sparked protests from users…
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Too many people in the media are guilty of taking local newspapers for granted, Says Raymond Snoddy – but the local press is always with us and has admirably stood out from the crowd in recent weeks.
If it is the advertising that makes the brand promise, then it is the role of content marketing to show how brands live up to it. But in the tragic case of BT.com it has turned into an irrelevant, useless mess says Dominic Mills.
Let’s not get bogged down in the apparently small issues that separate the two royal charters. In the end we are talking principles – about the separation of powers between government and a free press in a democracy.
Last week, led by new president Ian Priest, the IPA launched its first ‘Adaptathon’ – an ambitious 18 month programme to try and improve client agency relationships. Dominic Mills reports on some of the surprising outcomes.
As the Privy Council is due to rule on the two Royal Charters governing press regulation, the Daily Mail’s editor Paul Dacre could not have chosen a worse week for his rush of poisonous blood to the head says Raymond Snoddy.
Dominic Mills is bewildered by some of the cities bidding for Local TV licences, but is London somehow different? He hears what the bosses behind the Evening Standard’s London Live had to say about the project…
At the consumer end of the business, Virgin and Sky will fight like cats in a sack says Raymond Snoddy – but what is remarkable are the large areas of agreement between them. So what do they have to say about their future?
DR, Denmark’s small public service broadcaster, has produced monster hits including The Killing, Borgen and The Bridge. Raymond Snoddy asks how they have pulled this off – and after hearing the organisation’s director of cultural affairs talk at IBC in Amsterdam, finds the answers are both extreme and surprising.
As the BBC sinks into yet another crisis, the future of the BBC Trust remains in the balance. Should it simply be put out of its misery? The answer from Raymond Snoddy is an emphatic no.