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The tech platform has launched a product in beta called Moments to enable publishers to place vertical videos into articles.

At Pinterest Presents 2024, executives showed off new AI solutions for advertisers and urged brands to support both business and moral values by moving spend away from the online advertising ‘duopoly’.

Tech is radically changing media and advertising, but our first Future of Media Manchester event reminded us that what matters most to creativity and sales is the same now as it was 200 years ago, writes the editor-in-chief.

Snapchat’s ‘Less Social Media, More Snapchat’ campaign was designed to target people who don’t already use the platform through OOH activations.

They may be celebrated and claim to connect more with audiences, but viral campaigns make less business sense as they lack reach and long-term impact. Here’s why we still need proper ‘ad campaigns’.

Interview: Debbie Morrison is the driving force behind the advertiser/agency contracts on which today’s media industry still depends. Speaking to The Media Leader on the eve of her retirement, Morrison describes her unique career rooting out bad practice and building a more trustworthy industry. 

News Media Association CEO Owen Meredith joins Jack Benjamin to discuss challenges facing news publishers relating to search and social media, as well as the sustainability of local news.

Jack Benjamin and Omar Oakes discuss the major stories of the past week, including the proposed sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media, scenes from recent Radiocentre, Thinkbox and Who Cares? events, and product updates from Meta and Snap.

Some of us may feel like Miles Bennell, screaming at strangers that someone’s after us. But it doesn’t have to be this way. It’s time to redefine what and who the ad industry is. 

EssenceMediacom’s chief strategy officer and head of media science and modelling join Jack Benjamin to explain how advertisers are spending three times more on paid social than is optimal.