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VoxComm, which represents agencies globally, said practice has led to downward pressure on agency fees.

MG OMD’s CEO on the need to move beyond demographic-targeting practices, learnings from handling the government account during the pandemic and concerning rollbacks in DEI and ESG initiatives.

Engagement through rage can drive users away. Smart platforms will attract those seeking more positivity, providing advertisers with greater environments to spend.

The industry has been over-reliant on cookies for too long. But they’ve become a distraction while larger, more damaging practices have continued unchallenged. It’s not really about cookies — it’s about privacy.

An Adalytics report last week found a number of brands inadvertently ran advertising against child sexual abuse material. Third-party brand-safety verification tools may be less useful than simple inclusion lists, according to experts.

As an industry, we prioritise empty platitudes over tangible policy. Remote working is vital to levelling the playing field for diverse talent — why are we pretending otherwise?

Advertisers have a challenge on their hands when Gen Z are struggling with the concept of truth and represent a wide range of worldviews as they face up to close-to-home concerns.  

Advertising is an increasingly important business discipline that is gaining a political dimension. This could lead to new and different decisions in where adspend goes.

The constant ghosting, in various guises, speaks poorly to the trust, integrity and “values” that this industry supposedly embraces.

Meta claims it’s ‘business as usual’, so will the ad industry hold its nose or will it act on the moral and business cases that question social media?