“We just don’t learn anything. There’s no arrow of progress in the advertising world,” warns the self-styled Ad Contrarian.

Following the launch of his new book, researcher and author Justin Gibbons explains why now is the perfect time to think about media in a different way.

TV advertising is now wholeheartedly embracing user generated content – but is it entirely a good idea? Plus: an anti-advertising agenda that would thrill XR.

Ebiquity’s Mind the Gap report shows how strategic media planning is a craft we need to double down on, writes Facebook’s Ian Edwards.

Should we pause to consider whether the decline of the humble billboard is actually good for advertisers? Primesight, Exterion, ISBA and Kinetic look at the problem.

There is an unconscious bias in adland that assumes the goal of marketing is merely to ‘optimise’. It is high time we prick this idea once and for all, writes BBH’s Richard Madden

The retailer’s latest campaign is like an advert for communism, writes John Lowery – fabulous in principle but there are a few associated downsides…

Videonet editor-in-chief, John Moulding, files his opening report from Mediatel Events’ TV trip down-under.

In the second of two parts, media leaders reflect on the year gone by – and offer their thoughts on what 2017 will have in store.

Google wants to achieve brand fame – but funny how it doesn’t use online channels to do that, writes Dominic Mills. Plus: orangutans induce anger and a lesson in obfuscation from Time Inc.