Yesterday the House of Lords published a report into the UK’s digital advertising market. It includes: a call for a CMA study into whether the market is working fairly for businesses and consumers; proposals for enhancing workforce skills and attracting...
Almost every facet of the advertising industry is in upheaval, leading marketers to agree on one thing, if nothing else—that five years down the road, the landscape for them is going to look vastly different than it does today. And,...
GroupM’s Irwin Gotlieb is stepping down from his role as global chairman to transition to a more relaxed schedule as a senior advisor with parent company WPP. The industry leader, who turns 69 this summer, established the first spinout of...
It’s common for marketers to talk up their willingness to pay more for the context and quality of ads now that chasing the cheapest media impressions is seen as a major faux pas in a transparency-obsessed industry. To balance the...
In March, Horizon Media hosted a blockchain summit and brought together platforms to discuss how they are working with the technology. The conference was meant to educate the agency about blockchain as much as enthuse its publisher clients. Horizon Media...
Google also said it is alpha testing an expansion of Exchange Bidding to new ad formats like video and buying methods like programmatic. It expects to release a beta version of those features in a few months. Google also introduced...
LUMA’s latest Market Report highlights the public and private markets during Q1 2018. Coming off a year headlined by media’s mega mergers, the impact is expected to spur continued consolidation this year along with other market forces. In Ad Tech,...
When Marc Pritchard uses choice language to call out the advertising industry, it listens. As chief brand officer of Procter & Gamble, Pritchard manages a significant share of the global advertising budget—which is expected to hit $600 billion by 2021—and...
The issue of transparency has taken center stage in the ad tech world, and for good reason. For too long, the industry has seriously lacked it. Advertisers have led the charge by cutting spending to entities that refuse to shine...
The Lumascape is about to get its close-up, but it’s far from ready. Facebook’s crisis over Russian propaganda ads and misuse of people’s data has made increasingly clear the role of data and tech in people’s lives. That’s about to...