The new ‘cookie law’ could see brands lose more than 40% of web traffic, meaning that marketers will have to shift to new marketing channels, according to new research.
More than half (54%) of World Cup fans are brand-conscious, meaning the opportunity for brands and sponsors is huge worldwide just 2 months before the football tournament kicks off in Russia.
Google’s Chrome browser now blocks videos with sound that automatically play when the page loads.
Genuinely ‘purpose-led’ brands stand to grow at twice the rate of those without any higher-order societal aim, according to Kantar Consulting’s new Purpose 2020 research released today.
Almost three quarters (72%) of marketers feel that a culture of measurement is killing creativity, according to a new study.
Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of the world’s biggest advertising company WPP is leaving the company he built up over three decades.
Social media has changed the way people voice their opinions forever, empowering the smallest voice to take to Twitter and challenge the biggest global brand. The success of those challenges still rests in the validity of the case, the support it gets, and the way the message is executed – but the culture of hashtag protests has enabled social protests to achieve scale in days and hours rather than months or years. There is a growing confidence in almost all countries to use social media to protest, making corporate communications a far tougher job today than ever before.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted he had made mistakes over the handling of millions of users data by Cambridge Analytica during the first day of a senate hearing in the US.
Unilever food brand Knorr is trialling a new video ad format that lets viewers choose a charity to benefit from the revenue it derives if they view an ad for at least 15 seconds.
With greater pressure on effectiveness of media buying, YouTube TrueView skippable short ad formats can now be bought on a reach basis.
Publishers’ total digital revenue has increased by 5.6% on a 12-month rolling basis to December 2017, largely driven by display advertising, according to new research.
The Le Monde group has signed a global partnership with leading native advertising solutions provider, Ligatus in a bid to provide a more transparent sponsored content service to its users across a variety of platforms.
US advertisers are so enamoured with influencer marketing that a full 75% of their companies currently employ the discipline and almost half (43%) are planning to increase their spending on it in the next 12 months.
Nearly half (47%) of the world online population will be will be tuning into the FIFA World Cup either online or on TV this summer, with Facebook and WhatsApp the best platforms for brands to reach them, according to new research.
Brands are pursuing the ‘Chinese Dream’, growing total brand value by a record 23% to $683.9 billion in the WPP 2018 BrandZ™ Top 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands ranking.
Adobe has launched ‘Adobe Advertising Cloud Creative’ – a new tool designed to help the relationship between brands and their creative agencies and teams.
Despite a growing distrust of major internet firms, there is no evidence that advertisers are shifting budgets away from online advertising, with share the global advertising expenditure continuing to rise rapidly, according to new research.
Ahead of its IPO next month, Spotify has revealed that around two million users had been accessing the streaming-music service for free using unauthorised apps that block ads.
The US ad market is estimated to hit a record $197 billion in revenue in 2018, up 5.5% from last year, according to new research.
