The past 15 months have been tricky to navigate for digital advertisers. As the pandemic drove people to consume more digital content than ever and social justice movements permeated the news cycle, it became increasingly difficult to prevent ads from appearing next...
Increasingly for businesses, factoring in the needs of disabled customers from the start is becoming a crucial part of product development. Yet this huge market – the so-called “Purple pound” – remains largely untapped as many firms are failing...
This week’s blog reproduces parts of, and adds some of my own thoughts to a thoughtful blog from Brian Jacobs, on a subject that is very close to my heart, as regular readers will know – misogyny. Brian says “The more I look around, the more I read...
Last week saw the launch of the UK’s latest TV channel, GBNews, the brainchild of ex-News International executive Andrew Neil, funded for the most part by overseas entities. Our blog today is courtesy of Brian Jacobs, a man who knows more about media, advertising...
2021 forecast and a final look at 2020’s results (with thanks to eMarketer). Although 2020 was ad spending’s most disappointing year on record worldwide, it could have been worse. In fact, the final figures outperformed dire mid-pandemic projections: Before the...
Latest data from Insider Intelligence predicts that podcasting in the US will cross the $1 billion mark this year. Podcast ad spending is on track to exceed $2 billion by 2023 and growth estimates have been upped due to a 36.8% spike in spend during 2020, estimated...