The advertising industry has become a place where machines have replaced people, jobs have become soul-less, and data is treated as royalty – this before AI gets into its stride. Much present-day advertising is ineffective, inefficient, unaccountable,...
The cookieless era is upon us, and the time to act is now. What many see as a challenge, is instead potentially a catalyst to enhance business performance according to some. Organisations that have made the shift to first-party data collaboration are achieving...
Over sixty per cent of UK marketers believe consumer segmentation – the categorisation of customers based on shared traits – is an outdated method of marketing, with 63% considering it totally unfit for purpose. That’s according to new research from enterprise...
It was in 2020 that Google dropped the bombshell it would be blocking third party cookies on its Chrome browser by 2022. This phase out was delayed (twice, in fact) as the tech giant took more time to test its Sandbox Privacy solution. For the time being, third party...
Words matter. We all know that and yet within the media world we use the same word to mean different things. Further, and worryingly we don’t let on that this is the case, thus causing confusion and misunderstandings. Take the simplest thing. We speak of digital...
This week’s post is in the form of a Q&A in which Brian Jacobs of Cog Blog opines on a number of matters apparently of great import to the media and advertising industry (based unscientifically on frequency of appearance in his social media feeds). From Elon Musk...
