Entertainment is back in a big way for ads (yesterday we had Jamie Dornan for Diet Coke) and now it’s Steve Buscemi for Aussie telecoms leader Telstra, playing an evil alien emperor trying to scam you with his bungling cohorts. From a combo of creative agency Bear Meets Eagle On Fire via the +61 partnership [...]
Walled garden platform advertisers may not know where their ads were served or who they targeted, and have no log files to boot, but they paid for those ads all the same. And they may have enough info to claim a refund. That’s the idea behind the startup Vaudit, founded last year by Mike Hahn, [...]
Martinez owned the weirdness by posting “This is objectively the funniest thing that’s ever happened to me.”
More free courses have been added to Bionic Academy on the subjects of media operations, reconciliations, and finance integrations.
ADWEEK's editorial team on creative accountability and how adland's biggest awards show is changing.
Most of us don’t realize how much control we’ve already given up. With industry red flag reports now published regularly, we’re forced to confront the hard truth that control and transparency are further away than we thought. At the same time, social platforms have shifted their content moderation approaches, with most of them embracing a [...]
S4 Capital, the marketing and technology services firm established by Sir Martin Sorrell, this morning confirmed it has entered talks with fellow marketing business MSQ Partners over a potential deal to combine the two companies. News of the talks was first reported by Sky News, and promptly confirmed in a statement authorised by Sorrell. The [...]
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Everybody’s looking for deals among the embattled ad holding companies – WPP is top of the list – but out of left field comes a “combination” between Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital and Peter Reid’s MSQ. S4 has hit the buffers, now valued at just £140m after once reaching nearly £4bn, as its target tech [...]
If you’re not a privacy lawyer, you probably haven’t been closely following the saga of California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations. It’s been quite the process of updates, refinements, clarifications and curveballs. Implementation regulations are the detailed rules issued by regulators that explain how businesses can put a law into practice. Basically, they turn legal [...]
