Type Directors Club Introduces Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards for Global TDC72 Competition

For the first time in its nearly 80-year history, the global Type Directors Club will now present physical Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards, starting with the newly launched TDC72 competition.   Previously, all TDC competition winners received the same Certificate of Typographic Excellence.  While each winner is among the world’s best typographic practitioners, the organization felt it owed it to the profession [...]

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Week in Charts: OpenAI Chairman Warns of AI Bubble, US Streaming Services Shift to Non-Exclusivity, and IAS Closes in on DoubleVerify

In this week's Week in Charts: OpenAI chairman warns of AI bubble, US streaming services shift to non-exclusivity, and IAS closes in on DoubleVerify. To have Week in Charts delivered to your inbox, you can sign up to the newsletter here. Quote of the Week     Number of the Week   Charts of the [...]

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Parenthood in the Age of Corruption: Raising Innocence Among Wolves

To bring a child into this world today is not an act of naïveté.It’s an act of courage. Look around. The air hums with war. It’s almost 2026, and we still talk about genocides. The headlines read like prophecy. The oceans choke, the forests burn, and the algorithms whisper lullabies of distraction while quietly rewiring [...]

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HUMAN Expands Its IVT Detection Tool Kit With A New Product For Advertisers, Not Platforms

On the bot-riddled open web, it can be a struggle to prevent ads from being served to invalid traffic (IVT). To filter out IVT and prevent ad serving to bots, the ad industry focuses on data contained in bid requests, such as user agent info and IP addresses. But, given the billions of bid requests [...]

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The new shape of Omnicom-IPG. Down to four creative brands?

It’s been getting on for a year since Omnicom’s takeover of IPG was confirmed, and it looks like the merged holding company – which will take over from Publicis Groupe as the world’s biggest – is finally taking shape. Rumour is that only four creative brands will be on offer; two made up of Omnicom [...]

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Everyone Knows How To Speak Money; Getting Over ‘Imbotster’ Syndrome

Speaking My Language Duolingo is getting half-serious about advertising.  The language learning app has a base of 47 million daily active users and plenty of attention to harvest. However, Duolingo has been standoffish toward advertising, which Adweek reports makes up less than 7% of its $748 million in revenue last year.  Duolingo hasn’t been cautious [...]

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Pharma Advertising Was Late To Digital. Now It’s Leading The Way

Health care and life sciences have long lagged in digital advertising, still focused on mass-audience approaches. But as the blockbuster drug era fades and precision medicine rises, broad strategies often fail to make precision therapies commercially viable – leaving life-changing treatments underused. Tomorrow’s most promising treatments – biologics and those informed by genetic or biomarker insights – [...]

By |2025-10-06T16:14:14-07:00October 6th, 2025|News|Comments Off on Pharma Advertising Was Late To Digital. Now It’s Leading The Way

Can AI Agents Clean Up YouTube Campaigns?

A recurring theme in Nielsen's monthly viewing figures is the rising prominence of YouTube on TV screens, with the Google-owned video service now accounting for around 13 percent of total TV viewing time in the US. And with the sheer volume of content on YouTube increasing by the day, advertisers are faced with an ever-growing [...]

By |2025-10-06T14:12:13-07:00October 6th, 2025|News|Comments Off on Can AI Agents Clean Up YouTube Campaigns?
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