Digital marketing might be cheap and measurable, but marketers are kidding themselves if they think it’s truly effective. In fact it’s leading to a “death spiral” of budgets, as campaigns and profits get smaller and smaller. That’s the conclusion of effectiveness guru Les Binet and Medialab chief data officer Will Davis, whose IPA research shows [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 – [...]
