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 – [...]
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 [...]
My friend Steve Smith, who has died aged 68 of prostate cancer, was a successful advertising copywriter. Imaginative and funny, in the late 1980s and early 90s he created many of the scripts for the classic Time for a Sharp Exit campaign for Harp lager, which was his concept. His stories all had blokes in [...]
VCCP’s latest campaign takes a novel approach to demonstrating the extent of O2’s network coverage by putting the “Here too” message in unusual places. It’s seen on a sheep and a paper doily as well as a church notice board and a golf ball in the rough. The social media campaign builds on the “near [...]
The collaboration points to a new path for publishers seeking growth in the retail media era.
