Cannes Lions to introduce a category focussed on data & creativity
The organisers of Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity have grown the festival year-on-year by adding new categories that they believe is reflective of the...
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WPP awarded Holding Co award @Cannes Lions fourth time in a row
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has named WPP as Holding Company of the Year, for the fourth year running. The award followed the...
How Mondelēz Exec B. Bonin Bough Is Trying To Win The Data Arms Race
When B. Bonin Bough, the VP of global media and consumer engagement at Mondelēz International, took the stage Tuesday at the Cannes Lions festival, he...
AOL and UM Plan Ads Triggered By Real Time Events
AOL and UM are developing technology that will serve digital ads across the web as they are triggered by events such as falling gas prices...
IPG Mediabrands CEO Matt Seiler: Automation Trend Will Force New Agency Pay Models
Matt Seiler is remarkably on-message. For the past five years, the CEO of Interpublic Group’s media investment arm, Mediabrands, has banged the drum about the need for...
#sowhoknew: “I just put my clothes back on”
After the CannesYe highlight yesterday, today’s sessions by comparison could have been a damp squib. But with the Jared Leto, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Ralph Fiennes...
Understanding Marketing Message Overload
In the book “Information Anxiety,” author Richard Wurman claimed that a weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person...
Transparency: The Display Advertising Buzzword We Only Think We Want
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by...
Singtel Goes On Mini Ad Tech Buying Spree; Acquires Adconion and Kontera For $359m
Amobee, a subsidiary of Singtel, announced this morning it was acquiring Adconion and Kontera for $150m and $225m respectively. The Adconion deal is understood to...
London’s Boris Bikes go extreme in #JoinTheFight stunt campaign
Pro cyclists are using London’s Boris Bikes for the their latest marketing stunt — literally. The bikes, which officially go by the more clunky “Barclays Cycle Hire,” have...
Tango Finds Engagement Actually Enhanced by Ads in Their Messaging App
The conventional wisdom has always held that, when it comes to P2P apps, most users are too busy in their media experience to be distracted...
The emotional push for Unilever’s Comfort
Taking a cause or a human relationship that connects has been big with Unilever brands. The idea can be seen once again in a new...
MediaQuark, Ambient Digital partner to deliver APAC audience targeting
MediaQuark and Ambient Digital Group, both headquartered in Singapore, are partnering to deliver data driven online advertising products in Southeast Asia. The online advertising companies...
Huawei creates global push for Ascend P7 smartphone launch
Huawei has unleashed a mass campaign to support the launch of its new Huawei Ascend P7 smartphone. WPP’s TeamHuawei, dedicated to provide global communications services...
AppNexus Buys Paris-Based Viewability Firm Alenty
Two months after the Media Ratings Council (MRC) green-lighted viewable impressions as a viable metric for transacting display ads, real-time bidding platform AppNexus has acquired French viewability...
Digital animation survivor Inspidea gears for rapid growth
12 years on, cash-rich Inspidea is primed for rapid growth with the support of various government initiatives and its own track record. Via DNA
