state-of-the-industry

Targeting – Less Rube Goldberg Device, More Common Sense

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Forget platforms, algorithms and data layers, there are low-tech, common sense ways to target that are more effective. Venture Beat just published a cool info graphic abo
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No Brand is Safe

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Interesting fall out from Rush Limbaugh slut-gate in the US. Advertisers are shocked, shocked to find their brands are running during  controversial programming. One of
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Ad impressions – pebbles in the hands of fools

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“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool”. - Joseph Roux Diamonds. Everyone knows the story, they are ess
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If I have my data, why do I need your audience?

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A question: Doesn’t the growing third party data segment mean that online publishers have given up on audience? In the old days, you bought ads in GQ because you as
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New world. New ideas. And more rules please.

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The president of France spoke last week about bringing the internet to heel at the star-studded eG8 conference he hosted (and, oh yeah, we attended). “We need to ta
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Facebook ‘Likes’ – I’d buy that for a dollar!

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We were talking about attribution the other day. As one does. Trying to figure out how we might quantify some sort of aggregate effect from our online campaigns and keep
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Was it just fun while it lasted?

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In the US, the Titans are about to clash. The results will likely be Huxlian. The collateral damage will be consumers & non-titan businesses. And the only one who see
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Legacy Media Cannot Holds its Liquor

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Last month, News Corp unloaded yet another one of its digital businesses under Fox Interactive Media, the Fox Audience Network (FAN), to The Rubicon Project, an internet
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Seperated by a common industry

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We had a great time at the Monaco Media Forum. Gained some interesting insights and great to see the influencers all gathered in one place to ‘chat’. But the
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Break me off a piece of that Big Apple

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This week, despite all that extra security and talk of “resistance”, the Hippo  jetted off to AdTech in the Big Apple. Yea, we know .. another show, more spo
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