Despite the mounting pressures being placed on marketers to do – and achieve – more, budgets are still being stretched to their limits. Investment in marketing tech is no exception, which means the business case for comms platforms and apps needs to be strong.

Previous articles have covered topics such as budgeting for marketing automation software and even

In 2014, I wrote a piece calling out our industry for its pretty feeble definition of ‘viewable’. Little did I know I’d be saying the same things four years later. 

But the fact is, very little has changed. The Media Rating Council’s standard still stands: a digital advert is classed as ‘viewable’ if half of it is in vision for one second or more. Run that by anyone outside media-land and they’d laugh in your face.

I actually have sympathy for the Media...

Social video sharing site YouTube is once again in hot water over advertising brand safety.

This time, it’s Mars that has suspended marketing on the platform after an advert for Starburst sweets was found to be placed at the start of a rap music video allegedly supporting gang violence in London.

The film by a group called Moscow 17 is part of an emerging genre called ‘drill’ which has been cited as violent “soundtrack” to gang warfare in London, with rival gangs often using the...

Approaching three months since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force across Europe, the update remains a lingering pain point for the digital marketing industry, with some pretty hefty fines delivered to companies in breach.

Concerns aren’t exactly dampened when there’s no guarantee your own marketing technology vendor isn’t wrestling with compliance themselves and, as found in a new study by Demandbase, more than a few marketers have their doubts over the data...

Most sensible marketers — and everyone but the worst of the worst — left pop-up windows behind ages ago. While that move was welcome news to, well, everybody, similarly intrusive tactics still exist in modern marketing playbooks.

While interruptive tactics can be effective, marketers must first weigh short-term benefits with long-term costs. Full-screen overlays, modal windows, and interstitials, for example, could do more harm than good. They might be highly visible, but they can damage the...

Twitter saw stocks plummet by over 20% ahead of the weekend, following an announcement that its monthly active users had fallen by one million throughout Q2 against the previous quarter.

Announcing that users had fallen from 336m to 335m was enough to send share prices down to just under $35 (they’ve continued a decline since). That's despite the company reporting record quarterly profit of $100m (£76m) and a 23 percent year-on-year uplift in ad...

Google announced yesterday that customers of its Display & Video 360 services (formerly DoubleClick Bid Manager) can now select to only run campaigns on publishers with ads.txt authorised inventory, excluding those that aren’t compliant.

Ads.txt is a standard introduced by the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Tech Lab (IAB) to combat ad fraud through domain spoofing. By adding an ads.txt file to their sites, publishers are able to list the exchanges and networks that are authorised to sell...

Agility is the cornerstone of successful digital marketing.

The ability to react quickly, fail fast, adjust accordingly, infuse deliverables with company vision and understand the customer better is critical. Tools like A/B testing are extremely beneficial to marketing agility in terms of quick reaction and course correction; however, these tools are a drop in the bucket if your organisational structure itself isn’t agile.

There are a number of work management frameworks that enable organisations to...

With another company being accused of breaching Facebook’s data-sharing policy, it’s no surprise that the social network has been quick to act.

Facebook announced the suspension of Boston-based analytics firm Crimson Hexagon - a company that reportedly has ties with government agencies around the world, including Russian nonprofits with alleged ties to the Kremlin - last week, following a report by Wall Street Journal (WSJ) questioning whether it uses data from social media for surveillance...

Amid persistent concerns about brand safety vulnerabilities, marketers have ratcheted up their demands for solutions that safeguard companies’ reputations. Unilever’s Keith Weed and P&G’s Mark Pritchard have been among the most...