CMA demands new laws to rein in Facebook and Google
The competition watchdog is calling on the Government to introduce tough new laws to break the stranglehold Google and Facebook…
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Facebook ad boycott targets EU as top US brands join
The Facebook advertising boycott campaign, which has already seen 160 companies – including major brands including Unilever, Levi Strauss, Starbucks,…
Digital to escape Covid ad wipeout but still shrink 5.5%
The digital advertising market looks set to escape the worst excesses of the Covid-19 economic downturn, although it will still…
Google’s third-party cookies get a stay of execution
Google has finally bowed to pressure to delay the controversial Chrome update which will see the web browser block third-party…
Data-driven digital outdoor drives effectiveness up 17%
Client marketers who embrace data-driven “contextually relevant messaging” in their digital out of home campaigns – which takes into account…
Life after the cookie monster: What you need to know
We all knew it was coming and the cookie is finally crumbling. Earlier this month, when Google announced it would…
Digital industry brings in over £400m a day to the UK
The digital industry is growing six times faster than the UK economy as a whole and contributed £149bn to the…
Outdoor adspend poised to speed past $40bn in 2020
The inexorable rise of the outdoor ad industry looks set to propel the sector ahead of newspaper adspend, with the…
2019 Review of the Year: It’s world domination at last
As adland looks further and further into its navel to try to work out whether it actually has a future,…
Duopoly braced for new probe of ad market dominance
The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is set to publish its initial findings into the dominance of Google and Facebook…