Keeping pace with programmatic: Ooyala’s Scott Braley explains how broadcasters and publishers can monetise better May 16, 2016 Programmatic trading is fast overhauling the online video advertising market. According to SpotX, 23 per cent of the UK’s video ads were programmatic last year. By 2020, this figure is forecast to reach 60 per cent. Better access to consumer data is allowing brands and their agencies to choose impressions more carefully and bid in real-time [...]
Lystable’s Peter Johnston talks brutal camps, moving to San Francisco and building the IDs of the future May 16, 2016 Imagine what it would feel like to make your housemate a millionaire within in a year. Your startup’s software enables companies to onboard, resource and pay their contract workers. It’s specific, but sticking to this underserved niche has allowed you to grow very fast. You have 4,500 contractors on your system and you recently had a [...]
The decadence of Europe’s dismal elites is fuelling the populist surge across the EU May 16, 2016 “In the end more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom… When the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.” – Edward Gibbon on the fall of Athens As I have [...]
Business groups sound alarm bells as Treasury cannot rule out apprenticeship levy hike May 16, 2016 The government is refusing to rule out a hike in the controversial apprenticeship levy beyond 2017, prompting a volley of fresh criticism from business groups who have already branded it a “payroll tax”. With George Osborne increasingly unlikely to hit his deficit-reduction targets, economists are warning that the chancellor could – yet again – target [...]
Businesses fear a hike to the government’s apprenticeship levy as chancellor George Osborne scrambles to fix the public finances May 16, 2016 The government is refusing to rule out a hike in the controversial apprenticeship levy beyond 2017, prompting a volley of fresh criticism from business groups who have already branded it a “payroll tax”. With George Osborne increasingly unlikely to hit his deficit-reduction targets, economists are warning that the chancellor could – yet again – target [...]
Public hungry for challenger banks, research finds May 16, 2016 Challenger banks are gaining traction as consumers want to see smaller players competing against the sector's established names, a new research has found. Figures from Netherlands-based Triodos bank indicate that just over three quarters (77%) of UK adults say that greater competition from challenger banks should be encouraged. A total of 49 per cent say that challengers could differ by providing [...]
Two killer reasons why Moody’s upgraded Ireland’s debt rating May 16, 2016 Irish political stability and positive economic fundamentals were the two reasons cited for a rating upgrade over the weekend. Moody’s raised the long-term bond ratings one notch from Baa1 to A3 and reaffirmed a positive outlook. Despite fears over the implications for Ireland of a Brexit, 10-year bond yields were at a one-month low last [...]
China asks Britain for help to create financial super-regulator May 16, 2016 Britain has been advising China as it plans to create a new super-regulator to control its financial markets, according to reports. Chinese officials are looking to head off the stock market volatility that plagued its exchanges last year. Shares lost a third of their value in just one month having increased 150 per cent [...]
Greece could return to global debt markets by 2017 May 16, 2016 Greece could return to the global debt markets as soon as 2017 if international creditors agree on the latest debt relief measures later this month Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has told a Greek newspaper. Speaking to Realnews, Tsipras also alluded that tapping into the markets would mean that "we might exit the bailout once and for all [...]
Burrito costs are going up by 20 per cent – here’s why May 16, 2016 The cost of producing a burrito is about to rise 20 per cent after a landmark tribunal hearing between a Mexican takeaway chain Chilango and HMRC. Judge Barbara Mosedale – who has previously ruled that filling in online tax returns was a breach of religious rights in certain cases – agreed with HMRC that burritos were hot food, meaning that [...]