Integral Ad Science MD Nick Morley predicts the end of the beginning for digital advertising November 22, 2017 It’s been a patchy year for advertising. Issues that were known by the industry became public domain. Overnight, ads appearing next to questionable content, and subsequently funding questionable groups, was front page news. “It’s been a really difficult year,” says Nick Morley, managing director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Integral Ad Science. [...]
Women in tech: Private equity giant KKR will help 20k women learn coding with Code First: Girls partnership November 21, 2017 Private equity giant KKR is backing women in tech in a new effort to help thousands of them learn how to code. The firm is backing an ambitious new campaign by Code First: Girls aiming to train 20,000 women by 2020 in an area where they are severely under-represented. The partnership with the UK-based social [...]
Gold, Frankincense and Sausage Roll: When Bad Publicity Is Good Publicity November 16, 2017 YESTERDAY, THE BAKERY chain Greggs was forced to apologise to Britain’s Christian community. The reason? Because, to promote its advent calendar, it used an image showing the three wise men gathered around a crib containing a sausage roll. Various Christian and right-wing groups and people had piled in. Simon Richards of the Freedom Association [...]
Was Theresa May right to call out Russia’s attempts to influence Western politics? November 15, 2017 DEBATE: Was Theresa May right to call out Russia’s attempts to influence Western politics? YES – Denis MacShane, former minister for Europe and author of Brexit, No Exit: Why (in the End) Britain Won’t Leave Europe. The Prime Minister’s attack on the Kremlin’s interference in the election and referendum processes in western democracies was extraordinary. [...]
UK Prime Minister Theresa May tells Vladimir Putin: We know what you are doing November 14, 2017 Prime Minister Theresa May last night accused Russia of “threaten[ing] the international order on which we all depend”, in a stinging attack on President Vladimir Putin. Making her annual address at the lord mayor’s banquet in the heart of the City, May warned the Russian government: “We know what you are doing – and you [...]
Manchester City and Amazon: Why online video platforms want more sports documentaries November 12, 2017 Sports industry chatter has been dominated in recent times by the ever-looming prospect of tech giants such as Amazon, Facebook or YouTube outbidding traditional broadcasters for live rights and, in doing so, upending the consumption habits of fans. Yet while developments have undoubtedly been made in the digitalisation of live sport, neither Sky nor BT’s [...]
Donald Trump will not meet with Vladimir Putin in Vietnam, says Sarah Huckabee Sanders November 10, 2017 After much speculation, it turns out Donald Trump will not have a formal meeting with Vladimir Putin while he is in Vietnam, despite both leaders being in the same place at the same time. The Washington Post reported that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, had told reporters the meeting will not happen [...]
Priti dire: No way forward for May’s shambolic government November 9, 2017 Where to start with the Priti Patel case? The secretary for international development has created a media storm of such epic proportions that it has clouded out all the other competing scandals within Theresa May’s cabinet (more on them later). To recap, it transpired last week that Patel had held undisclosed meetings with key Israeli [...]
DEBATE: Can we blame tech companies for helping Russia spread fake news during the referendum campaign? November 6, 2017 Can we blame tech companies for helping Russia spread fake news during the referendum campaign? Olivia Utley, news editor at Reaction, says YES. The argument, which was widely accepted before the UK referendum, is that a split in Europe and a revival of European nationalism was in Vladimir Putin’s interests. It was widely believed – [...]
Snapchat owner Snap results: Analysts to look for positive growth in user engagement and ad revenue November 5, 2017 Analysts will be on the look out for some positive news from Snap this week as the company reports third quarter earnings, with user engagement and advertising revenue growth set to go under the microscope. The Silicon Valley tech firm and maker of messaging app Snapchat has floundered since its float on the New York [...]