| | | | | | Microsoft is to hand over all management and responsibility of its global ad sales to AOL. | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Independent has halved its trading loss in its last financial year, attributed by increased revenues generated by its digital operation, and offshoot i, and cost-savings in production. | | | | | | | | | | | | | How can intellectual property play a greater role in the evolution of content-driven strategies? Havas Media Group's Damien Marchi explores. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Facebook's Nicola Mendelsohn takes a look back at her month, which included travelling, understanding that innovation comes from surprising places and living out some of Facebook's mantras. | | | | | | | | | | | | | What are the key ingredients a multi-platform business media owner needs to build significant influence with a priority audience group? Matt Teeman, commercial director, Bloomberg Media, EMEA shares his thoughts. | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Daily Telegraph has marked its 160th anniversary with a refresh in design of its print edition today, which sees the former gothic masthead restored on the front page. | | | | | | | | | | | | | William Eccleshare, the chairman and chief executive officer of Clear Channel International, spoke to Maisie McCabe in Cannes last week about the most innovative market for outdoor advertising. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Media companies need to be more clever and more accountable in these changing digital times. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dan Ackerman, head of AOL Platforms explains why programmatic TV advertising is different - and what the future holds | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Media Lions will showcase the wide remits of agencies today but the industry must not rest on its laurels. Four industry chiefs talk to Arif Durrani | | | | | | | | | | | | | Naren Patel, chief executive officer, Primesight, attends a business chiefs' drinks reception at Number 10 (obligatory selfie included) and delivers his son to Claudine Collins for career advice. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Twitter looks set to embrace the power and reach of television advertising in its first UK specific marketing activity scheduled to launch later this year. | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Daily Mail is expanding its brand into mainstream broadcasting with DailyMailTV, a daily TV series produced by Dr Phil McGraw and Jay McGraw's Stage 29 Productions. | | | | | | | | | | | | | WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell has today launched a digital content agency called Truffle Pig as a part of a tripartite with the Daily Mail and SnapChat, describing it as "a new way and new approach" to generating revenue. | | | | | | | | | | | | | YouTube does not consider the rise of video on other platforms a threat, claiming there is plenty of "headroom" for each offering. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Programmatic adspend accounts for nearly half of all display ads in the UK and is worth close to £1 billion, according to a study released today by the Internet Advertising Bureau. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | WPP's founder and chief executive Martin Sorrell has no plans to read Richard Desmond's new book, The Real Deal, but why? | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a story about an old-fashioned coup. One planned with ruthless efficiency, with scant regard for the authority of once-formidable foes and with a determination to inspire a revolution. GF Media's Grant Feller reports. | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's all about people, products and platforms, says Denise Turner, insight director at Newsworks, after last week's Media360 event in Brighton. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Launching a radio platform for Apple will certainly revolutionise the industry, says broadcaster Edward Adoo. | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Internet of Things has been around for a while, the term was coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton from MIT. So the concept of a bunch of interconnected devices that autonomously talk to the internet is far from new. | | | | | | | | | | |