Cannes Lions’ Clare Hill picks her best Google ads and campaigns over the last 20 years

Cannes Lions’ Clare Hill picks her best Google ads and campaigns over the last 20 years

To mark Google’s 20th Anniversary recently, we sat down with Clare Hill, VP of Marketing at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, who picked out her picks from the ‘Best Google ads and campaigns over the last 20 years’: Google won the Creative Marketer of the Year 2018 at Cannes Lions because it had distinguished itself through consistently […]

The Trade Desk unveils the ‘Most Excruciating Ad Buy Ever’ in new print campaign by VSA Partners

The Trade Desk unveils the ‘Most Excruciating Ad Buy Ever’ in new print campaign by VSA Partners

The Trade Desk tasked global creative agency VSA Partners with speaking to a wider audience and building on their industry leadership position. Using a traditional platform to showcase the value of digital was a bold choice, designed to make a clear statement, convey personality, and assume a leadership stance in the category. A high-profile newspaper […]

Reuters named leading International Digital Media Brand in Europe by Ipsos

Reuters named leading International Digital Media Brand in Europe by Ipsos

Reuters is the most popular international digital media brand in Europe, according to new research published by Ipsos. The Ipsos Affluent Europe 2018 shows that Reuters now has the largest weekly and monthly digital reach of all 47 international media brands surveyed. The research – which measures reach amongst affluent audiences and decision makers across […]

The New York Times CEO Mark Thompson: ‘branded content needs to be worth paying for’

The New York Times CEO Mark Thompson: ‘branded content needs to be worth paying for’

In an eye-opening keynote at New York’s Social Media Week, New York Times (NYT) chief executive Mark Thompson outlined the future of the publication and how it fosters innovation. “Sometimes, you should just go with your instinct”; a phrase that reverberated not only around the main room at The Times Centre is Manhattan on Febraury […]

The New York Times to launch slate of VR films, will give out 1M+ Google Cardboard viewers for free

The New York Times to launch slate of VR films, will give out 1M+ Google Cardboard viewers for free

The New York Times will distribute Google Cardboard virtual reality (VR) viewers to its home-delivery newspaper customers in the U.S. as part of a new campaign. The media giant has partnered with Google for the initiative, and will deliver more than one million of the units to readers’ homes over the weekend of November 7-8. […]

New York Times Plans to Make Its Mobile Ads More Native, Less Interruptive

New York Times Plans to Make Its Mobile Ads More Native, Less Interruptive

“Mobile advertising as a whole is just fairly crappy,” said Sebastian Tomich, The New York Times senior VP of advertising and innovation. Mr. Tomich isn’t saying anything controversial. Most people seem to agree that those thin horizontal banners pinned to the bottom of publishers’ mobile sites haven’t won many fans. Neither have the full-screen interstitial […]