Karmarama hires Jamie Toward as Managing Partner for Content

Karmarama hires Jamie Toward as Managing Partner for Content

Karmarama has appointed Jamie Toward as Managing Partner for Content. He joins Karmarama from MEC where he was Head of Content. Reporting to Jon Wilkins, Karmarama’s Executive Chairman, Toward will lead data-driven content, an ongoing growth area for the agency. Karmarama has a strong heritage in content strategy and creative, and through its production company Kream, […]

PepsiCo Exec Brad Jakeman Has Tough Words for Agencies

PepsiCo Exec Brad Jakeman Has Tough Words for Agencies

Ad agency models are breaking. Pre-roll ads are useless. Measurement models are outdated. The ad industry lacks diversity. And the phrase digital marketing should be dumped. Those statements were among the declarations made on October 14, by PepsiCo exec Brad Jakeman in a fiery, truth-telling presentation at the Association of National Advertising’s annual “Masters of […]

Global Digital Content Spend Rockets to $57 Billion in 2013

Global Digital Content Spend Rockets to $57 Billion in 2013

IHS, the leading global source of information, insight, and analytics, and App Annie, the worldwide leader in app store analytics, app rankings, and market intelligence, unveiled a joint report detailing key trends in the digital content market in 2013. The report includes insights into the digital music, digital movies, digital games and mobile apps markets. […]

Grabyo Studio helps Sky Sports share real-time clips of transfer deadline day

Grabyo Studio helps Sky Sports share real-time clips of transfer deadline day

Sky Sports is working with Grabyo – the real-time TV clip-sharing platform integrated with Twitter – as part of its coverage of football transfer deadline day, taking place today, 2 September. Grabyo enables broadcasters to grab, edit and share TV clips in real-time across social media and their own websites allowing brands like Sky Sports […]

Twitter launches video content promotion tool – Twitter Amplify

Twitter launches video content promotion tool – Twitter Amplify

Twitter has revealed its latest marketing tool Twitter Amplify which allows media companies to promote small video clips, for example sports highlights, which are accompanied by a brief video ad as a pre- or post-roll. Launch partners for Twitter Amplify include the likes of Clear Channel, New York Magazine, VEVO, Warner Music, and VICE, as […]

The GuardianWitness: Citizen Journalists App

Guardian News & Media unveiled a new platform that will allow people from around the world to submit their content directly to Guardian journalists. GuardianWitness, in partnership with EE, will build on the Guardian’s groundbreaking model of open journalism to crowdsource content from around the globe by enabling users to share videos, pictures and text […]

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