In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
What The New York Times tells us about the weaknesses of native advertising
Native advertising is the world’s worst idea and I can’t believe the New York Times management is so gullible and clueless in agreeing to…
Online news outlets, the Twitter mob and Justine Sacco: who’s the real villain?
When Justine Sacco boarded an international flight in Heathrow this past weekend, she was a relative nobody. By the time she landed in Cape…
5 of 2013’s biggest social media fails
Although 2013 has been great for social, not all the campaigns that were produced this year were in fact great. Some of them were…
13 of the global ad industry’s best efforts for 2013
This year has been a pretty good one for advertising. Rather than new trends coming in there has been an evolution of existing ones. …