Month: June 2015

Masters of Marketing awards

Announcing the Masters of Marketing Awards

Ruth Mortimer

The Festival of Marketing, the award-winning event backed by Marketing Week and Econsultancy, has launched an innovative new set of awards – the Masters of Marketing. The Masters are about celebrating true mastery in marketing and are based around showcasing the brilliance of the work itself. The awards work is integral to the Festival of […]

Programmatic advertising

Why brands are putting their media up for review

Sarah Vizard

So far this year almost $26bn of media spend has been put up for review by more than 20 big brands including Procter & Gamble, Volkswagen and Coca-Cola. While some of that is down to coincidence, marketers think it is also due to the major changes in how media is planned, bought and sold in part due to the rise of programmatic.

Peugeot makes social, not TV, its primary focus

Thomas Hobbs

Fresh from becoming the first UK automotive brand to use Twitter’s Flock to Unlock (F2U) feature for a digital competition, Peugeot’s digital and social media manager Zoe Macleay says the brand is making social its primary focus over television as “that’s where our customers are going”.