With only a month until GDPR comes into force, the information available to consumers is dwarfed by the advice for businesses. The ICO should be trying harder to inform people of their data rights.
The potential of artificial intelligence to carry out tasks and even exceed human intelligence is vast, but it will struggle to replicate the apparent human frailties that are, in reality, the source of creativity.
Since the snake convinced Eve to taste the forbidden fruit in Genesis, marketers have been breaking rules, but to earn back consumer trust they need to make a new commitment to behave responsibly.
The most effective advertising triggers consumers’ emotions, but brands with mundane products find it hard to achieve – with these being the most difficult to get right.
There are more similarities between gaming and marketing than you might realise as brands tap into the human desire ‘to win’.
It’s difficult to create true differentiation today, but even in online-only industries you still need brand marketing to make performance marketing effective.
Consumers are increasingly hiding their online behaviour through use of the dark web and ad blockers, but marketers’ aggressive response will only make things worse. The solution is not more tracking but desirable content, says Pinnacle marketing director Harry Lang.
Harry Lang, marketing director at gaming brand Pinnacle, looks back on the first half of his career and lays out everything he wishes he had known from the start, but which he had to learn from experience.
Data can help drive the creative process but many in marketing are overestimating its contribution, according to Diesel’s chief marketing officer Dario Gargiulo.
From Unilever’s Keith Weed calling out influencer marketing and other key moments from Cannes to the results of 20 years worth of salary survey data, we round up all the marketing news you need to know from the past week.
Cannes Lions 2018: Marketers turned out in force to advertising’s biggest annual event. But away from the usual talk of purpose and creativity, some big issues such as the recruitment crisis, how advertising responds to the #MeToo movement and cleaning up the influencer marketing space were discussed.
Cannes Lions 2018: Marc Pritchard believes the days of marketing to a general audience are over, and with people wanting to see themselves in ads brands will have to start representing their whole audience.
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