If Elizabeth Warren or another Democrat wins the White House, Facebook, Google and Amazon may finally realise they can’t hang on to their dominant positions forever.
By Mark Ritson
No company before Facebook has had so many users while being so disliked, but the risk of moving Instagram to the same platform is one Mark Zuckerberg seems willing to take to keep control and integrate the brands’ data.
Despite a wave of growing pains, Facebook’s revenues and users are still rising fast. But 15 years after it was founded, Facebook needs to prove it can be more than just an ad revenue machine and that it has earned its place in the digital media landscape.
Facebook’s vice-president for EMEA tells Marketing Week how she coped when diagnosed with cancer, why more needs to be done to help women reach leadership positions and what Facebook needs to do to restore trust in its brand.
From 10 years of Mark Ritson to case studies in effectiveness, the Marketoonist on employing humour in ads to the inside track on Tesco and Patagonia’s brand strategy, here are some of the highlights of Marketing Week at the Festival of Marketing.
Helm will work across six countries and multiple brands to help HomeServe in its aim to become the most trusted provider of home repairs and improvements.
While any mass return to offices nationwide has been put firmly on the backburner, Giffgaff has much to learn from the phased approach it adopted to getting some employees back to their desks over the summer.
Confident brand safety will not be an issue on its platform, Reddit is branching out to the UK in a bid to serve its second biggest market.