Belgium. A country of waffles, chocolate, beer, three native languages and a big country divide. The latter has made it a particularly tricky market to make work: Flanders and Wallonia have two different media landscapes; the north of the country has its own fairly diverse station mix and three main commercial sales houses. Wallonia, on […]
Archives for July 2017
Effectiveness in the digital era – a ‘one size fits all’ approach to TV strategy?
At the back end of last year, Les Binet and Peter Field were once again the source of much industry debate, with the release of their study: ‘Effectiveness in the Digital Era’ – the natural follow up to 2011’s ‘The long and the short of it’, which used the IPA databank to examine how different […]
Gone in 6 seconds
YouTube’s Bumper ads have been around for almost a year now and having been a brand opportunity to date, there may be a performance side to the format. For those not familiar, Bumper ads are 6 second, non-skippable pre-roll video ads that are most suited to grabbing the attention of mobile users snacking on short-form […]
New Google initiatives to fight terrorism online
Google faced questions and criticism in Q1 2017 after it was revealed that top brands unintentionally were funding terrorism when their ads appeared on extremist YouTube videos. Last week, Google released a statement in the Financial Times with four steps they are proactively taking to fight terrorism online. What are the four steps? 1. Increased […]