As of November 2020, Google will be passing their Digital Service Tax (DST) directly onto you. If you are advertising in the UK that is 2% on top of your digital spend. Every acquired customer is going to cost you 2% more, and that’s before we consider the additional VAT. So, if your current Google […]
Archives for 2020
#BHM: Today’s History Maker, Akala
Continuing our celebration of Black History Month, today we focus on British rapper, journalist, author, activist and poet, Akala. Kingslee James McLean Daley, aka Akala, was born in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1983 to a Scottish mother and Jamaican father. He grew up with his mother “in the cliched, single-parent working-class family,” in Kentish Town, […]
#BHM: Today’s Hero, Maya Angelou
Thankfully not “unsung”, but today’s hero is none other than stunningly influential poet, activist and positive human force, Maya Angelou. If you have a spare 2 minutes today, watch her delivering her inspirational poem, ‘Still I Rise’ (video below). Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, poet and award-winning author known for her acclaimed 1969 […]
#BHM: Today’s History Maker, Sir Steve McQueen
Continuing our celebration of Black History Month, today we highlight the life and career of inspirational artist and director, Steve McQueen. Sir Steven Rodney McQueen, was born in Ealing in 1969, Ealing, to a Grenadian father and a Trinidadian mother, both of whom had immigrated to England. He studied art in London at the Chelsea […]
Managing cookie consent for Google platforms
As most people will now know, websites across Europe are required to gain explicit consent from their users before any cookies can be dropped for tracking purposes. To manage this consent, most advertisers will use a Consent Management Platform (CMP), which allows the website to show a message asking the user to accept or decline […]
#BHM: Today’s Unsung Hero, John Edmonstone
John Edmonstone was born into slavery on a plantation belonging to Scottish politician Charles Edmonstone in Demerara (what is now Guyana, South America), in the late 1700s. The politician often played host to his friend and famed naturalist Charles Waterton, who would often have John accompany him on trips into the rainforest to observe the […]