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Santander and Engine enlist drone power for new corporate banking campaign

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Santander is claiming it offers a “Fresh Perspective on corporate banking” in a new campaign from Engine. Using a fresh photographic perspective on a whopping great transporter ship in Middlesbrough shipyard, shot by Andy Green using what are described as “state of the art drones.” Well it’s more interesting than the usual B2B stock shots.

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Getting work is the hustle. Doing work is the flow.

Gods of Advertising

Freelancing be dancing… Forgive the delayed post. In absence of full time employment, I’ve been working my ass off. If this sounds contradictory it is not. As any freelance writer will tell you, the hustle is as crucial as the creation. Unlike fat and happy FTE’s the freelancer must work to get work before he can work. Ah, the hustle. It’s like the fisherman who has to both catch fish and sell them.

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Publishers’ Pulse: Hussam Hammo - CEO at Tamatem

InMobi

In celebration of 9 years of continued success in the mobile ad space, InMobi launches Publishers’ Pulse, an interview series in which thought publishing leaders share their history, unique perspectives and outlook on the rapidly ever changing mobile tech industry. In this first edition, we sat down with Hussam Hammo , CEO and founder of Tamatem to learn more about the exciting gaming industry in the Arab world and middle east region where Tatatem is king.

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FTC Releases Staff Perspectives on Lead Generation

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The staff of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection released a much-anticipated paper on lead generation on September 15, 2016. The 13-page report provides staff perspectives on the information covered at the FTC’s October 2015 workshop on lead generation, “ Follow the Lead.” Below are a few of the paper’s themes: The paper describes the mechanics of lead generation and how it functions in the modern economy, including such topics as: Wha

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Director Har’el launches Free The Bid to boost female commercials directors

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US film and commercials director Alma Har’el (below) has launched Free The Bid, an initiative to ensure that at least one female director is included when an agency seeks triple bids on new projects. At present just under ten per cent of US commercials are directed by women. In Hollywood the figure is just seven.

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McCann promotes Craft boss Lopez to Europe role to spearhead production drive

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McCann has promoted London and Craft UK production head Sergio Lopez to boss of its European production operations. Craft is McCann’s production arm. All the big agencies and holding companies are taking production more seriously now as clients squeeze margins and they try to reel back in production work that has gone outside to the.

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Andrew Dunn of Maxus: why Scotland and its agencies can have a bright post-Brexit future

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Scotland’s media market, like all others globally, has been going through a period of massive transformation. The differences are strikingly clear to me now as I return after a seven-year hiatus spent working in Ireland. Digital, as we all know, is the key driver of this change, having fundamentally altered how businesses market themselves and.

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Are the big holding companies weighing a cull of their creative agency brands?

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Are the twin pressures of client demands for ‘transparency’ – which usually means lower prices – and a slow growth world economy finally hitting the big holding companies? Over the past decade the likes of WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe, Dentsu and Interpublic have seemed to defy gravity in, mostly, delivering higher returns in the face.

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Rail Delivery Group tries to persuade us that “Britain runs on rail” in new M&C campaign

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More of us are travelling by train, but less happy about it seemingly. So a newish entity called the Rail Delivery Group is running a mixed media campaign from M&C Saatchi, plugging its £50bn plan to improve the railways. It features a nifty redesign of the old British Rail logo. This is all fine and.

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Tom Denford and David Indo from ID Comms: the seven billion dollar media man

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On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David review news that P&G have hired a new global media director, pinching the impressive Gerry D’Angelo from Mondelez to lead their global $7.2bn media operations. Media is a massive business driver for P&G, accounting for more than ten per cent of total global sales, so it needs to.

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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Hearts & Science names Ralston-Good as first UK CEO

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Omnicom’s new media agency Hearts & Science is opening in the UK with media planner Frances Ralston-Good (below) as its first CEO. She is currently chief strategy and innovation officer at Omnicom Media Group UK. Hearts & Science has stormed the US media world by winning Procter & Gamble and AT&T, worth a combined $6bn.

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Mourinho shouts the Heineken Champions League from the rooftops – and he’ll be watching on TV too

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The UEFA Champions League kicks off tonight and who better to blow sponsor Heineken’s trumpet than two-time winner (With Porto and Juventus) Jose Mourinho, currently ensconced at Manchester United. Only problem being, of course, that Man U aren’t in it this season. Mind you, that’s why he got the job. Undeterred, here he is in.

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Y&R boss Sable says it’s time for dissidents to take over from destructive disruptors

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Y&R global CEO David Sable has entered the lists about what agencies and business as a whole should be doing with a plea that the industry loses its obsession with the term ‘disruption’ and that real innovators should look elsewhere for inspiration. Speaking at Dmexco in Cologne, Sable (left) said in his “In An Age.

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Ad blocking panic surfaces at WPP media investments

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The programmatic ad wars have taken an interesting turn with ad blocker Adblock Plus setting up its own ad server, seemingly (at one point) with the connivance of Google and AppNexus, which both have their own whopper servers. The news was announced by third party ComboTag, yet another ad tech firm. You might wonder why.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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L’affaire Martinez: why don’t JWT/WPP and Erin Johnson’s lawyers just get on with it?

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Remember JWT communications boss Erin Johnson’s suit against former JWT CEO Gustavo Martinez over alleged sexist and racist comments and behaviour? It seems to have moved on a bit as a New York judge has refused JWT’s attempt to get the case thrown out on procedural grounds but that’s about it so far. Ad Age.

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Location Accuracy: Who can you Trust? Part 2/2

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In this series of articles, we discuss some of our learnings along with a few examples that illustrate the biggest challenges with location data and also offer insights on how important accuracy is for us at InMobi. Here is the first part - Location Accuracy: Who can you Trust? Part 1/2 , in case you missed it. Detecting errors by comparing latitude/longitude country with IP country A request that comes with a latitude/longitude (henceforth, also referred to as lat/long) value will also typicall

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Leo Burnett UK still produces the goods for McDonald’s despite US agency change

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McDonald’s has consolidated its US advertising into a new Omnicom entity, headed by DDB. Bad news for Leo Burnett in the US which had worked on the account for 35 years. Burnett in the UK has also handled McDonald’s for 30 years or so, just about since the golden arches made landfall in the UK.

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George Parker: McVitie’s goes global, the world’s most expensive shoot and me

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Reading that McVitie’s is looking for a new global agency brought back memories of my tenure as Dorland’s “Agency Fireman” back before most of you were born. The agency’s most profitable account, McVitie’s, was about to exit, taking all those lovely fees that paid for management’s dining, wining, golfing and generally f **g around, somewhere else.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Virgin Holidays unveils first live streaming ad

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Here’s Virgin Holidays’ live streaming ad from AMV BBDO that made its debut on the X Factor on Saturday. Was it worth all the hoopla? Hard to tell really. Does this work better than stock footage? Was the rapidly reducing X Factor audience swayed because it was live? Apparently some of the rest of the.

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$500 is the Max – The TCPA is Not a Fee Shifting Statute

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Recently, there have been numerous cases dismissed because plaintiffs have treated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) like a business opportunity rather than as a consumer protection statute. Courts also have had to step in over the past several months to reign in plaintiffs’ counsel when it comes to their attorneys’ fees. Such is the case in a recent Seventh Circuit decision, where the court held that the TCPA does not shift attorneys’ fees or create common funds.

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Mobile Programmatic: A Buyer’s Perspective, 2016

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The InMobi Insights team is excited to release the Mobile Programmatic Insights from a buyer’s perspective. To better understand how brand marketers view the mobile programmatic space, we conducted an extensive survey, undertaken by a diverse group of over 180 digital marketers at brands, to track the usage and investment in mobile programmatic advertising.