11/22/2020 12:16:16 PM "Marketing Ain't What is Was" - Paid Media Is No Longer the Only Game in Town?. By Stephen Sumner Today's digital landscape has in some respects made a marketeers job slightly easier in relation to 'getting the brand message out'. But...
7/7/2020 8:32:55 AM Investing in Branding - What Does Research Say You Need to Do? By Tim Hughes If you haven't seen it before this research is the Edelman Trust Barometer and it comes out every year, so you have a last year, this...
3/16/2020 11:07:48 AM How Much of Your Digital Audience is Fake? By Stephen Sumner Instead of getting too hung up on a virus that's probably going to be more of an inconvenience for the majority let's discuss that...
3/1/2020 2:05:55 PM Covid-19 - It Seems Everyone's An Expert - Here's How. By Stephen Sumner We see lots of people who think being on Social Media is just about pumping out post, blogs, Vlogs, and then a few weeks in they start...
1/21/2020 12:00:00 AM Streaming goes mad for video ads - the Fraudsters love it. By Stephen Sumner Some months ago via Social Media (Twitter, then LinkedIn) I met someone who seemed to resonate the same concerns around the massive...
1/6/2020 1:30:08 PM Video streaming, the new place for fraud to hang out. By Stephen Sumner Ad fraud is forecast to rise to $100 Billion by 2023, and with circa $230 billion being spent on mobile advertising this year alone I'll...
11/10/2019 1:54:14 PM You're paying to get people to shop? - but they already were WTF? By Stephen Sumner Let's say you run a 'Pizza' place, and like other good fast food companies you need to get people through the door and order what it is...
7/16/2019 11:28:44 AM "Social media is the most immediate threat to your company's reputation," By Stephen Sumner Take responsibility for your reputation, before your reputation takes over you, or in modern parlez, 'your brand is what others perceive...
7/16/2019 10:42:40 AM I spent my Advertising Budget on Asian Porn! By Stephen Sumner If your reading this it could be that my business headline intrigued you enough to explore it further, or that your simply interested in...
6/24/2019 8:32:18 AM Why you should take care when using external Influencers. By Stephen Sumner In 2017, the global Instagram influencer marketing industry, which is one of the biggest alongside YouTube, was worth $1.1 billion and...
6/24/2019 7:58:13 AM It's June 20th 2019 & the GDPR fired its first salvo at Ad Tech. By Stephen Sumner On June. 20, the ICO released a report that specifically focuses on how the ad tech sector should comply with GDPR — an area that would...
6/24/2019 7:39:32 AM A year on from GDPR, what’s changed? By Stephen Sumner The GDPR initiative that was rolled out in Europe last May (2018) has now entered into its second year. We've seen a myriad of approaches...
6/24/2019 12:00:00 AM Why YOU, not your agency should be auditing Ad Fraud By Stephen Sumner Some months ago via Social Media (Twitter, then LinkedIn) I met someone who seemed to resonate the same concerns around the massive...
6/24/2019 12:00:00 AM Social Media Influencers are taking you for a ride? By Stephen Sumner I was reading this article by the wonderful Mark Schaefer (click here) for the article, in the piece he discusses why industries need to...
6/17/2019 12:00:00 AM Why You're Saying Goodbye to 50% of Your Ad Budget to Fraudsters? By Stephen Sumner If someone got access to your company bank account, then consistently stole 50% of the cash you kept putting in their would you be happy,...
6/10/2019 12:00:00 AM Sell your Shares in Ad Tech & Ad Agencies - NOW! By Stephen Sumner Do you have shares in Ad Tech companies and Ad Agencies? Ad Fraud is forecast to reach $100 Billion by 2023 - in my opinion those shares...