Could you describe your product with just one word?
I walked past this outdoor ad in London recently and just one word describes the product. Could your brand advertise in this way?
Thanks to Facebook and GDPR the Personal Data Revolution has started
For some time now I've been saying to corporate audiences in my keynotes that in under 5 years we will not be reading ads - robots will. As promised, in one 8-minute take I put forward my [...]
What Zuckerberg’s testimony teaches us about user privacy and control
Last night I watched the Mark Zuckerberg testimony - it was a long 5 hours and ended sometime after midnight here in London Zuckerberg was asked by one Senator if he would be happy to provide [...]
With 6 weeks to go, few if any firms are ready for GDPR
From my own research, few firms are ready for the launch of GDPR on May 25. You can't wait until the date, as the legislation has been in effect for 2 years so there is no grace period.
The Big 4 Consulting revenue now exceeds audit work – we need to consider the “Big 6” in consulting
A report in the WSJ that says the "Big 4" audit firms (Deloitte, PWC, EY and KPMG) now generate more revenue from consulting than from their traditional audit services. What does this mean for [...]
Facebook without targeted ads? That would be a “paid product” says COO Sheryl Sandberg
Facebook continues their PR blitz to recover from the dramatic fallout from the Cambridge Analytics revelations from a few weeks ago. Facebook COO Cheryl Sandberg hinted that Facebook may have a [...]
Facebook is providing GDPR privacy controls to all – could start a seismic shift in consumer data control
With the news that Facebook plans to offer GDPR compliant privacy tools for all users, regardless of their location, this puts on notice all organisations to rethink their GDPR plans to offer the [...]
By Andrew Grill
Posted Imagine a service so good you’d actually pay for it!
Imagine a service so good you’d actually pay for it! They already exist but we are happy to use free services without (perhaps until now) thinking about how they are financed by the trading of [...]
When an apology is not an apology – when it’s from Facebook
On Sunday I was leafing through the UK national newspapers (on my iPad naturally via PressReader as I haven't touched a paper version of a newspaper in 8 years) and I spotted something quite [...]
Hello Facebook … we have a problem … with the social advertising business model
Recently Facebook has tried to rebalance the network from being a heavily advertising focused platform (with some social networking thrown in) to something closer to what the network was designed [...]