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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
News today that the UK Government is set to regulate the use of bitcoin to reduce the impact of money laundering means that this new technology is firmly in the news, along with the rapid rise to [...]
My GDPR + AI post last week talking about how soon bots may take over watching ads for us was very popular. GDPR is the movement, AI is the enabler.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which takes effect in the EU in May 2018 is seen by many companies as a huge hassle. I see it differently. I see GDPR as a huge opportunity for both [...]
With the news that Snap reported lower daily active users (DAU) than expected, (plunging shares by 17% overnight) chief exec Evan Spiegel says analysts should instead look at time spent in the [...]
With news that today (just reported by the WSJ) that Apple plans to spend $1Bn on original content, it is game on in the streaming wars. Disney's latest move to go it alone is bold, but how [...]
Does your organisation use social media in the hope a CEO may read your tweet and want them to buy your product? You don’t always have to aim so high, writes Andrew Grill. Often we need only [...]
