Mark Coad on Mediabrands’ COVID-19 response: ‘We’d rather overreach and give back than ask again’

After six months in the job, Mediabrands’ chief executive Mark Coad speaks with Mumbrella’s Brittney Rigby about handling a crisis in a new business, why pitching has become more humanised since ‘ditch the pitch’, and what media agencies and marketers should be thinking about. Here, in the first part of that interview, Coad clarifies the

Campaign Crash Course: How to conduct effective research

Here’s a primer for marketers on how to conduct research to drive better returns on investment. Pay attention, there will be TOUGH quiz. Welcome back to Campaign Asia-Pacific’s Crash Course learning series, in which you will learn valuable lessons and practical business tips on trending and essential topics from industry experts in just five minutes. Think of

Audit assesses social-media platforms’ progress toward responsibility

From policy enforcement to misinformation, a study conducted by IPG Mediabrands agency Reprise highlights the progress (or lack thereof) social-media platforms are making on brand safety. In an era of rapid social-media growth and a similarly rapid uptick in misinformation, an IPG Mediabrands study checks into the progress social platforms are making, or failing to

IPG Mediabrands Releases First-of-Its-Kind Media Responsibility Audit of Social Media Platforms

YouTube’s Headstart In Brand Safety Efforts Help Them Top The Audit Rankings NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IPG Mediabrands today released its Media Responsibility Audit, the first-of-its-kind, as part of a larger effort aimed at enhancing brand safety and media responsibility in advertising. The social media platform audit was based on the Media Responsibility Principles Mediabrands recently released

Marketers Extend Their Social-Media Scrutiny Beyond Facebook

IPG Mediabrands begins a quarterly report on social platforms’ practices By Nat Ives The July advertiser boycott against Facebook Inc. over the way it handles unwelcome content generated some results, at least in the eyes of organizers, and a flood of headlines. But parts of the ad industry also are taking a wider look at

Inside Initiative’s ‘Iso Internship’: Yanking down geographical barriers to get ahead in the talent race

It would have been very easy for Initiative to cancel its internship program this year – many of the media agency’s competitors did just that as COVID-19 began to take a toll. But instead, the ‘Iso Internship’ was born, an online alternative to the business’ face-to-face program. Mumbrella’s Brittney Rigby speaks to people and culture

Mediabrands Introduces Media Responsibility Principles

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mediabrands today released its 10 Media Responsibility Principles (MRP) as part of a larger effort to balance brand safety and brand responsibility in advertising. While “Brand Safety” protects the brand, “Brand Responsibility” protects the communities that a brand serves, weighing the societal impact of the content, the publishers and services, and the platforms

We Need to Address the Elephant in the Room: Facebook

It goes without saying: these are difficult times. Recent events – including the pandemic and numerous injustices that have been committed against Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) – have weighed heavy on us all. We as a society are at an inflection point, and it’s time for us as marketers to get off the

We will never be the same again, but hopefully we might look similar

There are lots of great ideas and intents being shared around about what a post-COVID world might look like, but I call a little ‘BS’ on a lot of it. Not because I am a cynic or a naysayer – far from it – but because I think we underestimate how much Henry Ford’s nine-to-five

Survival of the thoughtful

As global recession fears rise, IPG Mediabrands’ APAC chief shares his thoughts on how to navigate a challenging economic market. There can be little doubt that 2020 is shaping up to be a bumpy economic ride. When we awoke on 1 January, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was already expecting the slowest

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