IPG Mediabrands Achieves TAG Platinum Status for High Brand Safety, Fraud and Malware Best Standards

As marketers, agencies and platforms strive to provide safer online environments, IPG Mediabrands, the media holding company within the Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG), announced that it achieved TAG Platinum status globally from TAG (the Trustworthy Accountability Group), the leading global initiative fighting criminal activity and increasing trust in the digital advertising industry. Additionally,

IPG Mediabrands and Scope3 Partner to Enable Net-Zero in Media Buying

IPG Mediabrands and Scope3 today announced a partnership whereby Mediabrands will use standards established by Scope3 to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of digital advertising, which will help codify an industry standard for emissions measurement. Mediabrands said it is the first global media or agency holding company to partner with Scope3 on a global

The shifting sands of social context

A profound shift is underway, as users migrate away from faceless public squares and toward tighter collectives in digital settings. For marketers, this shift suggests a way through the looming problems of data privacy, writes UM’s APAC chief strategy officer. We are an industry that has been obsessed with two unhelpful polarities: either reaching all

‘We can’t be cowed into shame on data’

If Cambridge Analytica had been employed by a large FMCG company, utilised the same methods and driven incremental but meaningful share gains, and then been uncovered, would the concern and interest be so high? I somehow doubt it. The storm would have been contained to a marketing teacup; the fine unnoticed by many. But the

Data Privacy Is Becoming A Luxury Good

Last Thursday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stopped the presses with an astonishing Medium blog post, in which he revealed he was being blackmailed by AMI, owner of the tabloid publication National Enquirer. Long story short, AMI threatened to release some private photos of Mr. Bezos if he didn’t denounce that the Enquirer was “politically motivated