Increased financial pressure on advertisers to optimise their media spend in recent years has contributed to the significant growth in interest on attention over this period. In France, CESP and the advertising research organisation IREP decided to set up a working group to look at best practice in measuring attention… Read more…

How has the focus on consumers’ attention moved on over the ten years or so since Karen Nelson-Field, Founder and CEO of Amplified Intelligence, first argued that the industry needed to take it seriously? In this asiCast Brian Jacobs, Founder and CEO of BJ&A, talks to Karen about her new… Read moreBy Advertising Seminars International Limited (asi)

In recent years, especially post-pandemic, there has been a great deal of emphasis placed on performance marketing. In this asiCast our Research Director Richard Marks discusses with Thinkbox’s Director of Research and Planning, Matt Hill, how its Profit Ability 2 study seeks to address some of the misunderstandings that have… Read more…

What are the main challenges facing radio in attracting and retaining audiences and securing the ad revenue it deserves given its enduring appeal? In this asiCast our Research Director Richard Marks interviews Jason Brownlee, CEO of Colourtext, about the involvement he has had over many years in the development of… Read more…

What are the major trends in podcasting and in audio more generally? Ahead of his session at this year’s asi conference, James Cridland, the Editor of Podnews and its weekly companion podcast, talks to asi’s Research Director Richard Marks about how he got started with the daily email global briefing… Read more…

Does television get the credit it deserves for the contribution it makes to advertisers’ profitability? Commercial broadcasters in the UK have come together to collaborate in an initiative which will demonstrate the positive relationship between TV viewers and advertising outcomes. In this asiCast, Sameer Modha, Measurement Innovation Lead at ITV,……

Whilst there is a lot of talk about AI currently, much of it is fairly general so our Research Director, Richard Marks, took the opportunity to interview Guy Bisson, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Ampere Analysis, and discuss a report Guy has produced on how AI is being used in… Read moreBy Advertising Seminars International Limited (asi)

Following concerns that had been raised about the current state of the advertising business, two former agency leaders, Brian Jacobs, Founder and CEO of BJ&A, and Nick Manning, Co-Founder of Manning Gottlieb Media, decided to set up an initiative (Who Cares?) that would encourage like-minded people to look more closely… Read more…

Recently, egta, the international trade body for multiplatform TV and audio businesses, celebrated its 50th anniversary and announced its new industry charter. Effectively a mission statement for commercial broadcasters in an age of multi-platform TV and audio, the charter outlined five priorities to be addressed. Our Research Director Richard Mark…

How valuable is a people-based panel as a starting point for data integration? With the direction of travel for most currencies now being towards expanding their datasets, we were keen to find out more about the integration of YouTube data into the Ipsos iris panel data that drives the UKOM… Read more…