Despite honest efforts to improve diversity and representation in stock imagery, the algorithms behind most image search engines – powered by historical download patterns – can stoke the flames of harmful stereotypes and impede diverse representations from appearing in search results. Now stock image companies are under pressure to change more than just their database
Category: Thought Leadership
Publishers’ conversations about 2022 with advertisers and agencies are underway, and publishers’ first-party data is a newly prominent topic for an unusually wide range of publishers. With more brands and agencies now progressing (though not necessarily at ease) with their post-cookie plans, publishers are spending the final quarter of 2021 filling out data template forms
On the heels of a handful of developments across the globe, including new data protection bills signed into law by both China and Saudi Arabia, experts speculate on how the data privacy legislative landscape will shape up in the coming year and beyond. As 2021 draws to a close, India, Canada, Vietnam, South Korea and a smattering
UM Worldwide’s US CEO, Lynn Lewis, firmly believes that “you can have an impact at every single level of your career.” Not only does she have the track record to prove it, but she’s helping others experience that as well. Watch the Video on MediaVillage.
As the death of the third-party cookie looms, the industry has set its sights on email as a possible identity-linked alternative. However, this approach turns its back on consumer sentiment and blindly ignores the need for a mix of privacy-centric solutions, argues UM Worldwide’s chief digital officer Joshua Lowcock. The advertising and marketing industry prides
As the landscape of data privacy grows ever-more complex, the industry faces a slew of unprecedented challenges, writes UM Worldwide’s Arielle Garcia as part of The Drum’s Data Deep Dive. Amid a fragmented regulatory environment, participants in the vast digital advertising ecosystem have been catapulted into what can only be described as a hybrid game
With software makers clamping down on use of device identifiers for advertising purposes, it seems like the fabric of digital advertising is being torn up, leaving ad agencies scrabbling to cook up alternative routes to audiences. For one agency digital chief, what comes after identity comprises three approaches: An “agnostic” approach to alternative solutions Embracing
The Global Chief Executive Officer of media agency UM Eileen Kiernan believes that advertising can change the world. “Who woulda thunk it?” she says at the end of our 30-minute Legends & Leaders conversation, which every practitioner and student of advertising and media needs to watch. Watch the Video on MediaVillage.
The Future of TV Briefing this week looks at how shoppable TV is moving from being a shiny new toy to potentially becoming a staple of the TV and streaming business. Shoppable TV is far from new, but the ability for people to purchase products from their TV screens is entering a new era. As
Technology companies including Apple and Google are giving people more ways to protect their online privacy, limiting the availability of consumer data that help advertisers reach target audiences. Contextual ad placements within quality content are making a comeback. “Contextual advertising feels a lot like ‘back to the future’ in the sense that we have been
