In a year where the technicalities and transparency issues of media came under severe scrutiny, great brand stories are a critical counterpoint to the current challenges of media governance.

Some soundbites for marketers from this year’s Web Summit in Lisbon

…actually an acronym: GDPR. Standing for General Data Protection Regulation, EU’s new data rules are set to be one of the biggest disruptions to privacy law in two decades.

The consumer insight community is realising some unexpected benefits from virtual reality.

While many celebrated on the Croisette, the WFA gathered 25 leading CMOs together to identify ways to solve the big challenges facing advertisers in the digital ecosystem.

Digitisation has ushered in a new dawn for media management. Layers of technology, a rapidly evolving ecosystem, transparency concerns, criminality, brand safety threats…all are major issues facing global media leaders today.

Internet users rarely agree on anything. Except maybe one thing.

Mobile World Congress is big. Surprisingly big.

In 2016 the concept of digital governance continued to grow in importance within many brands. Previously, good governance was perceived by many as the domain of the riskaverse ‘naysayers.’ now, it is being increasingly recognised as a key enabler of progress, allowing companies to embrace technologies more rapidly.