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Ebiquity & FirmDecisions are delighted to be partnering again with ISBA for 2020 across a number of key areas. The first piece of work to emerge is a new Guide to Agency Contract Compliance Auditing created by FirmDecisions which, will help guide ISB

You don’t go to Facebook because of the design of its user interface, its reputation or the quality of its service. You go there, because all your friends are there. Economists call this “network effects”.

 Get these network effects right and you wil

While cinemas have been closed for several weeks now, this has lead to questions about how we can safely enjoy forms of entertainment, while adhering to social distancing regulations. Enter – drive-in cinemas.
Vox Cinemas launched its newest concept

"TikTok says its U.S. operation doesn’t censor political content or take instructions from its parent company, the Chinese tech giant ByteDance. Company leaders extol the app as a platform free of the contentious content that has come to characterize

'Starting today, you’ll be able to browse and buy products directly from a business’ Facebook Page or Instagram profile.
Both Facebook and Instagram already supported a degree of e-commerce — for example, Facebook has its Marketplace and will likely

'France adopted a law against online hate speech Wednesday that will target Silicon Valley giants amid controversy surrounding the lawmaker in charge of the bill.
After months of debate, the lower house of Parliament adopted the controversial legisla

'There's a new commercial playbook in place at Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post since the lockdown evaporated its usual ad market, and it is built around brands showing their utility in the wider world.
Or, as the Post’s chief revenue officer Joy Robins

'Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to its content moderators whose job has them viewing graphic and disturbing posts and videos on its platforms.
In a 2018 lawsuit, third-party contractors for the company said that Facebook failed to properly pr

Euractiv published an open letter to EU leaders from more than 40 MEPs calls for immediate actions to support Europe’s news media sector as it faces up to the sudden loss of advertising revenue caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
'Dear President von der Le

'Giphy is a massive video library, with hundreds of millions of daily users that share billions of GIFs, that generates revenue via branded content. Adding Facebook's ad sales and marketing firepower could be what transforms it from a popular service

'The crisis will reinforce the trend towards brands being cultivated in many different ways, and a new breed of agency is needed with the skill-sets to nurture brands across the range of options, including brand communications and customer, employee

"With freedom comes responsibility. And if you provide people the freedom to use our services, we have to also act responsibly” — Nick Clegg, joint head of policy and communications at Facebook

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ViacomCBS plans to launch an international pay TV streaming product in multiple markets within the next year as part of an expansion of its streaming efforts, including boosting its US domestic premium offering CBS All Access with a number of initiat

'In response to the report's findings, the market was warned that if it could not deliver standards and transparency, advertisers may take their money elsewhere and the Competition and Markets Authority might even intervene.
“We desperately need to

Ofcom has today announced that Jonathan Oxley, Group Director for Competition and Board member, has decided to step down.
Jonathan joined Ofcom in November 2014 and has overseen Ofcom’s important work to improve competition in the UK communications s

'Facebook is announcing a handful of new features that will allow users to show their support for small businesses and get the latest updates as those businesses deal with the fallout — economic and otherwise — of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The social ne

'The European Commission is to contract a study on the gatekeeping, or market-dominating, power of digital platforms in a bid to gather evidence which could feed into the upcoming Digital Services Act, documents seen by EURACTIV reveal.
A recent call

TechCrunch checked in a variety of top VCs about the new landscape, where they’re investing and what kind of advice they’re giving their portfolio companies.

'Not all of them invest directly in what (paraphrasing Betaworks’ Matt Hartman) we might cal

'VAT on digital publications will be scrapped today (Friday 1st May) after Chancellor fast-tracked the plan, saying it would help readers and publishers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Rishi Sunak first announced the policy in his March Budget, anno

BBC Global News announcement: 'We're thrilled to announce that #AroundTheWorld by BBC News has launched on Quibi. Watch new episodes presented daily by Ben Bland, all designed for your phone. Download the Quibi app and get 90 days for free, only unti