Johnnycake Jog: Returning champs Johnny Sayle, Savannah Dennison ready to defend titles

So who are the favorites to win this year’s Johnnycake Jog? Well, when both of the previous year’s winners are signed up for Ohio’s Finest Five-Miler, that’s usually a good place to start. Johnny Sayle is ready to defend his 2024 Jog title on the...

Francis Dadzie celebrated for shaping Ghana’s advertising industry

The Advertising Association of Ghana (AAG) has paid a glowing tribute to its former Executive Director, Francis Dadzie, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the growth and transformation of the advertising and communications industry...

The ad industry has a blind spot to SMEs

Opinion Humility could be the the industry’s most underrated growth strategy when it comes to reaching the long tail. The inconvenient truth is that the big guns aren’t paying the bills. It feels like the ad industry is doing a re-make of West...

American marketing company NIQ intends to raise $1.25 billion in an IPO

X CEO now ex-CEO as Linda Yaccarino leaves Musk company

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as chief executive of X after two years leading Elon Musk's social media company. Yaccarino's departure comes one day after the company's Grok chatbot began pushing antisemitic tropes in responses to users. It's...

IAB Adds Compliance Questionnaire, Evolving Regulations Cited

The advertising ecosystem faces increased legal and regulatory challenges to keep up with change. Updates made to the IAB Diligence Platform on Wednesday aim to help the digital advertising industry comply with evolving privacy regulations. A new...

2nd phase of digitising oil supply chain begins

Listen to article LAHORE: In its continuous drive towards digital transformation, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has launched the second phase of its flagship initiative – digitising Pakistan's oil supply chain. Building on the...

What was Linda Yaccarino's salary at X?

Linda Yaccarino, the boss of Elon Musk's social media site X, has announced she is stepping down, two years after leading the company. Linda Yaccarino’s departure comes one day after the company’s Grok chatbot began pushing antisemitic tropes in...

Customer Data Privacy: Why It’s Important and How to Protect It

Data privacy regulations aren’t known for being light reading. That doesn’t make it easy for businesses to become compliant. When one law refers to data subjects, another to residents, another to consumers, and another to customers, where should...

French Watchdog Fines Shein for Failing to Disclose Microplastics in Its Products

France’s consumer protection watchdog has fined the Dublin-based company that operates Shein’s European websites and apps 1.1 million euros ($1.3 million) for failing to disclose the presence of synthetic microfibers, also known as microplastics,...

Advertising Companies Cave to the FTC. Media Matters Sues To Defend the First Amendment.

On Monday, Andrew Ferguson, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced that his agency had reached a settlement with Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), two of the largest advertising holding companies that had been...

The Ultimate July 2025 Global Events List for Marketing & Business Professionals

Today, industry leaders need more than tools, they need perspective. And there’s no better place to gain that than at the world’s most respected conferences. Whether you’re seeking breakthrough strategies, AI-powered performance techniques, or...

Meta Has Gained 26% In 2025, Can The Rally Continue?

Meta Platforms META stock traded above its 50-day moving average and close to its 52-week high of $747.90 on Wednesday. The stock has surged 26% year-to-date, topping the Nasdaq 100 index’s ~9% and the S&P 500 index’s over 6%. The Facebook and...

Ogury’s Thomas Bernal: Stop Looking for the Right People. Find the Right Personas Instead

CANNES – At a time when identity-based targeting faces mounting challenges, Ogury is betting on a fundamentally different approach: targeting personas rather than people. “Our methodology is based on effectively finding audiences that have the...

Mamdani Threat Worse Than Believed

A Florida trade group is using what it calls “the unacceptable risk” of a Zohran Mamdani mayoralty to entice Big Apple CEOs into moving their firms and families to the Sunshine State. Smart marketing: Business leaders are already doing the Mamdani...

Waves of Lawsuits Hit Businesses Over Website Tracking Pixels

Websites are ubiquitous, and so are cookies and tracking pixels (a/k/a web beacons). A web browser uses cookies to store login details and preferences; the cookies also track and profile user behavior. When visiting a website, you may have seen a...

California attorney general’s $1.55 million Healthline CCPA settlement continues cookie focus and signals increasing enforcement

The California attorney general’s (AG) July 1, 2025, proposed settlement with Healthline Media LLC (Healthline) marks the third cookie-related California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) settlement in as many months (alongside the California Privacy...

Star Oil leads petroleum sales in Ghana from January to May – NPA report

Indigenous oil marketing firm, Star Oil has consolidated its position as industry leader in the sale of petroleum products in the country for the first five months of 2025. This is according to the National Petroleum Authority (NPA)'s Oil...

WPP's dire profit warning is the last thing the ad business needs as it grapples with the impact of AI

It's just turned July, but there are all the signs that the advertising industry could be on the cusp of an AI winter. An unexpected profit warning from WPP sent the advertising agency's shares down as much as 18% on Wednesday. Shares of rival ad...

Dr Deepak Prabhakar elevated as Executive Director (Marketing & Business Development) at MRPL

State-owned Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited announced that Dr. Deepak Prabhakar is elevated to the post of Executive Director (Marketing and Business Development) of the company as a major change in Senior Management part. Dr. Deepak...