“Humans, not Robots, are responsible agents. Robots should be designed and operated as far as practicable to comply with existing laws, fundamental rights and freedoms, including privacy.” Alan Winfield
Cyber Lions
Last week, the marketing industry descended on the Promenade de la Croisette for its annual red carpet frenzy. This year, however, something has fundamentally changed in Cannes: the ongoing revolution in marketing automation has finally reached the Lions. The emphasis was on advertising technology which is changing for ever how advertising is created, bought and sold.
Brian Terkelsen, chief executive of MediaVest USA put it during the Lions Innovation, a separate event focusing solely on digital advertising, social media, analytics, data and technology: “Today, content isn’t the topic of conversation. Today, ad tech is the topic of conversation.”
Brandon Berger, chief digital officer at Ogilvy & Mather took it even further: “Our industry is no longer looking toward “cyber” and “mobile” – everything we do is cyber and mobile. Innovation is the norm and storytelling is now powered by technology, both hardware and software. Data drives insights as well as distribution.”
Eye Robot
The force of digital has its dark side though. As ad tech is rapidly shifting towards programmatic, the industry is seriously torn between ad blocking and ad fraud, not to mention ad viewability issues. With an estimated 200million adblocking internet users and billions of unseen ad impressions, the last thing the digital trade needed was the evolutionary leap of ad fraud. But here it is, so much so that Keith Weed, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of Unilever, spoke nothing of creativity in Cannes but used his time to raise the alarm about ad fraud demanding higher standards of measurement and 100% ad viewability.
“There are more bots on the internet than humans … so are you paying for the eyes of a bot or human eyes? Clearly we all want to pay for the eyes of a human, and we need real action as an industry to make sure we get standards that we all agree are right, to ensure that fraud is taken out of the way we buy digital advertising.”
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