Advertising: Who Cares?

As part of the Advertising: Who Cares? project, consultant Crispin Reed conducted research into young people's attitudes to advertising, with some surprising (and, for the business, alarming) results. Here, we look at the findings and what the biz can do about them.

Measuring reach, viewability, effectiveness and just about everything else has become a huge business in advertising, with a dizzying array of practitioners and approaches. In this episode, with Route Research's Denise Turner we ask how to separate the wheat from the chaff, and how the industry can get better at joining the dots between all those practitioners.

In the world of media, the last few decades have seen an explosion of channels, formats and suppliers. Making sense of all that is the job of planners, including specialist 'communications planners' like Sally Weavers of Craft Media. But what does planning even look like in a world of infinite media possibilities?

As the co-founder of one of modern advertising's most storied agencies, Lucy Jameson knows a thing or two about creativity. With the advent of AI, is the agency model of monetized creativity under threat or bolstered?