Kaja Pryczkowska

Few industry segments have experienced as much disruption as online advertising and digital media in recent years. With the dynamic increase in the use of mobile devices and social media, online advertising agencies have had their hands full adapting to new technologies, new formats, and constantly evolving user behavior.

Targeted ads have come under fire for the past few years due to a toxic combination of privacy concerns, and the potential for abuse during democractic elections. While targeted ads can help us find products that we’ll love, the seemingly magical way that they can predict what we want has unsettled many consumers, and led to very real concerns about how our data is collected and used, and thus the rise of the cookieless future.

Tasked with making client budgets deliver maximum results, media agencies have a laser focus on cost optimization and martec trends throughout the planning and execution of digital campaigns. In this article, Gabrielle de Souza, Media Supervisor at Lew’Lara\TBWA Brazil—a leading Brazilian media agency—shares her experiences planning and optimizing campaigns for global brands and how technology platforms can empower agencies to extract maximum value.

Whether clients use self-service platforms or managed service providers, they must be able to recognize the benefits of marketing technology while keeping an open mind on which approach is best for them.

Marketers are being proactive in advance of the demise of third-party cookies but challenges, as well as opportunities, remain.

‘Talent of the Year’ at the 2022 MWG Awards, Robert Heijmans is an energetic advocate of new, cutting-edge approaches to marketing and advertising. He embraces new technology, relishes the challenges of a cookieless future, inspires clients with his vision and is tuned in to the big shifts in the media landscape such as consumer-centric advertising and segmentation. In this interview, Heijmans reveals what future possibilities most excite him.