Alex Brownsell

08 January 2024 Soaring investment with Big Tech has obscured a decline in spend with media environments in which ads run alongside professionally produced content.
25 October 2023 The platform’s e-commerce domination may be stifling hopes of a multifaceted worldwide retail media market, a new Global Ad Trends report finds.
27 June 2023 The music streaming platform believes that rapid growth in digital audio audiences worldwide will prompt additional investment from brands, writes Alex Brownsell.
12 April 2023 The WARC Media team asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool for its suggestions about a new Global Ad Trends report on the future of search marketing.
09 March 2023 Car-makers like Ford, General Motors and Toyota once ruled the airwaves and print pages, but automotive ad budgets have dwindled over the last decade.
22 February 2023 The latest Global Ad Trends report tries to make sense of the precipitous decline in the publishing sector as a force in the advertising market.
20 February 2023 As part of the latest Global Ad Trends report, WARC Media spoke to Germaine Montagne, Head of Marketing at measurement company TVision, about trends in connected TV viewing.
20 February 2023 As part of the latest Global Ad Trends report, WARC Media spoke to Cally Baute, Politico’s Executive Vice-President, Consumer Business, and Nicolas Sennegon, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Politico Europe, about the publisher’s monetization strategy.
02 August 2022 A new Global Ad Trends report explores the issue of media inflation and the challenge of finding both cost-efficient and campaign-effective incremental reach elsewhere.
05 July 2022 Jorge Ruiz, TikTok’s Global Head of Marketing Science, explains the mobile app’s approach to measuring brand campaigns.
03 July 2022 WARC caught up with Debbie Weinstein – Vice President, YouTube and Video Global Solutions at Google – to talk about the rise of connected TV viewing, live shopping and shifting approaches to measurement.
30 June 2022 Louqman Parampath, Roku’s VP, Product Management – Advertising, explains why he believes that outcomes-based campaign measurement is the ‘future’ of TV advertising.
10 March 2022 WARC’s Alex Brownsell highlights how advertisers can draw on recent experiences with COVID-19 misinformation to manage brand safety during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  
05 November 2021 Zaid Al-Qassab, CMO and Inclusion & Diversity Director at British broadcaster Channel 4, spoke to WARC’s Alex Brownsell for Marketer’s Toolkit 2022 about scaling up digital content, the brand’s role in a crisis, and why influencers and creators aren’t the same thing. Toolkit 2022 This interview is part of WARC's Marketer's Toolkit 2022. Read more .
04 November 2021 Doug Frisbie, VP  –  Global Business Marketing at social platform Snap Inc, spoke to WARC’s Alex Brownsell for Marketer’s Toolkit 2022 about augmented reality, the rise of social commerce, and why direct relationships with customers still matter. Toolkit 2022 This interview is part of WARC's Marketer's Toolkit 2022. Read more .
26 September 2021 Fresh research is helping advertisers to better understand how many ad exposures are required to ensure an effective campaign, writes WARC’s Alex Brownsell.
19 July 2021 The advertising industry has failed to make a compelling economic or societal argument for user-level targeting, argues WARC’s Alex Brownsell.
27 June 2021 Gaming, data ethics and ‘augmented connectedness’ were among the themes being discussed by Media Lions judges.
24 June 2021 Gerry D'Angelo, Vice President, Global Media, at Procter & Gamble shares insights from the virtual judging room at Cannes Lions.
24 June 2021 Lizzie Nolan, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Strategy & Insights, at Havas shares insights from the virtual judging room at Cannes Lions.
24 June 2021 Deidre Smalls-Landau, CMO and EVP, Global Culture, at UM Worldwide shares insights from the virtual judging room at Cannes Lions.
24 June 2021 Kyoko Matsushita, Global CEO at GroupM agency Essence, shares insights from the virtual judging room at Cannes Lions.
24 June 2021 Chrissie Hanson, Global Chief Strategy Officer at OMD Worldwide, shares insights from the virtual judging room at Cannes Lions.
31 May 2021 Divergence in how digital media giants define privacy may cause headaches for marketers, writes Alex Brownsell.
03 March 2021 The steady convergence of commerce and storytelling is driving the creation of a new advertising opportunity, writes Alex Brownsell.