The advertising industry is largely concerned about attracting consumers' eyes rather than their ears: television, cinema, print, OOH and digital are visual media. And while it dances around issues like how to measure viewability, it is in danger of neglecting what is certain to become an increasingly important area: sound.
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That is being driven in part by consumers' willingness to use things like voice search on their smartphones and the rapid penetration of new voice-activated technology such as Google Home and Amazon's Alexa - the latter could be in four in ten UK homes by the middle of...