This week's Latin American Roundup brings the following stories: the video ad tech Teads announce an office in Peru, rolling out their expansion in South America with a local team in Lima; Twitter release numbers of interactions on their platform during [...]

Today (24 February) ad blocking company Shine, announced that they are rebranding as 'Rainbow'. Rainbow is described as "a consumer ad experience", and the company states: "We are no longer selling ad blocking to mobile carriers, or ISPs." In short, Rainbow [...]

This week's LATAM RoundUp brings the following news: even though digital ad investments have reached £1.47bn in Brazil, the overall ad spend has fallen by 1.6%; IMS and Snapchat's deal to trade ads on the social media platform is now expanded [...]

Last week (9 February, 2017) Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) reported a net loss of USD$167m (£133.6m) (-23% revenue) in Q4 2016, and its slowest revenue growth since it went public four years ago. In this piece, we examine what has gone wrong [...]

On 9 February, 2016, The Times published an investigative article on the topic of brand safety, with the explosive headline, 'Big Brands Fund Terror Through Online Adverts'. The article, which claims some of the world's biggest brands are unwittingly funding Islamic [...]

Landmark political events were seen on either side of the Atlantic last year, with the EU referendum and the US presidential election. Results for both came as something of a surprise, not least to the pollsters who had – in [...]

This week's LATAM Roundup brings IAB Brazil's focus for 2017, which includes working in the country's capital to influence law and regulation makers in favour of the digital ad industry's interests; Kanter IBOPE Media and comScore roll out their partnership to other [...]

Audio ads are beginning to rival TV ads in terms of reach. The percentage of US adults who listen to podcasts has risen from 11% to 36% in the last decade; the number of monthly digital radio listeners has jumped from [...]

This week’s LATAM Roundup brings the following news: Facebook announce Maren Lau as their new Ad Agencies Director in Latin America, leading the relationship with agencies across the region from the HQ in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Nizan Guanaes is back to DM9 [...]

Facebook’s mission (quoted on the company's Facebook page) is: "To give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in [...]