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    If Apple can resist being greedy and give artists and labels a better deal than Spotify, it will be easy to see content going behind its paywall and the California company cleaning up in the music wars about to break out later this month.
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    It's odd, isn't it? We have never been able to collect more data about the wants and needs of a customer and the context they are reaching out to a brand, yet marketers still fall back on the crutch of demographics.
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    Sky Sports can talk down the loss of European football to BT all it likes, but it is missing a crucial point. BT will count sporting success in the number of people who sign for triple and quad play services and do not churn as much as it does in viewing figures.
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    As bidding on ad exchanges and programmatic platforms continues to send CPMs downwards, the "Times" is showing how publishers can prove they have engaged audiences that can't simply be tapped into on social and other sites.
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    Time for talk is done. Google needs action. A bizarre apology that a company that clams to be European didn't understand how to do business in the EU, but now it does, is just embarrassing.
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  • FIFA Corruption Is A Golden Opportunity For Brands
    The FBI investigation gives brands the chance to grow a spine and pull out of a competition that the public usually don't know they have spent tens of millions of dollars on -- or to gain the upper hand as the good guy and demand change happens before the next cheque is signed.
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