I'd like to make a case for MediaPost to weigh in with its first-ever Presidential endorsement, but I'd like to hear what you think first. Should MediaPost endorse a candidate? If so, which one and why?

At a time when digital media appears to be accelerating share gains vs. traditional media, questions regarding its underlying veracity -- especially the accountability and measurement of its audience delivery -- are looming. This may not matter for some big marketers who appear to beincreasingly focused on ecommerce results (ie. sales) regardless of what the efficiency of its media buys are in terms of audience delivery, but an update from the Media Rating Council indicates many digital media platforms are reverting to a non-accredited industry standard.

"Some observers may have treated this as indicating that the whole affair may have been a scandal that never was," GroupM's Wieser writes, noting it does not take "away from bigger issues of mis-managed data access, poor ethical behavior and heightened awareness by consumers of legal uses of data, which were inconsistent with expectations and which contributed to enhancing the polarization of societies around the world."

Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, confusion and uncertainty is the theme for all things American, including the ad industry. "A diagnosis of COVID-19 for the U.S. President amplifies these circumstances," says GroupM Business Intelligence chief Brian Wieser.

I learned something from Spark Foundry's new "Audio Academy." I learned that the days when agency internal media training programs were autonomous, neutral and not subject to influence from the media supply chain may be over.

If you had told me in advance what the latest installment of the TikTok saga would be, I wouldn't have believed you.

It seems fitting TikTok's U.S. destiny will be determined by a company called Oracle, since oracles make prophecies that can sometimes be ambiguous.

Facebook is sponsoring a new public service campaign designed to promote its biggest advertising base -- no, not the Fortune 500/ANA member class, but the small business owners that constitute the bulk of its ad buys.

When last we checked in with Dan Hodges, it was last September and he had just launched the latest version of his latest venture Retail Store Tours into New York City just before a global pandemic would shut down much of the world's retail establishments. As it turns out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to him.

After more than a decade navigating the future on Madison Avenue, the former Publicis Futures exec has turned her marketing skills to selling synthetic versions of real people.