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Last month, it was announced that global agency Interpublic Group (IPG) acquired Acxiom Marketing Solutions (AMS) for $2.3 billion in cash. It’s worth noting that AMS is only one part of the Acxiom business. The other part is LiveRamp, which was not included in the deal and will remain independent.

With marketers under pressure to contain costs and be more accountable for their spending, many are taking back more control of their commercial production business. That was the key message emerging from the ACA’s latest lunchtime webinar, presented by Fiona McBride and Susan Kurtz of Advertising Production Resources (APR), a global production consulting firm, headquartered […]

Many advertisers may feel like they have a good idea of how well their media agencies are performing, but what if they want some objective, outsider analysis to validate (or challenge) those feelings? That was the motivation behind ACA’s last webinar of the year, a presentation on Canadian media agency performance by the highly-regarded RECMA. […]

As the industry prepares to turn the page on another year marked by massive change, ACA is asking the experts to predict the trends they think will disrupt 2017. First in this series is Stephan Argent of Argedia Group, with his forecast for agency search management. Well here we are again, that time of year […]

ACA President Ron Lund has issued a challenge to the industry to tackle the issues of fraud, transparency and viewability.

“It is the marketer who should and must lead this effort, but with close industry collaboration,” Lund argues in a recent Op/Ed in Marketing Magazine.

This call to action comes on the heels of the ACA’s Executive Forum, where Canadian marketers showed how they are starting to take action. Meanwhile, the ACA has taken a leadership role to help restore trust and transparency in the Canadian digital marketing ecosystem, starting several initiatives, both independently and with other industry associations.

There has been a lot of hoopla recently about viewability and how advertisers and their agencies are demanding 100% viewable inventory from publishers. This is an ongoing debate backed by a plethora of data and arguments for all sides, but it often overlooks fundamental security issues that bring all data points into question. For instance, […]