The Ad Block Challenge
Ad blocking was front of mind at the recent Advertising Week Europe conference in London. “The audience is pointing a gun at us and saying ‘the way you operate business is not acceptable to us,'” said Tim Gentry, global revenue director at the Guardian.
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Close to two-thirds of US adults are now gamers (Nielsen, 2015) – a finding shared by Peter Jonas at this year’s film music and technology festival South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas (March 11-20). The head of North American games and mobile app sales at Facebook told us the reason the number is so high is because it includes casual mobile gamers, who would not consider themselves to be in the same category as hardcore console players.
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