The State of Digital Advertising 2019

This year, the vast majority of digital advertisers expect to increase their spend on Instagram (67%) and Amazon (60%). And, those dollars are expected to come from incremental budget, not existing ad channels. Marin surveyed over 450 B2B and B2C advertising professionals across retail, technology, travel, finance, media, and engineering to create their annual report, The State of Digital Advertising 2019.

Read More
Adnan Khan
Rise of first-party data may be advertising’s fall

It will soon be possible for SMEs to rival Google in data gathering.
By Nathan Smith Tue, 24 Sep 2019
As Google vacuums up all valuable data, advertising specialists suspect its monopolistic days are numbered due to the rise of first-party data tools. The problem is not only might the new technology diminish the Big Tech data cartel, it could permanently damage – and even negate – the entire advertising sector, Stitch managing partner Adnan Khan says. Read more over at the National Business Review

Read More
Adnan Khan
How Uber Got Lost

For years, Uber was the "fastest growing startup in the history of Silicon Valley," and by considered by many to be an inevitability — "transportation as reliable as running water," as founder Travis Kalanick once put it. Now, years later as a public company, the company continues to bleed money, faces well-funded competitors on all sides, and investors are growing impatient.

Read More
Adnan Khan