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Facebook blocks research into political ads, falsely blames FTC privacy order
FTC says Facebook privacy settlement doesn't require blocking researchers.
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France Cracked Down on Google’s Ad Tech. What’s Next?
The French Competition Agency has hit the company with $855 million in fines this year. The money is meaningless—but the changes could be profound.
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Bye bye BMI: Pinterest bans weight loss ads in first for major social networks
Advertisements promoting diets or slimming products and that idealise certain body types will be removed from the platform
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UK to ban junk food advertising online and before 9pm on TV from 2023
Prohibition of adverts for products high in fat, salt and sugar could cost broadcasters more than £200m annually in revenue
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Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps
It announced ads for the mobile app last month.
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Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive
Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control?
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Apple and Google are forcing a rethink in advertising, ad guru Maurice Levy says
Digital privacy moves from Apple and Google are forcing the advertising industry to reconsider the way it works, Publicis Groupe’s Maurice Levy told CNBC. The chairman of the world’s third-biggest advertising company said changes to Apple’s iOS smartphone software and Google’s Chrome web browser meant advertisers were having to “revisit the whole way we are working.”
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MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, F.T.C. Says
Federal regulators detailed tactics the company, which settled accusations against it, used to try to make its most active users go to the movies less.
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HBO Max with ads: $10/mo starting in June, and guess what it won’t include
In a first for anything HBO-branded, the cable provider will begin offering its content for a lower price, subsidized by advertising, starting the first week of June. Game of Thrones, brought to you by Tide? Advertising is coming.
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Ford Wants Billboards to Beam Distracting Ads to Screens Inside Your Car
The company's recently-patented idea for in-car advertising sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
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Facebook bans Signal's attempt to run transparent Instagram ad campaign
Encrypted instant messaging app Signal has tried to run a series of Instagram ads to show the amount of data the social media platform and its parent company Facebook collect about users and how it uses the data to push targeted ads. But that attempt was quickly shut down by Facebook, Signal said in a blog post.
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Signal Shares the Instagram Ads Facebook Doesn't Want You to See
Encrypted messaging app Signal has had a series of Instagram ads blocked from the social media platform, after it attempted to show users how much data the Facebook-owned company collects about them and how it's used to push targeted ads. In a blog post, Signal described how it generated the ads to show users why they were seeing them, simply by declaring upfront the information that the advertising platform relies on to perform its targeting.
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The Internet Comes Together To Mock The CIA’s New ‘Woke’ Ad
With a poorly thought-out advertising campaign, the CIA sparked a deluge of mockery.
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How product placements may soon be added to classic films
Getting consumer goods in shot is big business for movies and TV series, and items can now be added digitally.
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Charter must pay $19 million for tricking customers into switching ISPs
Charter mailed false ads to convince users Windstream was going out of business.
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Two-Thirds of iPhone Users Expected to Block Ad Tracking
As many as 68 percent of iPhone users are expected to deny advertisers permission to track them thanks to Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature, in what is beginning to look like a significant blow to the advertising industry (via AdWeek).
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LG is cramming ads everywhere on its TVs — even the expensive OLEDs
TV manufacturers are cramming ads everywhere they can.
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Oatly's Super Bowl ad was dubbed one of the worst, yet we're still talking about it
Many of us are still talking about the strange Super Bowl commcercial featuring Oatly oat milk and its CEO singing "wow, now cow."
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Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with ads for combat gear. See for yourself.
Facebook announced that it will be temporarily banning some ads for gun accessories and body armor. It’s not enough
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Coca-Cola Joins Pepsi in Benching Ads During Super Bowl LV
Concerned they might strike the wrong tone, both brands have opted to sit out.
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