New tool shows where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit.

This photo collection of vintage ads gives a glimpse into how the computer industry developed in the early 1980s.

Falling launch costs for satellites mean space advertising may now make commercial sense, according to a feasibility study, but the idea remains controversial

Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.

TikTok will begin requiring accounts belonging to U.S. government departments, politicians and political parties to be verified and will ban videos aimed at campaign fundraising, the short-form video app said on Wednesday.

The filmmakers behind ‘Beautiful Blue Eyes,’ which marks Roy Scheider’s final performance, cannot advertise or promote the movie because the title breaches its policy

Google faces a €25bn (£21.6bn) lawsuit in the UK and EU that accuses the tech firm of anticompetitive conduct in the digital advertising market. The company, which is a key player in the online ad market as well as being a dominant force in search, is accused of abusing its power in the ad tech market, which coordinates the sale of online advertising space between publishers and advertisers.

The Google-Facebook online ad duopoly may be breaking up. According to a study published Tuesday by Appsumer, Apple is gaining momentum in digital ads, while Google and Facebook appear to be losing steam. The research, based on an analysis of the online ad budgets of over 100 different consumer app companies, found that Apple’s ad business has benefited from the company’s major iOS privacy update in 2021, which made it more difficult for companies like Facebook to track users across the Internet.

Apple has reportedly tested ads on Maps internally.

Apple may have blown up the digital ads business but it left enough fertile ground to build its own, more focused play for media dollars. The company is building a demand-side platform if recent job listings are to be believed.

Winton Motor Carriage Company's ad may be long compared to today's advertisements, but the concept hasn't changed.

Watch beloved Disney and Star Wars characters explain how the company offers clients the ability to use Disney data and target particular audiences.

Google. Amazon. Facebook. Apple. We live within the digital worlds they have created, and increasingly there’s little chance of escape. They know our personalities. They record whether we are impulsive or prone to anxiety. They understand how we respond to sad stories and violent images. And they use this power, which comes from the relentless mining of our personal data all day, every day, to manipulate and addict us.

Vocal Media “recruits, trains, and pays influencers” to promote liberal causes on TikTok. It’s easy to see how less-benign actors could use their model. 

The advertising market was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but it came back with a vengeance in 2021, reaching record highs and surpassing pre-pandemic levels. However, growth in the global ad market is being threatened in 2022, as economists warn a recession could be around the corner.

“We have spent the past two years strengthening and enhancing our processes, systems and tools to responsibly validate and review this content”

Irish Council on Civil Liberties said this is first time the scope of real-time bidding is being measured

Advertisers—and shady ad middlemen—are paying to violate your privacy hundreds of times every day you're online.

Google's campaign to crack down on advertising violations resulted in sweeping removals and account suspensions. On Wednesday, the company shared its 2021 Ads Safety Report, revealing that it eliminated 3.4 billion ads, restricted over 5.7 billion ads and suspended more than 5.6 million advertiser accounts.

Online health information is terrible. How can we fix it?