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Making Radio Pay: Toll Broadcasting and the First Ad on the Airwaves
Radio stations as we know them would not exist, or be turning a profit, without the early days of AT&T and a ten-minute talk from the Queensboro Real Estate Company.
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Can Search Engine Marketing Services Help My Website Rank?
Is Searching for "Internet Marketing Companies Near Me" a Good Start?
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Mund Choice Corporation (A New Investment Management and Technology company)
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Gambling ads should be banned within three years to tackle addiction crisis, parliamentary committee says
Committee chair Peta Murphy says Australians are among the biggest gambling losers anywhere in the world, and previous attempts to regulate gambling advertising have failed to address the problem.
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Aubrey Plaza's satirical ad for 'wood milk' violated federal law, a new complaint says
A nonprofit has accused a "Got Milk?" advert featuring "The White Lotus" actor Aubrey Plaza of violating federal laws. The ad, which was created using funding from a US Department of Agriculture program to promote dairy milk, features Plaza talking up "Wood Milk," a milk alternative made from trees. At the end of the spot, she reveals that the product is fake. "Only real milk is real," Plaza said.
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Twitter advertisers told: Come back, but don't make demands
Elon Musk took to the stage at an advertising conference yesterday to try to reassure attendees that Twitter was a safe place to serve ads, while also warning the biz won't bow to pressure from advertisers who want to dictate its behavior.
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Audible is now testing ads in your audiobooks for some reason
Amazon-owned Audible has started putting ads in audiobooks, starting with a beta test for certain non-paying members.
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Offshore casino illegally 'partners' with Facebook to target Australians
A series of advertisements for an online casino that target Australians are being shown on Facebook. The case has reopened the debate about how easy it is for offshore businesses to use the internet to evade Australian law, writes Casey Briggs.
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Blockbuster Video Will Run An Ad During The Super Bowl
Get out your membership cards. The last Blockbuster store in the US is planning to run an ad during the Super Bowl. No, a bunch of late fees didn’t suddenly appear in its bank account. The store, located in Bend, Oregon, won’t be buying a seven-milliion-dollar TV spot. Instead, it’s streaming on Instagram. It will also play it on a VHS tape at the store, then will make the tape available for rent at $2 per day.
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Apple's iconic '1984' Super Bowl ad aired on this day 39 years ago
Almost 40 years ago, Apple Computer aired its now-iconic commercial introducing the Macintosh during Super Bowl XVIII. Although “1984” became a cultural phenomenon and a watershed moment for product launches, Apple’s Board of Directors was against it from the start.
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Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire
Google’s ad business hides nearly all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. We uncovered a network containing manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation.
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Netflix, Disney, WBD Shares Dive With Broader Market As Slow Retail Sales, High Interest Rates Fuel Recession Fears
Media and entertainment stocks led by Netflix were among big losers Thursday as economic data and the latest Fed move has investors panicking about an imminent recession. Netflix in particular — off nearly 10% — was knocked by a report that its ad-supported tier is having a tough debut. The DJIA is currently down 910 points, or 2.68%. The Nasdaq is off by 3.4% and the S&P 500 by 2.8%.
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Huge win for privacy: Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe!
EU privacy regulators say Facebook and Instagram must not force users to agree to tracking by putting this requirement into their terms. This business model is illegal according to the GDPR.
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Amazon to restart advertising on Twitter, Platfomer reporter says
Amazon.com Inc is planning to restart advertising on Twitter at about $100 million per year, pending some security tweaks to the social media company's ads platform, according to a Platformer reporter tweet on Saturday.
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Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims
For years, Apple watched Google and Meta make billions by collecting every scrap of people’s data to target them with ads. Now it appears it was just taking notes. Apple’s advertising operation follows the surveillance capitalism model of its rivals, using data it collects from various Apple services and your Apple account to show you ads in the App Store as well as its News and Stocks apps.
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Half of Twitter's top advertisers appear to leave platform within a month of Musk's takeover, report says
Just 50 Twitter advertisers have spent nearly $2 billion since 2020, and all seem to have stopped, according to new report.
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Perspective | It’s not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse
Most of what you see at first on Amazon is now an ad.
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The ugly story of how corporate America convinced us to spend so much on water
We’re being packaged and sold a bottle/can/box of lies on water.
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General Mills latest to halt Twitter ads as Musk takeover sparks brand exodus
Cheerios and Lucky Charms cereal company joins General Motors Co and Audi among others in pulling money from the platform
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Apple pauses gambling ads on App Store product pages after developer outcry
It’s hard to imagine anyone but advertisers being happy with Apple for putting more ads on the page in App Store listings, but the way they rolled it out was especially troubling. Ads for shady gambling apps quickly pervaded the platform, appearing in the “you might also like” section of ordinary apps — including at least one for gambling addiction management.
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