November 12, 2021 IAB Europe Breached GDPR AI Powers Globe and Mail Paywall IAB Europe in Breach of GDPR Google and countless other advertisers rely on IAB Europe’s consent management system, which has now been deemed in violation of GDPR. “IAB Europe designed the misleading ‘consent’ pop-ups that feature on…
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November 03, 2021 Apple Didn't Hit Twitter's Revenue Is Spotify Gunning For the Number 4 Spot? Twitter Flies Away from Apple’s Revenue Hits Many companies felt the brunt of Apple’s privacy changes earlier this year, but Twitter was not one of them. Its quarterly revenue went up 37%, causing stock…
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October 27, 2021 Is Google Taking Double? Google and Facebook Colluded Against Apple? How Apple's Privacy Changes Actually Hurt Google Takes Double What Competition Takes For Ad Deals? Talk about inflating ad deals. In an unredacted lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, it…
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October 13, 2021 The Race to the Bottom Continues Marketers Still Eating the Cookies? The Race to the Bottom Continues We all love loads of irrelevant ads littering our in-app experience,s don’t we? Don’t we? And aren’t they all just great for the industry overall? Aren't they? Well, that seems…
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September 30, 2021 Ad Land Gives Ad Tech’s Cookie Education The Funny Treatment WaPo's Digital Ad Network Finally Comes to Life Amazon Follows Apple’s Lead but Is It in the Wrong Direction? Around the Water Cooler Ad Land Gives Ad Tech’s Cookie Education the Funny Treatment It’s hard for…
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September 23, 2021 The Future of the Internet Is Complicated FTC Coming After Big Tech and How It’s Built The Future of the Internet Is Complicated Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Apple, Google and Facebook really know how to throw a party. We’ve got pop-up ads on our Apple…
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September 15, 2021 Subscription Newsletter Fatigue? Half of U.S. Consumers Prefer AVOD Subscription Newsletter Fatigue? Think Again Alex Kantrowitz, writer of the Big Technology Newsletter and the book ALWAYS DAY ONE: How The Tech Titans Plan To Stay On Top Forever, said that the rumblings of newsletter fatigue are mere…
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September 08, 2021 The Duopoly in Hot Water With Sen. Warren Nielsen TV Accreditation Gone Bye Bye Is Apple Making Additional Concessions? Google and Facebook on Sen. Warren’s Naughty List Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay Sen. Elizabeth Warren is coming after Google and Facebook hard, writing a letter to…
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August 26, 2021 What Will Apple's Mail Privacy Protection Mean For Newsletters? Amazon Gets a Boost from Apple's ATT Does the FTC Understand Ad Tech? Newsletter Marketing Under Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection Image by Muhammad Ribkhan from Pixabay Spoiler alert: It’s not pretty. Many publications opine that Apple Mail Privacy…
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August 17, 2021 NY Times Goes All in on Newsletters User-Agent String Deprecation Delayed, But Soon NPR Debuts Real-Time Diversity Tracker NYT Goes All in on Tiered Newsletters Image sourced from the NYTimes The New York Times is banking on newsletters to continue elevating its subscriber base. Approximately one-third of…
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