Eyeo Names New CEO, Cuts 40% Of Staff And Refocuses The Business On Privacy
Eyeo has appointed a new CEO, Douglas de Jager, and is refocusing the company on privacy-first advertising tools while cutting 40% of its staff.
Eyeo has appointed a new CEO, Douglas de Jager, and is refocusing the company on privacy-first advertising tools while cutting 40% of its staff.
Do people hate ads? No, according to Vegard Johnsen, eyeo’s chief product officer. What they don’t like, he says, is not being treated with respect.
Eyeo is known for ad blocking, but it’s got its eye on ad filtering. On Tuesday, eyeo, which is the parent company of AdBlock and Adblock Plus – two of the most-downloaded standalone ad blockers – acquired Blockthrough, a company for ad block revenue recovery.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Breaking Bad (Ads) Google blocked 2.7 billion ads from being served last year – more than 5,000 ads per minute – and suspended almost 1 million advertiser accounts for policy violations. Plus 1.2 million publisher accounts were terminated over violations. That’s according to Google’s […]