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Twitter Unveils Its Political Ad Ban Policy – With Scant Details On Enforcement

Jack Dorsey was clearly enjoying himself when we tweeted at the end of October about Twitter’s plan to ban political advertising on the platform. But Twitter released its guidelines on Friday for what that will mean in practice, and although Twitter’s policy, which is set to go into effect on Nov. 22, does what it... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // November 15th, 2019 //
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Limits On Targeting Hurt Revenue – Just Look At Twitter’s Unfortunate Q3 Earnings

Twitter’s stock fell like a lead balloon Thursday morning – down as much as 20% in pre-market trading – after reporting an anemic third quarter. According to Twitter, revenue took a hit in Q3 thanks to a bit of seasonality in July and August and a few ad product-related “bugs” that it’s working to fix.... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // October 24th, 2019 //
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Zuck In DC: Facebook On Track To Ban Discriminatory Housing, Job And Credit Ads By Year’s End

On the menu in Washington, DC, today: Mark Zuckerberg, served skewered and moderately grilled by House reps during a hearing on Facebook’s impact on the financial services and housing sectors. Most of the questions he faced were skeptical queries about the potential pitfalls of Facebook’s attempted foray into cryptocurrency with Libra, which Rep. Brad Sherman,... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // October 23rd, 2019 //
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Instagram Is Exposed To The Same Ad Targeting Headwinds Buffeting Facebook

Facebook has warned investors to expect a pronounced revenue slowdown in the second half of the year and into 2020 thanks to “ad targeting-related headwinds.” And Instagram can expect to weather the same challenges. Instagram has been a growth driver for Facebook, both in terms of engagement and ad spend. The two share data between... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // September 9th, 2019 //
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Facebook’s Third-Party Data Clearing Tool Is Finally Going Live (But Not In The United States Yet)

After more than a year of tinkering, Facebook is rolling out a long-promised tool that lets users see the data about them that third-party apps and websites pass to Facebook, and then decouple that data from their Facebook account. Starting Tuesday, users in Ireland, South Korea and Spain will be able to access the feature,... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // August 20th, 2019 //
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Shattering Ad Targeting’s Glass Ceiling

"Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rachel Gantz, SVP, commercial, at Comscore. Time’s up. #MeToo. Equal pay. This is the world many of us proudly live in. Gender identity and norms have become more fluid and... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // July 12th, 2019 //
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The NFL Tackles Targeting With An Assist From Adobe

National Football League players train during the offseason – and so does the NFL’s marketing team. From January through July, Aaron Jones, the NFL’s director for club and international marketing, is busily stress-testing his marketing stack and experimenting with new tools to prepare for August and September, when it’s all about activation. “Then, it’s like Black... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // March 26th, 2019 //
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Zuck’s Privacy Manifesto Is ‘Business As Usual’ For Advertisers

Mark Zuckerberg penned a lengthy post last week laying out Facebook’s vision for a “privacy-focused” future – but it’s not going to change Facebook’s business model. Although Zuckerberg expends a lot of ink on the importance of data security and protecting messaging with end-to-end encryption, he doesn’t mention the interest and user-related data that powers Facebook’s... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // March 12th, 2019 //
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Facebook Eliminates 5,000 Ad Targeting Options To Pull The Plug On Prejudice

Advertisers that want to exclude people interested in “Passover,” “Native American culture” or “evangelism” from seeing a campaign on Facebook will soon be out of luck. On Tuesday, Facebook said it’s planning to remove more than 5,000 ad targeting parameters that could be used to discriminate against minority groups. The targeting options will be unavailable... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // August 21st, 2018 //
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Here’s How Facebook Is Getting Ready For GDPR

With Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation taking effect May 25, Facebook must alter some of its business practices regardless of any fallout due to the Cambridge Analytica debacle. The Cambridge Analytica revelations merely behoove Facebook to move faster and fix things in light of macro privacy changes hitting the EU. The most recent example is... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // April 3rd, 2018 //
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