Amazon acquires AI-equipped wearable manufacturer Bee; the UK’s CMA shares competition guidelines for Google and Apple; and AI models may be learning from each other in unexpected, potentially harmful, ways.
In today’s newsletter: What the surge in political ad spend on CTV looks like for the end user; Mars Wrigley tries to make gum stick online; and Google neglects Fitbit after mining it for data.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Oh Snap! As crazy as it might be to imagine President Trump on Snapchat (although has anything about his four years in office made sense?) Donald does indeed have an account – with about 1.9 million subscribers – but not for long. Business Insider […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Champing At The Fitbit Regulators around the world are taking a long look at Google’s proposed $2.1 billion takeover of the wearables company Fitbit. It’s not a typical antitrust situation, because Google doesn’t compete directly with Fitbit and the company isn’t the leader in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. You Down With CDP? Microsoft is throwing its hat in the CDP ring (that ring’s getting pretty crowded) with the launch of Dynamics 365 Customer Insight, a cloud-based data and customer identity portability service. Data analysts and marketers are the obvious targets for a […]
Google is acquiring Fitbit for $2.1 billion, or $7.35 per share, the companies revealed today. With the purchase, Google gets access to a wearables business that is largely dominated by Apple Watch. Apple, for example, made $2.1 billion from wearables last quarter (a segment that includes both its watch and AirPods). Google will use Fitbit’s […]
Despite being a universally recognized name in health and fitness wearables, Fitbit turns to paid media whenever it releases a new connected wristband. Because Fitbit is a lifestyle product, it wants to find ways to insert its brand into consumers’ fitness regimens – not just hammer them over the head with basic banner ads and […]
