Using pejorative labels, like “surveillance advertising,” does “nothing to help us understand the practice,” says Christopher Mufarrige, the newly appointed director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Lawmakers’ categorization of what is sensitive (and what is not) is a silver bullet. What might be noncritical to one person could be extremely sensitive to someone else.
A recent op-ed in the New York Times implicated the ad industry in many dismal practices, including election-rigging, news-defunding and even inflation. To make a case for the defense, start with these four myths.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rules Of The Game In September 2021, Google Ads switched from last-click attribution as its default measurement mode to “data-driven attribution.” The latter is Google’s term for modeled attribution without preset rules, like that a brand’s first ad exposure or the last click […]
Virginia is for lovers – and privacy lawyers. Although California has attracted most of the attention as the first US state to pass and enact comprehensive data privacy legislation, other states, including Virginia, have been swiftly following suit with regulations of their own.
Here’s something meta for you: Facebook is running a targeted ad campaign to promote the importance of … targeted advertising. On Thursday, Facebook launched a national push that aims to demonstrate the value of personalized ads, especially for small businesses reeling from the ongoing pandemic. The campaign, under the title “Good Ideas Deserve To Be […]
Facebook’s got its claws out, calling Apple’s move to require an opt-in for the IDFA “an attack on personalized advertising” that will harm small businesses, creators and kittens. Well, not kittens, necessarily. It’s just that it’s a little hard not to be facetious when a multibillion-dollar company that just got hit with twin antitrust lawsuits […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. This Is Fine France’s competition regulator fined Google $167 million (150 million euros) for unfairly suspending advertisers for placing allegedly deceptive ads. It’s a drop in the bucket for Google, but the regulatory drumbeat is a bigger issue than the fines. Unlike previous fines, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google’s Turn Google will pay up to $200 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle an investigation into whether YouTube violated children’s privacy law by targeting ads to minors, Politico reports. The proposed settlement, which has been sent to the Justice Department for […]
France’s data protection regulator is going public with its action plan – and targeted online advertising is to be a “priority topic.” The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) shared its 2019-2020 agenda in response to appeals from the public, privacy advocates and online marketing professionals looking for guidance on how to comply […]
Spotify is preparing to play in a very big pool – the world of original video content. The digital audio firm revealed the development during a New York City partner event it hosted Wednesday. Spotify plans to work with producers and artists to offer its exclusive original content. It will also host non-exclusive content from […]
Fitness app RunKeeper is trying to monetize for the first time via a partnership with mobile rewards ad network Kiip to embark on a subtle version of advertising – but don’t call it advertising. Kiip founder and CEO Brian Wong doesn’t really like the word, mainly because for many people mobile advertising is synonymous with […]
Facebook’s unveiling last week of a mobile feature called Nearby Friends, through which it might enable location-targeted ads, places the company in a highly competitive segment of tech vendors offering similar products. The company that will develop the best location-targeted ad product, however, is the one that will couple it with the most relevant consumer […]
The rules of marketing have changed drastically for organizations that traditionally relied heavily on the big broadcast buy. Consider political campaigns, which are placing a growing premium on targeted messaging across multiple channels. The tech-savvy campaign that President Barack Obama’s aides unleashed six years ago was only the beginning – employing digital strategies is quickly becoming […]
Savvy shoppers know this, bloggers know this and JC Penney now knows this: couponing is a national pastime. About 92.5 million US shoppers redeemed a digital coupon last year, and the number of mobile coupon users is expected to reach 53.2 million in 2014, according to eMarketer. AdExchanger spoke with Coupons.com CEO Steven Boal about […]
Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser, must fix three areas within its third-party-cookie-blocking patch before it can be rolled out to users, according to Stanford graduate student Jonathan Mayer, who developed the patch. The problematic areas involve “underblocking,” i.e. inadvertently allowing unwanted tracking cookies past Firefox’s cookie blocking patch, Mayer explained in a blog […]
