I guess we have to talk about Facebook first. I was astonished to catch a recent Facebook Live broadcast in which Vice President Global Marketing Solutions Carolyn Everson hosted a … Read the full story by Maarten Albarda

Years of avoiding their fair share of tax means a 3% sales tax is a necessary last alternative. Read the full story by Sean Hargrave

TV advertising can be made much better: better for brands, for networks, for viewers. But this won't happen until TV advertisers speak directly to TV ad sellers. With a new … Read the full story by Dave Morgan

Google is working to build out a distributed digital ledger built on blockchain technology that will allow third parties such as publishers and advertisers to post and securely verify advertising … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

"The privacy and personal, sensitive information of 50 million people is now at high risk for identity theft and compromise, and will continue to be at risk," Maryland resident Lauren … Read the full story by Wendy Davis

Sales and marketing are people-oriented businesses built on relationships. Unfortunately, a lot of these relationships are "fake," meaning your associates don't have much interest in you as a person, but … Read the full story by Cory Treffiletti

If advanced audience-targeting platform Cambridge Analytica was -- as critics have charged -- used as a form of "weaponized propaganda" during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, then Facebook was its … Read the full story by Joe Mandese

A state bill in California wants to push public schools to teach students how to identify fake news -- as well as understanding growing digital citizenship and media literacy. Read the full story by Wayne Friedman

The Media Rating Council is looking at raising the bar on video ad impressions to "100%" viewable, and has issued an RFP for research to support it, as well as … Read the full story by Joe Mandese

Cities are perhaps the best example of how complex adaptive systems can work in the real world. As the world becomes a more complex and connected place, they may be … Read the full story by Gord Hotchkiss

Question-and-answer site Quora has expanded its advertising platform with List Match Audiences, a new advertising feature that helps marketers target Quora users via their email address. Read the full story by Jess Nelson

The transformation of television into a fractured platform with hundreds of shows seeking loyal niche audiences means we no longer have a common TV culture, but it does give us … Read the full story by Gary Holmes

"Cambridge Analytica was able to use Facebook-developed and marketed tools to weaponize detailed psychological profiles against tens of millions of Americans," Sen. Ron Wyden says. Read the full story by Wendy Davis

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman arrived at SXSW with a difficult mission. Having just been drawn into the federal government's Russian election investigation, he was anxious to be open and transparent, … Read the full story by Steven Rosenbaum

Publishers working with Google that target ads to European consumers will gain a way to serve non-personalized ads before the General Data Protection Regulation privacy rules goes into effect May … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

"We are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline," Craigslist stated Friday. "Hopefully we can bring them back some day." Read the full story by Wendy Davis