The Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission reportedly are pushing back against a proposal that would task them with regulating web companies' editorial policies. Read the full story by Wendy Davis
Advertisers are wittingly or unwittingly spending more than $235 million on more than 20,000 sites known to spread disinformation, according to findings of a forthcoming report from the Global Disinformation … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
The Trump administration is appealing a judge's decision to block a rule that would have required tv and streaming video ads for prescription drugs to include their list price.The move … Read the full story by Wendy Davis
The volume of programmatic ads that could be categorized as questionable -- explicitly malicious ones, in-banner video, and ones violating explicit quality criteria -- has fallen to its lowest percentage … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
Navy Federal, with a $150 million annual advertising budget, will work with the agencies that have a remit for national and regional brand strategy, advertising creative content, and media planning … Read the full story by Larissa Faw
The audit -- conducted by Jon Kyl, a former Republican U.S. Senator from Arizona, and his team at the law firm Covington & Burling -- includes responses from 133 conservative … Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley
Target is rolling out a private-label food line called Good & Gather, set to include some 2,000 items by end of 2020. Read the full story by Sarah Mahoney
News publishers see an even steeper revenue loss of 62% as cookie-blocking prevents advertisers from reaching target audiences effectively. Read the full story by
Some WSJ sources say the service would aim to feature "deserving" articles, regardless of sources and politics, as well as treating publishers more fairly. Read the full story by Karlene Lukovitz
Browser cookies are effectively going away as a tool for managing online advertising. Read the full story by Dave Morgan
If implemented, the move would be less detrimental to YouTube's ad revenue than other possibilities, such as disabling all ads in kids' videos, reports Bloomberg. Read the full story by Karlene Lukovitz
Interpublic's The Martin Agency also retained a key piece of business as creative agency on the iconic Oreo account. The CPG giant will also work with a "limited number" of … Read the full story by Steve McClellan
Some 110 years after a memorable family portrait was taken, my family also took many new photos so we could remember this reunion in the future. Read the full story by Gord Hotchkiss
The CEOs of the Business Roundtable are committing "to lead their companies for the benefit of all stakeholders -- customers, employees...communities and shareholders." Read the full story by Thom Forbes
"This policy will apply to news media entities that are either financially or editorially controlled by the state," Twitter said. It does not apply to independent public broadcasters or other … Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley
Q&A with Patrick Robinson, a general partner at investment firm CircleUp, who's not enthused about the pure D2C model. Read the full story by Sarah Mahoney
The news that Drew Barrymore is reportedly shooting a daytime talk-show pilot is a sign that legacy broadcasting is not dead yet. Read the full story by Adam Buckman
Founded in 1999, Rauxa reported net revenue of around $70 million in 2018 with a client roster including Verizon, Samsung, Alaska Airlines, Vans and Celgene. Read the full story by Larissa Faw
"The upside is that most economists don't expect this next downturn, whenever it should occur, to be anything like the Great Recession, which broke records for length and severity." Read the full story by Thom Forbes
Out-of-home ad spending rose 7.7% during Q2 2019, according to an analysis of data from Kantar Media released Wednesday by the Out-of-Home Advertising Association of America. The second quarter signals … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
The EU wonders if customer data is enough. Does Facebook really need to know what we have in the bank? Read the full story by Sean Hargrave
'Breitbart' grew 8% to 6.4 million unique visits in July 2019, compared to July 2018. President Trump's tweets helped. Read the full story by Sara Guaglione
Another big stock market downturn over trade issues with China hit media stocks as well, with some broad-based technology and ad tech enduring major declines. On Friday, with the possibility … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
Google engineers on Thursday released their vision of how the company plans to develop open privacy standards more in line with consumer expectations. With the help of the web community, … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan