Some 55% of current OTT services don't have advertising as part of their business model -- selling to consumers just on a fee-only basis, according to Parks Associates. Netflix, Amazon, … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
"Hi, my name is [fill in the blank], and I now work at Verizon," said a Yahoo executive. Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
Google has announced a new policy prohibiting payday lending companies from advertising that went into effect on July 13, 2016. Google's policy will prohibit ads for any loan that requires … Read the full story by Dan Blacharski
Thrillist is using Facebook Canvas to create campaigns for their advertisers, using the publisher's own Facebook presence. The publisher recently launched its co-branded campaigns for GE and Crispin Cider. Read the full story by Sara Guaglione
Contently, a content marketing company, released a measuring tool Wednesday that tracks engagement rates for downloadable content. Read the full story by Jess Nelson
Teads, the native video advertising marketplace, has launched inRead 360. Advertisers can now serve immersive 360 video through Teads' programmatic platform enhancing the interactivity of video advertising across platforms. Read the full story by Philip Rosenstein
Nonprofit digital news publisher ThinkProgress is moving its content to Medium in the next month. Often described as a blogging platform and social network, Medium hosts and promotes posts from … Read the full story by Sara Guaglione
Candid users sign in from their Facebook account, and the network tells them how many of their Facebook friends are also on Candid, but not which ones. Read the full story by Erik Sass
Google will soon begin rolling out changes to TrueView discovery ads in YouTube. The ads, which will appear at the top of the YouTube query results page, are aimed at … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
I put off writing this column for a very long time, thinking that Americans would eventually come to their senses and reject Donald Trump for the nearly illiterate huckster that … Read the full story by George Simpson
Using the same technology to recognize objects in photos, Google trained its system to identify speech bubbles in comics. Bubble zoom expands the speech bubbles of a comic one tap … Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley