- Zoom Agrees To $85 Million Settlement Over Encryption, Data Sharing And Zoombombing
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Video-conferencing service Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of wide-ranging security and privacy lapses. ...
- Be Bold, Relentless & Authentic: An Innovator's Path to Success
MediaPost Connect, Lisa Singer -
"Why do you always have to change things?" Avocados From Mexico's VP of marketing & innovation, Ivonne Kinser, was asked that by a boss early on in her career. S ...
- Substack Acquires Letter, Newsletter Platform With Several Top Writers
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 29, 2021
"What you read matters -- and the determination to nurture a media ecosystem that can advance the quality of conversation," Substack says in a blog post. ...
- DoubleVerify Adds Brand-Safety Solution To YouTube, Offers Turnkey Safety-Floor Option
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Advertisers can now use brand-safety floor controls and suitability tiers on YouTube, Facebook and many other digital channels. ...
- Pinterest Gives Creators A Way To Generate Revenue From Shoppable Pins
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Pinterest wooed influencers Tuesday, announcing ways for content creators to generate revenue by promoting items across the site. It added support for affiliate links to give creators a slice ...
- TikTok Live Expands With Discovery, 200-Keyword Filter Feature
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Features including the ability to go live with co-hosts, hold Q&As and improve keyword filters make TikTok LIVE more competitive with platforms like Instagram Live. Go LIVE Together gives t ...
- Texas Probe Of Twitter Over Trump Ban Violates First Amendment, Civil Rights Groups Argue
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 26, 2021
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's probe of Twitter's editorial decisions "inflicted injury from the moment it was announced," a coalition of civil rights groups is telling a federal appellate c ...
- Ad Fontes TV Reliability, Bias Ratings Launches, Former CBS TV Prez Appointed To Board
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, July 25, 2021
Former CBS television network president Elizabeth Tumulty and several other key execs join the board of directors to help reduce bias and improve reliability of content. ...
- Google Rolls Out Spam-Blocking Feature In Google Drive
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, July 26, 2021
The spam-blocking tool, announced two years ago, enables users to block other users with no admin control. ...
- Apple, Google, Facebook: Regulation Roller Coaster Could Lead To China-Like Moves In U.S.
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 26, 2021
"We're on the verge of having platforms and companies so powerful and so influential in the political process that they're ungovernable," Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer told Bloomberg. He expec ...
- Outbrain Starts Trading On Nasdaq
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 23, 2021
Outbrain made 8 million shares available in its IPO. If it sells all for $20 each it will raise $160 million. The offering is expected to close on July 2 ...
- Appeals Court Confirms Vimeo Victory In Suit By 'Former Homosexual'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 22, 2021
An appeals court has reaffirmed its earlier ruling that "former homosexual" James Domen can't proceed with claims that Vimeo violated anti-discrimination laws by removing his videos touting gay conversion thera ...
- Duck With Apple: Email Tracking Blockers Have A Central Flaw
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 23, 2021
DuckDuckGo offers an anti-tracking service, but a report says that tool, and Apple's iOS 15, allow link-click tracking. ...
- How Marketers Can Save Millions Of Dollars In CTV: 3 Lessons From Paid Search, Programmatic
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Jason Fairchild - Wednesday, July 21, 2021
As marketers look toward the brave world of CTV advertising, they can bring lessons from their digital ad experiences -- particularly in the area of search. ...
- Google Shows Marketers What Organic Search Traffic Declines Look Like
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Google search advocate Daniel Waisberg categorizes various types of website organic traffic declines and explains the concept in a post. ...
- Google Ads: 3 Strikes And You're Out
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Google has begun piloting a three-strike penalty protocol aimed at accounts that repeatedly violate ad policies. No doubt it's a takeoff from California's three-strike law, now defunct. ...
- Beauty Brands Losing Organic Search Traffic To Publishers, Informational Websites
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Among the top 22 market-share holders in skincare, 17 are publishers or informational websites -- capturing 62.34% of available search traffic. ...
- Google's New Way To Optimize Videos For Search
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 19, 2021
Publishers of video content can now use the SeekToAction markup language to identify key moments that allow searchers to navigate directly to certain video segments such as in a bo ...
- Sinclair Spins Off Digital Arm, Will Operate As Stand-Alone MarTech Services Company
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Compulse, known as the digital arm of Sinclair Broadcasting Group, on Tuesday plans to announce its transition into a stand-alone omnichannel marTech and managed services company to power and suppo ...
- Trump Sues Social Platforms For 'Censoring' Him
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Former President Donald Trump has sued Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for allegedly violating the First Amendment by suspending his account after the January 6 riot in Washington, D.C. ...
- States Sue Google Over Play Store Policies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Attorneys general from 36 states and the District of Columbia have brought a new antitrust lawsuit against Google over its app store policies. ...
- Brands Show Heightened Interest In Personalized Content, 'Opt-Out' Too
MediaDailyNews, Michael McLaren - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
In this week's analysis of Bombora's Company Surge data, "real-time personalization," "brand voice," and "content personalization" were among the top five trending topics among the MediaPost 500. ...
- IOP Publishing Joins DIMPACT In Bid To Manage Its Digital Carbon Footprint
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 2, 2021
DIMPACT helps digital content providers measure the greenhouse gas emissions they cause. ...
- Worldwide Streaming Revenue Hits $71 Billion, U.S. Revenues At $32 Billion
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 2, 2021
Revenues are expected to climb 16% next year, 12% in 2023, 9% in 2024, and 7% in 2025. ...
- Google Tests Seller Ratings In Organic Search
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 1, 2021
Google has begun testing an organic search feature that serves business seller ratings in regular search snippets. The company already uses this rating feature with paid ads. ...
- LinkedIn Data Breach Exposes Inferred Salaries
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 30, 2021
A massive LinkedIn data breach has exposed data on 700 million users -- 92% of the total audience. The data, including inferred salaries on some, is available on the da ...
- Comcast Working On Smart TVs, Mulling Roku Buy, Other Streaming Expansion Options: Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, June 24, 2021
CEO Brian Roberts is also reportedly prepared to increase spending on content for Peacock significantly to accelerate its subscriptions growth. ...
- Entertainment Lions Recognize Long-Form Content, Signaling Attention Spans Are Not Eroding
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, June 23, 2021
In defiance of conventional ad industry wisdom about consumers' increasingly shortened attention spans, this year's Entertainment Lions winners were full of long-form content examples. ...
- DC Comics Reverses Trend: Extends Digital Magazine To Print
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 22, 2021
The publisher says "DC Connects" will be offered for free in comic stores starting June 29. ...
- Off-The-Rack Personalization: Ecommerce Brands Lagging Despite Shopper Demands
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 21, 2021
Only 13% of firms provide a completely personalized experience, Netcore reports. ...
