- Senate Bill Threatens Web Companies With Lawsuits Over Recommendations
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
The "Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act" would allow people to sue social media platforms that algorithmically amplify or recommend user-created speech "directly relevant" to violations of civil rights law ...
- Instagram Updates Insights Platform: Enhances Data For Marketers, Creators
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
As part of the update, Instagram says creators who partner with brands will receive additional visibility. ...
- TikTok Honors Top Creators With Discover List
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
TikTok's all-new Discover List: "Creators to watch, just for you," features 50 "TikTok stars" in five different categories: ...
- Netflix Overdelivers With 4.4M Subs In Q3, Metrics Change To 'Hours Viewed'
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Revenue in the third quarter of 2021 grew 16% to $7.5 billion, with operating income soaring 33% to $1.8 billion. ...
- Digital Media Brand Risk Dropped Drastically In 1H, Led By Display
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, October 18, 2021
Thanks to wider use of sophisticated brand suitability and risk prevention strategies, brand risk for desktop display campaigns dropped by 2.4 points in the U.S. in the period. ...
- IAB Projects 8% Growth In 2022 Digital Ad Spend, Warns About 'Bad' Ad Experiences
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 15, 2021
Today's consumers are "fleeing bad ad-supported media experiences" and migrating to to ad-light and ad-free content offerings that deliver relevant ads that allow for transactions and other interaction, says t ...
- AR Platform Turns Beverage Cans Into Brands
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The platform will transform the content a brand provides into an AR experience. Brands can add storytelling, social, promotional content and sell directly from their AR label. ...
- Social Net To Launch With Misinformation Filter, Touts A Brighter Future
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, October 12, 2021
In a deal with NewsGuard, Bright will launch later this year in the U.S. and U.K. ...
- Judge Sides With Google In Battle Over 'Passive' Android Data Transfers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 7, 2021
Google has defeated a lawsuit by Android users who claimed the company misappropriated their cell phone data allotments by allegedly collecting app-related data. ...
- Nielsen Repackages Streaming, Digital Ad Ratings Under New Group
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 7, 2021
Nielsen puts its streaming measurement products -- programming content, advertising and platforms -- together into the new Streaming Measurement Suite. Two of the three measurement products in the group wi ...
- Redbox Signs FreeWheel For Programmatic Across Streaming Platforms
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, October 5, 2021
The partnership is designed to provide easy access to ad inventory across Redbox's AVOD and FAST streaming services. ...
- Spotify Brand Playlists: Sweet Music to Millennial-Seeking Ears
The MediaPost Cases, Lisa Singer - Wednesday, October 6, 2021
What do you do if your company is being described as "stodgy" by Millennials? How do you attract a younger audience without alienating your Gen X and successful Boomer client ...
- Apple Delivers The Sauce: Content Is Being Prefetched On iOS15
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 4, 2021
Apple's MPP prevents the use of opens as a metric, but brands can study clicks and extrapolate from that, Movable Ink reports. ...
- Apple TV+'s Consumer Satisfaction Grows, But Churn Is High
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Kantar says 39% of consumers are now satisfied with the "amount of content" on the streamer, up from 25% when Apple TV+ launched in November 2019. ...
- TikTok Partnership With IAS Focuses On Brand Safety
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, September 29, 2021
TikTok made a significant move today toward ensuring the safety of brands that want to advertise on the platform. ...
- Facebook Puts Brakes On Instagram Kids
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 27, 2021
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a blog post: "This will give us time to work with parents, experts, policymakers and regulators, to listen to their concerns, and to demonstra ...
- Analysis: Netflix's Content Spend Grows 26% In 2021 To $13.6B On 'Amortized' Cost Basis
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 24, 2021
The Kagan report projects $5.21 billion will be spent on originals -- around 38%. Previously, Netflix had told analysts it expected to spend $17 billion on content on a "ca ...
- Live Will Aims To Preserve Loved Ones' Video Messages On Mobile App
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Live Will is designed to make the process of announcing a loved one's death and sharing chosen messages less challenging. Privacy and longevity -- how long the video messages wi ...
- NewsGuard Begins Rating Veracity Of YouTube News Content, Zefr First To License It
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, September 22, 2021
NewsGuard will enable Zefr's clients to create inclusion and exclusion lists, preventing them from "overblocking" legitimate news publishers on the platform. ...
- Google Increases Ad Transparency With Advertiser Pages
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Google will now offer users of its products more information about their ad experience with specific company products -- including new advertiser pages. ...
- Google Develops New Self-Publishing Service For Writers
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, September 20, 2021
With Museletter, writers can charge for content and publish content to outside email lists, Google says. ...
- Streaming Content Discovery: Beyond Chance, Ads, Word-Of-Mouth Are Main Drivers
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Saturday, September 18, 2021
Social media is the top-cited source by those 18-34, but not by adults overall, a Conviva survey finds. ...
- 'Chattanooga Times Free Press' iPad Spending Can Reap Digital Returns
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Monday, September 20, 2021
Subscribers who agree to pay the current rate of $34 a month will receive an iPad to read the paper in its app, which also has a version for smartpho ...
- Bonobos CEO: Leading with Instinct & Positivity
MediaPost Connect, Lisa Singer - Wednesday, September 22, 2021
"I was told by someone I was working with that I had to leave a little bit of Micky at the door." That bit was her emotions, something Bonobos' CE ...
- Mozilla Tags TikTok In Misinformation Struggle
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 17, 2021
TikTok is struggling with misinformation. The platform removed nearly 350,000 videos with misinformation about the U.S. 2020 presidential election, and more than 50,000 videos about false COVID-19
information. ...
- Shutterstock Launches National TV Campaign, Rebrands As Content Creation Platform
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 15, 2021
The campaign demonstrates Shutterstock's move away from its roots as a stock image house, expanding the scope of its offerings and perceptions among individuals, agencies and brands. ...
- Don't Conform, Disrupt & Be Yourself: Advice From TomboyX's Newest CEO
MediaPost Connect, Lisa Singer - Thursday, September 16, 2021
"If you're trying to fit in then you're not yourself, you're trying to be somebody else or somebody else's perception of you, and that's not what being human is f ...
- Animal Rights Activists Sue Government For Suppressing Comments On Social Media
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 9, 2021
The National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services are using automated filters on Facebook and Instagram to hide comments that might express criticism of anim ...
- Sports And News TV Viewing Grows On Streaming Platforms
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 9, 2021
A study found 42% of viewers watch some sports via streaming services, and 62% also watch sports on traditional pay TV, while 61% -- those without traditional pay TV ...
- Microsoft Start Feeds Publishers' Digital Content To Readers
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 7, 2021
The news feed connects behavior as consumers jump from one device to another. ...
