- Target, MTV Separate Church And State
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 13, 2020
Target and MTV have added to their "blocklist" to keep their ads from serving up next to articles that mention "Breonna Taylor" and "George Floyd" and the word "protests." ...
- After 'Disappointing' Meeting With Facebook Execs, Organizers Urge Continued Ad Boycott
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, July 7, 2020
#StopHateForProfit organizers say it's now clear that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his senior executives have no intention of taking the stronger measures against hate content that they have laid out. ...
- Just-Released Civil Rights Audit Of Facebook Called 'Damning'
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, July 8, 2020
After two years of work, the independent auditors say Facebook Inc. has made progress, but are particularly critical of its failure to curb hate speech by politicians, and of its ...
- Amazon, Google, Facebook To Face New EU Legislation On Content, Competition, Taxes
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, July 5, 2020
The goal is to quash anticompetitive behavior in companies such as Google, Amazon and Facebook. It would make the companies pay more taxes and take more responsibility for illegal content ...
- In July, All Of Facebook Will Be 'Brand Unsafe'
MediaDailyNews, Kevin Lee - Monday, June 29, 2020
I recommend that all advertisers and marketers conduct a cost-benefit analysis for July and make a conscious decision whether Facebook and the other social media platforms need to take on ...
- Suddenly, Advertisers Are Concerned About The Adjacency Of Their Messages
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Monday, June 29, 2020
Question for the ad biz: Does environment or adjacency really have a bearing on the effectiveness of advertising? ...
- Justice Department Plans To Weaken Protection For Internet Companies Including Google, YouTube, Facebook
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 17, 2020
The Justice Department plans to propose changes to a law that protects tech companies from being held liable for the content of people's posts on their platforms. ...
- Facebook To Enable Political Ad Opt Outs, Help Register Voters
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, June 17, 2020
The new initiatives, intended to diffuse criticism about Facebook's refusal to remove false political content or ads from the platform, were announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a "USA Today" ...
- Scramble For Real-Time Advertising Returns As Brands Insist On Quick Pivots
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 11, 2020
Marketers are avoiding media that requires a long process to create and complete, and want the ability to dynamically change the message. Brands are talking about reducing the time to ...
- YouTube Pledges $100M Fund To Black Creators To Develop Content
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 11, 2020
YouTube will host a live-stream fundraising event, with donations benefiting the Equal Justice Initiative, and throughout June, YouTube's Spotlight channel will highlight racial justice issues, including the latest perspectives from ...
- Will New Pay TV Distributors Face Content Problems?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, June 12, 2020
Roku won't drop OANN, which has been peddling conspiracy theories. Previously, the company did drop 'InfoWars,' due to controversial news stories. ...
- Most Sports Fans Worldwide Have Pay TV, More Than Half Also Watch On Pirated Platforms
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 4, 2020
Of those who watch pirated sports content, 42% view it on a daily basis. Limited local sports TV access is a main reason, an international study by Ampere Analysis for ...
- Why Twitter's Bar Should Be Higher For World Leaders, Not Lower
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Twitter has its rule-making backwards. It is precisely because they hold so much power that world leaders should be held to an even higher standard to be allowed to publish ...
- Facebook Staff Stage Virtual Walkout, Asserting Trump Uses Account To Incite Violence
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Facebook employees have taken issue with the company's lopsided content policies in the past, but this is the first official protest they have staged. ...
- WSJ Identifies Thousands Of Links On Google That Vanished
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 15, 2020
A copyright claim citing a 1998 law led Google to make unfavorable articles vanish. ...
- Consenting Adults? EU Data Board Says You Can't Use Cookie Walls To Drive Consent
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, May 6, 2020
You can't infer consent from the act of scrolling -- and email permission must be explicit, the European Data Protection Board says -- adding that people must be offered "control" ...
- YouTube Re-Signs PewDiePie In Exclusion Partnership
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Controversial video-game vlogger PewDiePie just signed an exclusive livestreaming deal with YouTube, "Variety" reports. ...
- How Brands Can #BackNotBlock Publishers
London Blog, Jessica King - Friday, May 1, 2020
Would you really not want your brand name appearing next to an article about Captain Tom's remarkable story? ...
- Google Blocked 100 Bad Ads Per Second In 2019
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 30, 2020
Google released its 2019 transparency report Thursday, outlining its actions to stop fraudulent online activities and protect advertisers, publishers and people searching for information. ...
- Is Rising 'Blacklisting' Hurting TV News Networks?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, April 17, 2020
Some TV advertisers don't want their messages running near COVID-19 news stories. ...
- Google Prevails In Battle With Prager Over 'Censored' Clips
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 26, 2020
A federal appellate court ruled that Google isn't bound by the First Amendment's prohibition on censorship. ...
- Slain Journalist's Father Brings FTC Complaint Against YouTube
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 20, 2020
In a complaint filed Thursday, Andy Parker alleges that Google dupes consumers by stating in the terms of service that it bans violent content, but failing to proactively police the ...
- TikTok To Launch Parental Controls
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, February 20, 2020
TikTok is launching parental controls to allow limits to be placed on what type of content children have access to, according to "ITV News." ...
- UK Has Lowest Digital Content Subscription Rates
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, February 18, 2020
New research from Audience Project shows the UK has the lowest proportion of digital content subscribers. Netimperative reports that just 8% of Brits pay for content online, compared to 14% ...
- UK Will Hold Social Media Bosses Accountable For Content
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Friday, February 7, 2020
Executives are likely to be taken to court if social media companies allow harmful content to remain published. ...
- Twitter Seeks Dismissal Of Devin Nunes Defamation Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 24, 2020
"Congress granted providers of online platforms like Twitter broad immunity from claims that seek to hold them liable for harms caused by defamatory or otherwise harmful content that appeared on ...
- Psychiatrists Call For Social Media To Hand Over Data To Better Protect Children
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, January 17, 2020
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is urging the Government to force social media giants to share data on how young people use their sites so they can better understand the ...
- Tech Companies Lobby The EU Over Content Responsibility
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, January 10, 2020
Tech companies are lobbying the EU to not make them responsible for all content on their platforms. City A.M. reveals that the companies do accept the need to take harmful ...
- YouTube Stops Serving Personalized Ads On Children's Videos
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 6, 2020
"YouTube now treats personal information from anyone watching children's content on the platform as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user," the company said Monday. ...
- UK Publishers Urged To Tackle The Power Of The Duopoly
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, December 4, 2019
British publishers need to talk more and understand the value of their content and the huge sums of money Facebook and Google make from it, according to a speech at ...
