- Appeals Court Refuses To Revive Spam Lawsuit Against Kraft
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 5, 2015
Siding with Kraft Foods, a federal appellate court has affirmed a trial judge's dismissal of a lawsuit brought against the company by spam "litigation factory" Beyond Systems. ...
- Text-Spam Case Against Lyft Suspended Until FCC Weighs In
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 9, 2015
A federal judge said this week that she will await guidance from the Federal Communications Commission before continuing proceedings in a lawsuit centering on whether Lyft's "invite friends" feature violat ...
- Spam Words To Avoid
Research Brief, Jack Loechner - Thursday, January 8, 2015
Most of us receive spam every day, says a new report from MailJet by Rad Penchev, sharing some of the most commonly seen spammer lingo to help you protect yoursel ...
- Uber Sued For Sending Unwanted Text Messages
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 5, 2015
Car service Uber has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit accusing it of sending unwanted text messages to people's cell phones. Four individuals argue that Uber violated the Telepho ...
- Appeals Court Allows Text-Spam Case Against Path To Proceed
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Mobile social network Path can't immediately appeal a decision allowing a consumer to proceed with a potential class-action lawsuit over unwanted text messages, a panel of the 7th Circuit Cou ...
- Another Report Identifies Growing Bot Traffic
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, December 21, 2014
A report found that bot traffic volumes fell to 56%, from 60% in 2013, across of all Web visits. The steady drop in bots points to RSS services, per t ...
- Judge Refuses To Dismiss Text-Spam Lawsuit Against Yahoo
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 12, 2014
A federal judge has rejected Yahoo's argument that it's entitled to prevail before trial in a potential class-action lawsuit alleging that it sent consumers unsolicited SMS messages. The lawsuit ...
- Twitter Must Face SMS-Spam Lawsuit, Judge Rules
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 1, 2014
Twitter can't shake a lawsuit accusing it of violating an anti-spam law by sending text messages to recycled phone numbers. In a ruling issued last week, U.S. District Court Jud ...
- Appeals Court Weighs Yahoo's Responsibility For Unwanted SMS Messages
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 24, 2014
A Philadelphia man who allegedly received 27,000 unwanted text alerts from Yahoo asked an appellate panel on Friday to reinstate his lawsuit against the company. He said that Yahoo violat ...
- Judge Allows Path To Appeal Text-Spam Ruling
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 12, 2014
A federal judge has authorized Path to appeal a pro-consumer ruling in a battle over an unsolicited invitation to join the service. Path is accused of violating the Telephone Consum ...
- Yahoo Opposes Consumer's Bid To Revive Lawsuit Over SMS Messages
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Yahoo didn't run afoul of an anti-spam law by allegedly sending thousands of SMS messages to the wrong person, the company argues in new court papers. The company is aski ...
- Google's Dreaded Spammy Site Notice
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Rand Fishkin shows us a screenshot of a message someone received in their Google Webmaster Tools inbox about some links violating Google's Quality Guidelines. Although many site owners have receiv ...
- Federal Court Sides With Taco Bell Over Text Messaging
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 3, 2014
Siding with Taco Bell, a federal appellate court decided this week that the company isn't responsible for text messages that a mobile-marketing agency allegedly sent to consumers. The decision appea ...
- Path Wants Appeals Court To Scuttle Mobile-Spam Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 2, 2014
The mobile social network Path wants to immediately appeal a recent decision allowing consumers to proceed with a lawsuit accusing it of sending unsolicited text-message ads. ...
- Twitter Sued For Sending SMS Ads To Recycled Numbers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 20, 2014
Twitter has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit accusing it of violating an anti-spam law by sending texts messages to the wrong phone number. Twitter is accused of violati ...
- Landmark Spam Fine Ruling Against John Lewis
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, June 2, 2014
John Lewis has been ordered to pay damages after it was successfully prosecuted for sending unsolicited spam emails. The case, brought against the retailer by a Sky news producer, h ...
- Marketing Revolution Ahead As Era Of 'Explicit Opt-In' Looms Large
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Monday, June 2, 2014
As the John Lewis fine for spam shows, it's not okay to assume someone who doesn't say "no" to you is actually saying "yes." It's a huge issue because "explic ...
- Lyft Hit With SMS-Spam Lawsuit For 'Invite Friends' Program
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Ride-sharing service Lyft was hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly running an "aggressive marketing campaign" that sends people unwanted SMS messages. The complaint alleges that the marketing progr ...
- The Irony of Matt Cutts, Scrapper Sites, Twitter Backlash
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 28, 2014
Matt Cutts received backlash this week after announcing Google's reporting tool designed to make it easier for site and content owners to flag instances when scraped material ranks higher th ...
- Google's Cutts: Guest Blogging Too "Spammy"
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Web spam team, strongly suggests reconsidering your guest blogging strategy. “If you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you shou ...
- How To Organize Short-Term Duplicate Content
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 9, 2014
Matt Cutts published a video telling publishers that distribute duplicate stories on different URLs that they can use the rel=canonical tag to consolidate PageRank, which he explains gets divided amo ...
- Marketing Groups Protest New FCC Mobile Spam Rules
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 30, 2013
The Federal Communications Commission should refrain from enforcing some of the new regulations aimed at preventing mobile spam, the Direct Marketing Association says in a petition to the agency. ...
- Social Spam Rose 355% In The First Half Of 2013
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 26, 2013
Social spam in Facebook, YouTube, Google+, Twitter and other sites grew 355% during the first six months in 2013 -- but only 15% contain a URL, making it easier ...
- Social Media Spam Increasing, 20% on Brand Accounts
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Wednesday, September 25, 2013
No matter how you slice it, spam sucks: it's annoying for Internet users, while for marketers it threatens to decrease the effectiveness of email and social media as channels f ...
- Path Sued For Sending SMS Messages
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 20, 2013
For the third time this year, mobile social network Path has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly spamming cell phone users. Path is one of many compani ...
- HootSuite, Nextgate Team To Protect Marketers From Hackers, Spam
Online Media Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, September 5, 2013
Social media marketers are facing increasingly stringent compliance and policy management requirements. Hoping to ease their burden, social media monitoring service HootSuite has enlisted the help of security firm Nextg ...
- Spam Arrest Loses Battle With Email Sender
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 3, 2013
In a defeat for Spam Arrest, a judge has thrown out the anti-spam company's lawsuit against a marketer that allegedly sent unsolicited emails to consumers. The company sued Sentient J ...
- Viacom Settles SMS Spam Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Viacom has resolved a text-spam lawsuit by agreeing to pay $3,000 to Tennessee resident Eric Mock, who alleged that the media company sent her SMS ads promoting TV shows. T ...
- Google's Cutts Explains Fighting Spam Worldwide
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Matt Cutts talks about Google's efforts to fight Web spam in the latest Webmaster Video Log on YouTube after a user in Mountain View, Calif. asks whether the Webspam te ...
- FTC Settles With 'Free iPhone' Spammer, Suspends $60,000 Fine
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 22, 2013
A Georgia resident who allegedly sent millions of people deceptive SMS messages offering free iPhones has settled Federal Trade Commission charges by agreeing to refrain from sending text spam ...
