- Facebook To Stop Recommending Friends Based On Phone Numbers Offered For Security
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 19, 2019
Facebook users provided phone numbers in order to authenticate their accounts, but the company drew on those numbers for other purposes -- including its "people you may know" feature. ...
- Havas Continues Acquisition Spree in Fast-Growing India Market
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Thursday, December 19, 2019
Experiential agency Shobiz is the company's third agency acquisition in the country this year. Zenith predicts India will become the second-largest contributor to global ad spend growth in
themid-2020s. ...
- Nielsen Gen-Z Study On Sports TV, Video Usage Finds The More Action, The Better
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 19, 2019
Globally, young sports TV-video watchers favor big action sports, and may cause a shift in how and what kinds of sports programming big TV distributors will deliver in the futur ...
- Apple, Amazon, Google Partner In Zigbee Alliance On Connected Home Project
AI & IoT Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Members of the working group Project Connected Home over IP will create a new standard to make it easier to connect fragmented smart-home products. It aims to increase compatibility amo ...
- 80% Of U.S. Apps Found To Have 'Dangerous Permissions,' Many From China, Russia, South Korea
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, December 17, 2019
An alarming analysis of mobile apps targeting users released today by Pixalate suggests potential threats to both brand safety and national security. The analysis of the top 10,000 apps install ...
- Netflix Posts Strong Gains In Asia-Pacific And Europe
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 16, 2019
In September, Netflix posted its biggest percentage increase in Asia-Pacific subscribers -- up 53% -- with the Europe/Middle East/Africa region at a 40% gain. ...
- Sorrell's S4 Capital Adds 2 CEOs (And APAC Specialists) To Its Board
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The appointments reinforce S4's commitment to expansion in the APAC region and follow the opening of the firm's Singapore office earlier this year. ...
- 'Barron's' Expands Deal With Jiji To Reach Japanese Audience
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The new deal will now include 25 articles per week in 'Barron's Digest,' chosen daily its U.S. website and translated for subscribers. ...
- You & Mr Jones CEO Shares 2020 Predictions As Company Announces $200M In Funding
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 10, 2019
The CEO of You & Mr Jones believes the next decade will see more change in marketing and business worldwide compared with the past 10 years. ...
- 966 Million Connected Cars Projected In 10 Years
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Sunday, December 8, 2019
China is projected to lead the number of connected vehicles on the road until 2030. ...
- Hackers Steal $1 Million In Venture Funding From Chinese VC Firm, Using Email
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 9, 2019
The attacker created look-alike domains for the Chinese VC firm and the Israeli start-up. The origin was Hong Kong, Check Point reports. ...
- As Global Economy Weakens, Agencies Forecast 4% Growth (Give or Take) For 2020
MAD, Larissa Faw, Steve McClellan - Monday, December 9, 2019
A weakening global economy will keep underlying ad-spend growth in the mid single-digit range, according to forecasts just released from GroupM, Zenith and Magna. ...
- Facebook Sues Alleged Distributor Of Ad-Serving Malware
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 5, 2019
Facebook on Thursday sued a Hong Kong company that allegedly duped web users into installing malware that not only took over people's Facebook accounts, but then served ads from tho ...
- Programmatic DOOH Takes Hold In Japan As Olympics Approach
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, December 5, 2019
New Dentsu, NTT Docomo joint venture Live Board, with a marketplace powered by market-tailored Hivestack ad-server tech, is enabling impression-based DOOH buys at scale in a fragmented Japanese DOOH med ...
- Netflix's Potential Subscribers Estimated At 300 Million Globally: Research
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 2, 2019
With over 100 worldwide digital and pay TV distribution partnerships covering an estimated 300 million subscribers, Netflix's potential subscriber footprint is nearly double its current worldwide subscriber total, according ...
- GroupM: U.K. Ad Market Rallies, On Track To Supplant Japan As 3rd Largest
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, December 2, 2019
Despite the political and economic uncertainty facing the U.K. in 2019, the media industry has "held strong," according to GroupM Business Intelligence Global President Brian Wieser, summing up the agen ...
- Outbrain Study Shows Added Trust In Native Ads, Extends Partnership With SPH
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Wednesday, November 27, 2019
The study found native ads shown on "premium" news sites in the UK, France and Germany are more likely to be trusted (+31%), clicked on (+16%) and lead to futu ...
- Programmatic Ad Spend To Hit $147 Billion By 2021
MAD, Larissa Faw - Monday, November 25, 2019
Programmatic trading continues to grow -- exceeding $100 billion for the first time in 2019 and rising to $127 billion in 2020 and $147 billion in 2021, according to ...
- Microsoft To Shutter Cortana App In Some Countries Outside U.S.
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 19, 2019
At the end of January 2020, the company plans to shutter the stand-alone app in Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Mexico, China, Spain, Canada, and India. ...
- GroupM's Big New Reorganization
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, November 18, 2019
GroupM CEO Christian Juhl announced a reorganization designed to optimize the group's global resources. ...
- Softbank Plans Merger Of Yahoo Japan, Line
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Monday, November 18, 2019
Softbank intends to merge internet subsidiary Yahoo Japan with Line Corp., the messaging app operator, creating a new technology group. Line, owned by Naver Corp. in South Korea, would beco ...
- No Growth For Dentsu Group Through The First 9 Months
MAD, Steve McClellan - Thursday, November 14, 2019
The Americas region continues to outperform the group as a whole. In Q3, DAN operations in the region reported 2.7% organic growth and 5% growth for the first nine mon ...
- Zenith: Global Beauty Ad Spend To Hit $15.8 Billion By 2021
MAD, Larissa Faw - Monday, November 11, 2019
In a new report, the agency notes there has been a shift in beauty spending in recent years as magazines and television -- traditionally favored by brands-have lost audiences ...
- Email A Growing Channel For Pharma Marketers Worldwide, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, November 11, 2019
Email is among the top three channels in North America, drawing 14% of the average digital budget, Indegene reports. ...
- Baidu Challenged With Indexing Mobile Content
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, November 7, 2019
Baidu chairman and CEO Robin Li called the challenges "opportunities" and says Baidu is looking to build its own mobile ecosystem so it can more easily index content and servic ...
- Sens. Schumer, Cotton Lead Effort To Assess TikTok's Security Risk
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, October 24, 2019
TikTok has been downloaded by more than 110 million U.S. consumers. It is required to adhere to Chinese law, which means it must cooperate with intelligence work controlled by China ...
- Influencers Lose Impact When Product Has Many Varieties: Study
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Consumers want less choice, not more, when reading endorsements from opinion leaders, a study finds. ...
- Algolia Secures $110 Million In Series C Funding To Finance Global Expansion
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 15, 2019
The company now estimates it supports more than 8,000 businesses, up from 3,000 in 2017. ...
- Apple Defends Sharing Browser Data With Google, Tencent
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 15, 2019
The feature being debated is built into Apple's Safari web browser for Macs, iPhones and iPads. It is designed to warn people when they visit sites that hackers create ...
- Uproar As Quartz Banned From App Store In China
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, October 11, 2019
Apple has come under heavy criticism for removing a news service from its app store in China. According to "The Telegraph," the Quartz app has been banned because of i ...
