- Parler CEO Says He Gave 'Wrong Impression' About 'Free Speech' Site
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 11, 2021
With the threat of Amazon Web Services pulling the plug Sunday on Parler, the conservative site's CEO said his media company does not "condone or accept violence on our platfo ...
- Job Seekers Settle Battle With Amazon And T-Mobile Over Age-Targeted Facebook Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 6, 2021
A group of job seekers and the Communications Workers of America Union have settled a 2017 lawsuit alleging that Amazon and T-Mobile used Facebook's tools to illegally prevent older worke ...
- Amazon Acquires Wondery, Podcast Network Now Part Of Amazon Music
Publishers Daily, Fern Siegel - Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Wondery fans can still access its podcasts through their app of choice. ...
- Amazon Still Lets Sellers Game Its Search Algorithms
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 30, 2020
The best-reviewed products are not always the highest quality -- at least not on Amazon. More consumers will realize this as they dig into their holiday purchases. ...
- Amazon Rescues Small, Medium-Sized Businesses From COVID-19 Lockdowns In 2020
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Amidst in-store shopping restrictions in some states, during the holiday season U.S. small and medium-sized businesses sold nearly 1 billion products in Amazon's store. ...
- Apple, Google, Microsoft Form Health Care Partnerships
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 28, 2020
Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft are among the top 11 tech icons partnering with health care companies, according to Jackie Dress, who put together a list to help people sear ...
- Phony Amazon Gift Cards Deliver Malicious Trojan: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 28, 2020
Delivered by email, the purported gift cards serve the Dridex banking trojan, Cybereason reports. ...
- For Safer Holidays, Amazon Recruits 'Granfluencers'
Marketing Daily, Sarah Mahoney - Wednesday, December 23, 2020
The idea is to showcase the Amazon Echo and ways families can use it for impromptu drop-in visits. ...
- Comcast's Xfinity Stream App Now On Fire TV Devices
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, December 18, 2020
Up to now, the app had been available on Roku and LG and Samsung smart TVs. ...
- Consumers Want Brands To Protect Them Against Knockoffs, Fakes, Fraud
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
One-quarter of consumers in a recent study bought counterfeit products, 36% saw fake ads or social posts, 41% saw fake websites, and 35% experienced fake social media accounts. ...
- Amazon Fire TV Monthly Active Users Hit 50M, Surpassing Roku
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Amazon is currently rolling out a major user interface upgrade on its Fire TV Stick 3rd generation and Fire TV Stick Lite devices. ...
- Amazon Surpasses Facebook In Website Tracker Tags
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Research from Ghostery, a free privacy and security-related browser extension, found that in 2020 companies increased the number of website pages in which they track consumers, as the ad indust ...
- Amazon Partners With Twitter To Deliver Tweets In Its Cloud Infrastructure
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 15, 2020
The deal marks the first time Twitter has leveraged the public cloud to scale its real-time service, and will support timelines to provide the infrastructure for the delivery of millio ...
- FTC Launches Broad Online Privacy Investigation
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 14, 2020
The FTC on Monday launched an investigation into "dangerously opaque" online pratices by demanding detailed information from Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, YouTube and others about how they gather data about consume ...
- Amazon, Sky Agree To Carry Each Others' Services In Europe
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, December 14, 2020
Amazon Prime Video will be accessible through Sky and Now TV devices, and the Sky Ticket and Now TV apps will be carried on Amazon Fire TV devices. ...
- Amazon Reveals Zoox Robotaxi Monday -- Will It Move Into DOOH?
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, December 11, 2020
The bi-directional taxi could position Amazon in the DOOH ad space, attaching traveling billboards to moving vehicles -- and ease the challenge of deliveries for online orders. ...
- French Regulators Fine Google, Amazon Over Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 10, 2020
In an online privacy crackdown, French authorities have fined Google $121 million and Amazon $43 million over their use of cookies for ad-targeting purposes. ...
- Pinterest Predicts 2021 Trends, Former Marie Claire Editor In Chief Makes The Reveal
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 10, 2020
Some 97% of searches on Pinterest are unbranded, giving brands a level playing field for reaching consumers during the discovery phase of their shopping experience. ...
- Rubicon, Microsoft, Unilever Join Amazon's The Climate Pledge
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Net zero carbon by 2020 may seem ambitious, but it's Amazon's mission to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early through an organization called The Climate Pledg ...
- Amazon Fire TV Adding News Content From 12 Local TV Stations, 90 More To Come In 2021
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, December 4, 2020
Major market local TV stations and their newscasts will get a boost with TV news content distribution deals on Amazon Fire TV, the streaming OTT and app service with ...
- Amazon Tells Advertisers To Use Behavioral Signals In OTT Ad Campaigns
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, December 4, 2020
As marketplaces like Amazon see dramatic growth, one wants advertisers to take advantage of behavioral data from a variety of actions to support a range of media buys. ...
- If You Can't Beat Them: Surrender?
MediaDailyNews, George Simpson - Thursday, December 3, 2020
Which side of history will you fall on if you ignore the misadventures of your digital partners simply to get the best deal (or more conversions)? ...
- Tech Entrepreneur Tony Hsieh Dies
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Sunday, November 29, 2020
Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has died at the age of 46 from injuries he sustained from a house fire. Hsieh “catapulted the shoe company into the big leagues wi ...
- Amazon Prime Video Trumps National TV With 'Exclusive' For NFL Cards, 49ers Game
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, December 1, 2020
The Dec. 26 game won't be on national TV -- although it will be aired on local TV affiliates in the teams' home markets, and be accessible through mobile ...
- Amazon Steps Up Actions To Tackle Sale Of Counterfeit Goods On Its Platform In U.S., Europe
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Amazon this week launched several initiatives to crack down on trademark issues and counterfeiting across its marketplace. ...
- A Startup Pays Consumers For Privacy-Compliant Data It Sells To Brands
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 23, 2020
Last week Killi began rolling out PayCheck, an opt-in reoccurring weekly payment system that supports data sharing. The company pays users to share location, shopping, browsing, and spending data a ...
- Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter Threaten To Leave Pakistan Over Censorship
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, November 20, 2020
Amazon, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other Asia Internet Coalition members have threatened to leave Pakistan after it gave local regulators power to censor digital content. ...
- Amazon Set To Shake Up Pharma's $1.3 Trillion Universe
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Sarah Mahoney - Thursday, November 19, 2020
Still, "similar to its foray into food, Amazon will find itself facing formidable, deeply embedded competitors with voluminous store networks," says an analyst. ...
- HBO Max Finally Comes To Amazon Fire Devices; No Deal Yet For Roku (But There's A Workaround)
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 16, 2020
The belated deal brings the HBO Max app to 40 million Amazon Fire TV streaming devices, Fire TV Edition smart TVs, and Fire tablets, filling much of a distribution ...
- European Commission Tells Amazon Not To Use Its Data To Undermine Third-Party Sellers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 11, 2020
The European Commission (EC) accused Amazon of violating EU competition laws by using non-public data on its platform to distort competition in online retail markets. ...
