- Facebook Says BrandTotal Not Entitled To Gather Ad-Related Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 12, 2021
Facebook is telling a federal judge that its ability to protect users from scraping depends on its power to prevent companies like BrandTotal from collecting data from the site. ...
- Odds 'Trump' Social Net Will Be Huge: 40/1
Marketing Politics Weekly, Joe Mandese - Thursday, March 25, 2021
With an implied probability of only 2.44%, oddsmakers predict the impeached former president's new social network will not be "Huge," literally. With odds of 40/1, the name "Huge" ranked la ...
- Microsoft's LinkedIn Pauses Sign-Ups In China
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Microsoft's networking site LinkedIn will pause new member sign-ups for its service in China, while it works to ensure it is complying with local law. ...
- Court Sides With Facebook Over BrandTotal Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 22, 2021
A federal judge has dismissed analytics company BrandTotal's claims that it was wrongly banned from Facebook's platform, allowing BrandTotal to reformulate some claims and bring them again. ...
- Why CES' Hottest Party Had No Attendees
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, January 14, 2021
CES normally is renowned for its parties in some of Las Vegas' hottest venues, especially when they are hosted by companies like iHeartMedia and MediaLink, but this year's biggest shind ...
- AT&T Appeals to the Masses with a Hyper-Customized Video Campaign on Social
The MediaPost Cases, Lisa Singer - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
There are brands that do what you do, but you know you do it best. So how do you let everyone else know that? If you're AT&T, you produce impactf ...
- FTC, States Sue Facebook Over 'Buy-Or-Bury' Monopoly Scheme
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 9, 2020
"For almost a decade, Facebook has had monopoly power in the personal social networking market in the United States," New York Attorney General Letitia James and 47 other attorneys gener ...
- Supreme Court Wrestles With Anti-Hacking Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 30, 2020
The government's interpretation of a decades-old anti-hacking law "would brand most Americans criminals on a daily basis," a lawyer representing a former police sergeant told the Supreme Court Monday. ...
- Don't Be A Clutterbug: Personalized Emails Are More Welcome Than Batch-And-Blast
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Retailers are the primary generator of overstuffed inboxes, with daily deals the most prevalent, SmarterHQ reports. ...
- Microsoft Agrees To Transfer TikTok Code, Algorithms From China
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Microsoft and TikTok reportedly plan to finish acquisition talks within the next few weeks, ahead of the Sept. 15 deadline, putting the company in direct competition with Facebook's Instagram. ...
- Analytics Company hiQ Urges Supreme Court To Stay Out Of Scraping Battle With LinkedIn
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 25, 2020
hiQ Labs is asking the Supreme Court to leave in place an injunction that requires LinkedIn to allow its pages to be scraped. ...
- Google Meet Now Free To Anyone With An Email Account
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Google Cloud announced Wednesday it will make its video-conferencing platform free. The company also said the Meet data will not be used for advertising and isn't for sale to thi ...
- Supreme Court Asks hiQ To Respond In Battle Over Data Scraping
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 27, 2020
The Supreme Court wants analytics company hiQ to respond to LinkedIn's request to intervene in a three-year-old battle over whether hiQ violates an anti-hacking law by scraping data about Linked ...
- Court Revives Claims Privacy Claims Over Facebook's 'Like' Button
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 9, 2020
Siding against Facebook, a federal appellate panel has revived a lawsuit claiming that the company violated users' privacy by tracking them via the "Like" button. ...
- Puppo's Unique Strategy Spikes Organic Search By 144%
MediaPost Connect, Nina Lentini - Friday, April 10, 2020
"Our target audience is people who care about personalization for their pets so it was important to target areas where there is a strong density of people with a wi ...
- Facebook Sues Mobile Analytics Company OneAudience Over Data Mining
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 27, 2020
The mobile analytics company OneAudience improperly collected a host of data from Facebook users -- including names, emails, call logs, and location data -- the social networking platform alleged ...
- Xfinity's 'Project Dead Zone' Takes Best In Show
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Monday, September 30, 2019
A paranormal investigation powered by Xfinity xFi Pods on Twitter Live was staged at the Winchester Mystery House, a haunted house in San Jose, Calif., known for its crazy numb ...
- LinkedIn Can't Block Analytics Company From Scraping Profiles
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 9, 2019
LinkedIn can't rely on a 33-year-old anti-hacking law to prevent the analytics firm HiQ Labs from mining data, a federal appellate court ruled Monday. ...
- Organic Valley Puts Fitbits On Cows
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Organic Valley was finally hitting a point of breakthrough in awareness. It was time to "get the brand out there, to establish the brand." ...
- AWeber Gives Entrepreneurs Leg-up With Curate
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Users can leave their laptop at home, easily write emails, and follow up with customers between bites of pizza, yoga poses, or errands. ...
- Cross-Channel Digital Attribution Is The Way Of The Future
Show Daily, Nina Lentini - Monday, April 29, 2019
With multi-touch attribution, said Crispin Sheridan, VP digital and social optimization, SAP, think of media as a relay race. "Give appropriate credit to all your runners. Or you have last-cli ...
- Social Acceleration Contributes To Shorter Attention Spans
Social Media Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, April 17, 2019
The researchers determined that more content being produced in less time is exhausting the public's collective attention. ...
- BMW Celebrates Diversity To Showcase Sporty X2 Model
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Thursday, March 14, 2019
The LGBTQ community, possessing a bold and rebellious mindset to live life on their own terms, perfectly embodied both BMW's Modern Maverick target and X2 manifesto of "Give No Explanatio ...
- UPS Pulls In Viewers With A Sentimental Journey - Or 4
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Thursday, March 14, 2019
The brand's proactive and agile approach led it to perform well above its 2017 benchmarks. With clear pacing and more visibility into paid data, it was able to guide, measu ...
- 7-Eleven: Evolutions In Convenience
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Tuesday, November 20, 2018
The focus is predominantly on personalization by incorporating things that are local and personalized to an individual's pace and environment. ...
- Universal Music, Facebook Sign Licensing Deal
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Thursday, December 21, 2017
The arrangement will make the publisher's music catalogs available for video and "social experiences" across Facebook, Instagram and Facebook's virtual reality company Oculus. ...
- Facebook Urges Judge To Toss 'Faceprint' Suit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Facebook says an Illinois privacy law regarding "faceprints" law doesn't apply to activity that occurs in other states. ...
- LinkedIn Appeals Order Requiring It To Allow Scraping By HiQ
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 6, 2017
LinkedIn is appealing a court order that requires the company to allow the startup HiQ Labs to scrape publicly available data about users. ...
- Using Insight Panels to Get Feedback
Show Daily: Videos, Staff Writers - Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Insight panels produce more than research. They can also inspire brand advocacy and test messaging. At the Brand Insider Summit, Ryan Younger, VP, Strategic Marketing at Hackensack Meridian Health a ...
- Facebook Hits $9.32B In Q2 Revenue, Mostly Mobile-Based
Digital News Daily, Tobi Elkin - Thursday, July 27, 2017
Aided by strong mobile ad sales and an ability to attract new users to its apps, Facebook increased its revenue 45% in Q2 from the same period a year ag ...
