- Ryan Lizza Seeks New Hearing In Defamation Battle With Devin Nunes
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 13, 2021
A recent ruling that revived Devin Nunes' defamation lawsuit over a tweet "would allow public officials to silence critical press coverage by using blanket, implicit denials devoid of any factu ...
- Father Of Slain Reporter Asks FTC To Investigate Facebook Over Videos
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The father of a journalist killed on the air is urging the FTC to investigate Facebook for allegedly allowing videos of her murder to remain on the platform. ...
- Greedy Dinosaur Campaign Shows How Energy Companies Ignore Climate Change
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The humorous campaign for French independent energy provider ekWateur focuses on awareness, branding and performance to encourage people to switch to renewable energy. ...
- Slew Of Apps In Addition To Instagram Being Analyzed Amidst Child Safety Concerns
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 8, 2021
The delay of Instagram's app for kids highlights a need for tighter laws. The U.K. leads the U.S. in this area, introducing a new code earlier this year, the A ...
- Trump Seeks To Force Facebook To Restore Account
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 7, 2021
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked a federal court to order Facebook to restore his account, arguing that his ongoing ban from the service could hurt the Republican Party ...
- Google Stops Funding Sites, YouTube Videos Contradicting Scientific Consensus On Climate Change
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 7, 2021
The ban, which goes into effect in November, applies to ads as well as websites and YouTube videos that run Google ads and includes any content that denies human contributio ...
- Food52 Partners With Tillamook County Creamery For Farmer Assistance
Marketing Daily, Steve Ellwanger - Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Tillamook-which markets dairy products-is promoting its All For Farmers initiative across a variety of media platforms. ...
- Google Search Sustainability Data Will Force Companies To Shrink Carbon Footprints
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Google has spent years reducing its carbon footprint. Now it's focused on helping people using its platforms reduce theirs. ...
- Campaign Drives Awareness Of COVID-19's Impact On Black Communities
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, October 6, 2021
The new COVID-10 Awareness Campaign targets Black communities to counter misinformation and spread awareness of how the pandemic affects Black lives in particular. ...
- Google Builds Support For High-Tech Next-Gen Digital Newsrooms
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Organizations using the News Revenue Engine will own their data and can transfer it to other services. But will Google help these publishers with SEO and integrate its ad platfor ...
- Trump Seeks Order Requiring Twitter To Restore His Account
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, October 2, 2021
Trump's lawyers argue that his continued absence from Twitter could hurt the Republican Party's chances of winning future elections. ...
- Facebook Calls Devastating '60 Minutes' Whistleblower Segment 'Misleading'
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, October 4, 2021
"There were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook, and Facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its o ...
- YouTube Clamps Down On Anti-Vax Videos
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 29, 2021
In a new crackdown on vaccine misinformation, YouTube on Wednesday removed video channels of prominent vaccine critics, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, who founded the group Children's Health
Defense. ...
- TikTok Specialty Agency Launches Scholarship Program For Content Creators
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, September 29, 2021
The six-month program will school three "budding 'TikTokers'" on the state-of-the-art expertise developed by LINK. ...
- Breweries Aim To Help Musicians Hurt By Pandemic
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, September 27, 2021
Several dozen U.S. breweries are making a special beer to benefit those in the music industry who have been hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. A Woodburn, Oregon hops grower al ...
- Brooklyn Brewery Taps London Agency For LGBTQ+ Campaign
Marketing Daily, Les Luchter - Friday, September 24, 2021
The initial creative, which includes a :60 video, highlights five grassroots LGBTQ+ activists from around the globe. ...
- The Mystery Of The Maskless Rider
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, September 27, 2021
As New York begins to return to life, I'm doing something I once thought impossible: riding the subway. In the past few weeks, a growing mystery has me puzzled ...
- Why Political Activism Will Be The New Brand Purpose
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Friday, September 24, 2021
Nearly half of consumers say they're "unlikely to buy products or services from companies not aligned with their political views." ...
- Fake Funeral Home Promotes COVID-19 Vaccine
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Wednesday, September 22, 2021
A Charlotte, North Carolina healthcare provider is using out-of-home ads to get people talking and thinking about the COVID-19 vaccine. “Don’t get vaccinated,” read the digital billboards, followed by t ...
- Truth's New Vape Product Is Smooth, Satisfying And Depressing
MAD, Todd Wasserman - Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Decades ago smoking foes referred to cigarettes as cancer sticks. Now Truth is promoting 'Depression Sticks" for the vaping generation. ...
- 'Listen Campaign' Aims To Ease Plight Of At-Risk Kids Worldwide
MAD, Todd Wasserman - Monday, September 20, 2021
Over the next decade, the campaign aims to provide $1 billion to children's projects. ...
- SC Johnson Tackles Plastic Waste, From Sports Stadiums To Oceans
Marketing Daily, Les Luchter - Monday, September 20, 2021
Plastic bottles and cups discarded at Milwaukee and Liverpool stadiums will be recycled into packaging for SC Johnson cleaning products. ...
- O-I Glass, Pepsi: Avoid Plastic Or Recycle It?
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Tuesday, September 21, 2021
New "Plastic-Free Diet" campaign is based on study that shows "average person" ingests about five grams of plastic weekly. ...
- When It Comes To Unvaxxed Consumers, Study Finds Context Is King
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, September 20, 2021
MotivBase, whose clients are leading national marketers, says it is "teaching people to ask not 'What are people saying?' but 'What do they mean?' ...
- Ad Industry To Combat Hate Speech Via Same Platform Perpetuating It: Social Media
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, September 20, 2021
The ANA will oversee the #EngageResponsibly campaign breaking later this year. ...
- Senators Call Foul After Google Blocks Ads For 'Abortion Reversal' Pill And 'Pro-Life' Ads
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 16, 2021
Several U.S. senators today demanded to know why Google decided to pull "abortion reversal" pill ads while continuing to allow ads for mifepristone, known as the "abortion pill." ...
- Lawmakers Urge Facebook To Halt Plans To Launch New Platforms For Kids
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 15, 2021
A trio of Democratic lawmakers are urging Facebook to immediately cease efforts to launch a version of Instagram for children, given a new report about company research into the service ...
- Facebook, Google Profit Off 'Abortion Reversal' Ads Served To Minors, Study Shows
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 16, 2021
A report by The Center for Countering Digital Hate estimates advertisers have paid Facebook up to $140,667 to run "abortion reversal" ads since Jan. 2020. Facebook has a policy banni ...
- Starbucks Launches Instagram AR Effect With Poet Morgan Harper Nichols
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, September 15, 2021
"Morning Mantras" finds inspiration where many of us are: home. Nichols says she believes in the power of a few words "to remind us, 'Hey, we're all in this togeth ...
- Ad Industry Defends 'Inaccurately Maligned' Targeting
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 13, 2021
Recent campaigns urging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 show the benefits of demographic targeting, the ad industry argues. ...
