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31 votes
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What is MasterClass actually selling?
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The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 million per week on Facebook ads, almost assuredly making it the platform's largest advertiser
@Judd Legum: The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 MILLION PER WEEK on Facebook That's a $280 million annual rate.The Trump campaign is almost certainly Facebook's largest advertiser In 2019, Home Depot was the largest advertiser, spending $178.5 million pic.twitter.com/4BjWknL73H
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Facebook showed this ad to 95% women. Is that a problem?
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I have cancer and now my Facebook feed is full of "alternative care" ads
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An app lets you de-stress by screaming at the Icelandic wilderness from afar
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eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces
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You've been through a lot this year and it looks like you need the perfect place to let your frustrations out – record your scream and we'll release it in Iceland
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Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
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Over 400 advertisers hit pause on Facebook, threatening $70 billion juggernaut
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Pressure mounts as Starbucks, Coca-Cola join Facebook ad boycott; Facebook updates policy
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Coca-Cola pauses advertising on all social media platforms globally
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Anti-Defamation League sends open letter to advertisers, urging them to boycott Facebook due to ads being placed adjacent to hateful content
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How Cooper Black became pop culture’s favorite font
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Google has banned ZeroHedge from its ad platform for content policy violations related to misinformation about the Black Lives Matter protests
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CNBC reporter makes fake news website with plagiarized content, gets approved by ad tech companies
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New York Times phasing out all third-party advertising data
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Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut
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Chrome to start throttling resource-heavy ads in August
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Welcome to the age of privacy nihilism
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The pathetic state of Youtube advertising
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Google to require all advertisers to pass identity verification process
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Facebook approved ads with coronavirus misinformation, in an experiment which raises questions about how the social media giant screens ads on its platform
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Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content
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Twitter removes privacy option, and shows why we need strong privacy laws
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Documentaries as advertising: Corporate interests turn to indie docs for influence; audiences in the dark
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Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
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As the coronavirus slowdown hits newspapers, the Monterey County Weekly lays off seven employees
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Vintage ads: Selling health and hygiene during the 1918 pandemic
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Brands can now purchase an ad in the #2 slot of Reddit's "Trending" sections in the Popular page and Search dropdown
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Apple now allows push notification advertising, updates dating app review guidelines and more
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Security researchers partner with Chrome to take down over 500 browser extensions in a fraud network affecting 1.7 million users
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Scandinavian Airlines clarifies an advert intended to highlight the role of travel, immigration and cultural diversity after it was pilloried online by far-right and nationalist groups
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Joe Biden's campaign has released an ad attacking Pete Buttigieg's record and experience
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Add-on support was just merged into Firefox Preview
@aissn: Add-on support was just merged into Firefox Preview. Thanks @gabrielluong https://t.co/cXOCB00tKk
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What's the deal with meta advertising?
I don't watch T.V very often, but do - when I'm up (which is infrequent given I'm outside the U.S) - watch the NBA. Recently I've had a little time so have watched a few games live. Doing so, I...
I don't watch T.V very often, but do - when I'm up (which is infrequent given I'm outside the U.S) - watch the NBA. Recently I've had a little time so have watched a few games live. Doing so, I was quite taken aback at how commonplace humour and meta advertising are nowadays. Is this just a U.S thing?
Is there any research out there on when and why advertisers started doing this? Seems like every other ad shoots for either humour or "we know you know this is an ad, you're clearly smart enough to realise that, so smart in fact you might want to buy into our brand". Whatever the case, as ever, grateful for resources/discussion from those more in the know than I.
EDIT: A good example that is equal parts humour/meta is LeBron James' Super Bowl Sprite Ad.
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How -- and why -- advertisers are looking at gaming and esports
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Google sends a unique Chrome browser identifier through Chrome when you visit their websites
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How ads follow you around the internet
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Utah wanted all the tourists. Then it got them
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A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
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Scroll: A subscription service partnered with major websites that removes ads and many trackers, and pays sites based on your usage
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Toyota has a history of creating misleading electric vehicle ads, especially with its 'self-charging hybrid' ad campaign – Norway has now banned the campaign
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Every Google result now looks like an ad
@craigmod: There's something strange about the recent design change to google search results, favicons and extra header text: they all look like ads, which is perhaps the point?
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The US pesticide industry's playbook for avoiding neonicotinoid bans
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Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
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App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
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Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois
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Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting Australian government's bushfire response
Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting government's bushfire response Here's the advertisement itself: https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1213330419044638722 For the non-Aussies,...
Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting government's bushfire response
Here's the advertisement itself: https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1213330419044638722
For the non-Aussies, and for the Aussies who aren't political tragics like me... the reason everyone's up in arms is that this video has been released by the Liberal Party, not by the Australian government. We can tell by the "Authorised by" statement in the final frame. Government information comes with the Commonwealth coat of arms and says "Authorised by the Australian Government, Canberra". Party political advertisements have to be "authorised by" someone within the political party. In other words, this is a political ad, not a government press release. The Liberal Party (not the government!) is promoting itself on the basis of what the government is doing for the bushfires.
Scott Morrison has already been an utter failure during this crisis. He went on holiday after the fires started. He's done as little as possible since he returned. And people have noticed. People have abused him when he turned up to visit their town. People have literally refused to shake his hand (but he grabs their hands and shakes them anyway!).
But, despite all this wrong-footedness, this new advertisement is the most tone-deaf thing he's done (so far!). It reflects his background in marketing. Everything's a message for him. Unfortunately for him, the message here is "I'm using your suffering to promote myself".
Scott Morrison has fucked up yet again.
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New tourism ad for Australia: "Matesong" featuring Kylie Minogue
I just discovered this new tourist advertisement for Australia. It's sung (mostly) by Kylie Minogue, and aimed directly at a British (English?) audience. As an Aussie, I found a few moments in...
I just discovered this new tourist advertisement for Australia. It's sung (mostly) by Kylie Minogue, and aimed directly at a British (English?) audience.
As an Aussie, I found a few moments in this ad to smile at.
6 votes