17 posts tagged ‘Advertising’
Ads When You Start Your Fire TV
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Luke Bouma (Hacker News): Amazon is adding full-screen video ads that will play when you start your Fire TV unless you quickly perform an action on it.This new update will be rolling out to all Fire TVs made in 2016 or newer. With this update, the ad at the top of your Fire TV will […]
Slower Chrome Extension Updates
Ron Amadeo (via Hacker News): Google’s war on ad blockers is just gearing up, with YouTube doing its best to detect and block ad blockers and Chrome aiming to roll out the ad block-limiting Manifest V3 extension platform in June 2024. A new article from Engadget detailing the “arms race” over ad blocking brings up […]
YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown
Paresh Dave (Hacker News, Reddit): In early October, the people who make ad blocking tools convened in Amsterdam for their industry’s annual conference. One session was a welcome pitch from Google product leaders about tweaks made to address fears that a security update to the company’s Chrome browser could hamper ad zapping. Google, which draws […]
Apple Asked Amazon to Block Rival Ads
Eugene Kim (via Hacker News): Apple’s latest products directly sold by Amazon have a much cleaner page layout on Amazon with no ads or recommendations until the very bottom of the page, an Insider review of the e-commerce site shows. Most other brands don’t get this special treatment, according to people familiar with the matter, […]
Paris Hilton joins brand exodus from Twitter/X, halts advertising
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Paris Hilton is the latest famous name to join the mass brand exodus from Twitter/X. Following Apple, Disney, Comcast, IBM, Warner Bros., Paramount, and Lionsgate's departure from the platform, Hilton's 11:11 Media announced it was halting advertising on the platform. "11:11 Media made the decision to immediately pull the campaign from the platform," Bruce Gersh, 11:11 Media's president and chief operating officer, told CNN. — Read the rest
Say Goodbye to Those Absurd Side-Effects Readouts in Drug Commercials
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Drug commercials in the U.S. are set to become more intelligible. On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration updated its regulations regarding prescription drug ads that air on TV or radio. The change will specifically mandate that a drug’s side effects and other potential dangers “must be presented in a clear,… Read more...
Google AdSense Changes From CPC to CPM
Dan Taylor (via Hacker News): Today, website owners use a combination of direct sales, ad networks and sell-side platforms to sell their ad space, often using multiple technologies simultaneously. This is why we are making two changes: updating AdSense’s revenue-share structure and moving to paying publishers by impression. These changes will provide a consistent way […]
Dischler Testimony on AdWords Fraud
Adi Robertson: As the second week of the US v. Google antitrust trial gets underway, the Department of Justice is focusing on the real moneymaker behind Google Search: ads. It alleges that Google’s dominance lets it raise prices for advertisers with few repercussions — a claim backed up by Google ads executive Jerry Dischler on […]