Moments of crisis lead to unexpected innovation. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 led to the invention of the skyscraper in Chicago; the world’s cities would never look the same. World War II gave us radar and the atomic bomb, but also penicillin and t
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News UK, one of the UK’s biggest news publishers and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Murdoch’s News Corp conglomerate, is launching News Live, a new standalone events business that will develop new live experiences as well as managing the media group’s
Improving the experience of our users is always a top priority at The Washington Post. With Google’s focus on user-centric performance metrics via new page experience signals called Core Web Vitals (CWV), we can better monitor and iterate on those ex
Now, nearly a year after the conclusion of the program, the early results suggest reason for optimism. After applying the insights it gleaned from its time in the GNI Subs Lab, the U.K.-based publisher has seen a 750% increase in monthly registration
Advertisers are ready to buy TV like they buy digital, says Dave Clark, general manager of Comcast-owned FreeWheel, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks.
As digital-like capabilities rapidly come online in the TV space – like
Recent reporting suggests Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented different versions of its policies in private and public.
The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that Facebook treats users’ posts differently depending on their wealth, privile
IAB Tech Lab, the digital advertising technical standards-setting body, announced today the ads.cert 2.0, a standard introduced to enhance security in the digital advertising ecosystem by using industry-standard cryptographic security protocols.
In our culture, gamers are stereotyped as young, isolated, antisocial men. The popular imagination of a gamer is a teenage boy in his mom’s basement. [...] But there are 3.2 billion gamers in the world—nearly half the planet’s population—and the ster
Google will no longer use last-click attribution as the default conversion model in Google Ads, its buy-side ad network, the company announced in a blog post on Monday.
The Washington Post on Tuesday launched an ad network as part of its Zeus advertising technology business, executives told Axios. The network has been in the works for two years.
Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan signaled changes are on the way in how the agency scrutinizes acquisitions after revealing the results of a study of a decade's worth of Big Tech company deals that weren't reported to the agency.
Wunderman Thompson Intelligence presents "Into the Metaverse," a new report exploring the consumer behaviors, business models and brand opportunities that are emerging as the metaverse takes shape.
As more of our lives are spent online, it’s becoming
The UK's information commissioner is to ask some of the most powerful countries in the world to join forces against cookie pop-ups online.
The Data Science Expert Group is a collaborative network of news media professionals working in data science, analytics and engineering. Its goal is to arm practitioners with powerful journalism analytics built around newsroom priorities to grow aud
The Media Rating Council (MRC) may have stripped Nielsen of its National and Local TV accreditation last week, but it also made another significant announcement: It is now defining over-the-top as connected TV.
The convergence of TV, streaming and digital video has complicated the advertising marketplace in many ways. Among them is managing the ads that are running across TV networks, streaming services, connected TV and digital video platforms and publishe
As Big Tech’s market power grew, so did its political clout. Now, as the EU tries to rein in the most problematic aspects of Big Tech – from disinformation, targeted advertising to unfair competition practices – the digital giants are lobbying hard t
South Korea’s parliament has approved on the 31st of August 2021 a bill that prohibits Apple and Google from forcing app developers to only use their proprietary billing systems. The bill is an amendment to South Korea’s Telecommunications Business A
Beijing has legitimate reasons to rein in giants such as Didi and Ant Group.
by David Doty
Here we go again. Another Congress, another administration, another misguided push by politicos in D.C. focused on controlling the marketplace and breaking up Big Tech, supposedly to advance innovation and consumer interests. The proble
The Commission has proposed today an ambitious reform of the digital space, a comprehensive set of new rules for all digital services, including social media, online market places, and other online platforms that operate in the European Union:…