Posts filed under: Facebook

  • Facebook now forcing disclosure of every ad from every brand
Brand pages will now link to all the ads for that brand currently running on Facebook. Credit: Facebook Facebook is now showing every ad from every brand running on its platform, part of a new transparency push to fight the...
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  • The Rise of Social Ad Fraud and How to Combat It
Despite being engulfed in several scandals of late—especially the widely-publicized Cambridge Analytica scandal that resulted in its founder having to testify before Congress —Facebook reported its second-largest quarter ever in terms of revenue generated in the first quarter of 2018,...
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Last October, Facebook announced that it would start requiring advertisers to disclose their identities when purchasing space on the social network. Now, according to a report at Politico , the company is going global with the feature this week in...
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  • Times, Sun, Guardian and Telegraph create joint advertising platform to compete with Facebook and Google duopoly
Three leading UK national news publishers have combined forces to create a jointly-owned advertising platform which they hope will build a “better digital ecosystem” for publishers and readers. The Telegraph, Guardian News and Media, and News UK, which publishes the...
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Adobe Advertising Cloud Is Now Also Able to Target Digital Audio Ads on Smart Speakers Across Hundreds of TuneIn’s Owned-And-Operated Stations In the Americas: Facebook is on a decline. But, radio on smart speakers is on the rise. There has...
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There’s no doubt this year’s Cannes Lions festival is a more subdued affair than it’s been in years past, but it isn’t just ad agencies and ad tech vendors pulling back — it’s Facebook and Google, too. Google and Facebook...
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The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation’s enforcement May 25 has hurled the digital media and advertising industries into a tailspin. Since the early hours of May 25, ad exchanges have seen European ad demand volumes plummet between 25...
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  • How Digital Advertisers Are Adapting Habits to Reach Audiences That Prefer TV
Last month, Facebook launched a massive campaign to restore public confidence in the wake of its privacy crisis. Called “Here Together,” the campaign stretches across TV networks and cinemas throughout the 50 largest markets in the U.S. In an age...
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  • How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men
Once, Mad Men ruled advertising. They’ve now been eclipsed by Math Men—the engineers and data scientists whose province is machines, algorithms, pureed data, and artificial intelligence. Yet Math Men are beleaguered, as Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated when he humbled himself before...
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  • Facebook's data scandal isn't scaring away advertisers, says Publicis CEO
Facebook’s data privacy scandal has done little to deter advertisers from the social media platform, according to a major ad firm. Publicis Media CEO Steve King told CNBC that Facebook has experienced an erosion of trust after allegations that right-wing...
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