Posts tagged with: Facebook

Brand safety means different things to different brands. For some, even the most kamikaze stunts can be brand safe, but you will never know unless you have a real conversation with the marketer, and you won’t be able to act...
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The growth of digital media has created tremendous opportunities for publishers to reach and monetize audiences across the web. However, the industry’s obsession with scale has brought challenges, such as platform vulnerability and not knowing their audience, leading publishers to...
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  • Facebook: Death by a billion deactivations
Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg told NBC News that without data-targeted ads, Facebook would look like a pay service. Aleksandra Michalska reports. The website that has defined a generation is dying a slow death. When Facebook first launched on...
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  • Facebook limits ad targeting after Cambridge Analytica data leak
Facebook faces the dilemma of losing trust and even users in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica data leak. Jefferson Graham reports. SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is taking steps to restore users’ trust in how it handles their data in...
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This morning, Facebook responded to the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal by announcing a series of changes to its privacy settings—essentially making it easier for users to find them, control what they share, and download and delete their data. The company—which...
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  • Facebook and Google Face Emboldened Antagonists: Big Advertisers
Add to the list of people frustrated with Facebook Inc. FB (-2.61%) and Google a quiet but hugely influential group—the people who pay the bills. In the past year and a half, the two firms have had one run-in after...
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In an interview this morning with CNN , Mark Zuckerberg profusely apologized on behalf of Facebook, for the role his company played in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. “This was a major breach of trust and I’m really sorry this happened,”...
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Google was in Facebook’s position—apologizing—not too long ago. (Reuters/Baz Ratner) As top brass holed up yesterday to deal with the fallout from data privacy revelations that erased more than in two day, its top rival, , was addressing the two...
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  • Facebook Exec Addresses Cambridge Analytica Breach and Offers Tips to Marketers on Using Its Platform
Despite the news about how one firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used Facebook to collect user data on about 50 million Facebook users, top executives have mostly remained silent on the topic. That was until Carolyn Everson, vp, global marketing solutions...
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A British data analytics firm known for helping political campaigns including Donald Trump’s presidential bid, has been suspended from using Facebook’s advertising platform. Facebook late on Friday said the firm, Cambridge Analytica, violated company policies related to collecting user data....
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