Month: January 2018

AT&T’s CEO, in an open letter, called on Congress to clarify the repeal of net-neutrality rules while also imposing new regulations on tech titans such as Google and Facebook.

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“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Adam Schenkel, vice president of programmatic at GumGum. The end of the fourth quarter and the start of Q1 are full of planning conversations with brands, agencies and publisher partners.… Continue reading »

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The customers subjected to the “Whopper Neutrality” experiment expressed confusion, frustration, and in some cases, considerable anger — but also said the experience helped them better understand
the somewhat complex net neutrality issue.

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Conde Nast wants to quickly build up its data science practice, so it acquired Lighthouse Datalab on Monday. In so doing, it added three people to its data science team who will enhance the machine-learning and AI capabilities of Spire, its data platform. Lighthouse Datalab founder Sriram Subramanian will serve as head of data science… Continue reading »

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“Good evening, everybody. It may be time to declare war outright against the deep state and clear out the rot in the upper levels of the FBI and the Justice Department.” That’s how Fox Business
Channel host Lou Dobbs opened his segment Tuesday, calling on his viewers to prepare for war against our nation’s top law-enforcement agency and our justice system.

There’s no shortage of predictions at the start of a new year, especially for marketers. Deciding where to invest your time and money is hard enough without long lists of flash-in-the-pan fads and experimental tactics. So, when we produce our annual Social Trends Report at Hootsuite, we focus our analysis on trends that are both…

Seven-year-old content marketing firm Percolate is growing up. The company is bringing on digital marketing vet Randy Wootton as CEO to help ramp up the business to attract a different clientele, namely enterprise companies like Adobe, Salesforce and IBM. Current CEO (and co-founder) Noah Brier is heading back to his roots as the company’s chief…

Last week, Squarespace announced that Keanu Reeves would star in the company’s 30-second Super Bowl spot. In a new 15-second teaser for the ad, Reeves has gone out to the desert to reflect and build his website next to a fire. Squarespace’s in-house creative team created the 30-second spot, which kicks off a campaign that…

The same number of networks will compete for next year’s “Thursday Night Football” package — and that the entire rights fee package for the regular season series may stay about the same or even drop
versus a year ago.