8 Days In, Olympics Yields Dip In Viewer Numbers

Prime-time viewing of this year’s Olympics is down 7% to 22.6 million when looking at all NBC platforms — NBC Television Network, sport cable network NBCSN, and viewing from NBC’s digital platforms
— from Sochi Winter Olympics 24.3 million.

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How Brands Can Take Advantage of Instagram Stories

Once Instagram launched Stories in August 2016, the feature spread like wildfire. As of November 2017, Instagram Stories topped 300 million daily users. Instagram Stories offer social marketers a great opportunity to reach a higher number of people by taking advantage of one of the fastest-growing social networks. Instagram has reported that Stories have encouraged…

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Who’s Backing The Chain Gang?

It’s been nearly a year since I published my first story about blockchain technology being offered as a solution for Madison Avenue’s media-trading woes, and the marketplace has turned into quite a,
well, chain gang. We’ve published about 100 stories about blockchain since then and judging by the rest of the trade and consumer press, it’s on the cusp of being this year’s “Big Data,”
“programmatic,” or “transparency” in terms of industry buzzwords that people sort of understand, but fundamentally end up scratching their head about. I’m not willing to bet any crypto — yet — that
“blockchain” will rank as the Association of National Advertisers’ “Marketing Word of the Year,” but I have to believe it is a contender based on the reaction to Unilever’s disclosure at the IAB
conference last week, that it’s working with IBM to deploy a blockchain that will create a more secure trading infrastructure for its nearly $10 billion a year in marketing spending.

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Google Search Removes ‘View Image,’ Sets Precedent

Removing the option to preview an image without visiting the site that hosts it sets an interesting precedent that could extend into publishers’ content and material with copyrights on other sites.

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Digital Advertising Still Growing A Market For Data

The U.S. is forecast to remain the world’s largest data market in 2018, spending more than $11.4 billion. The UK will become the second-largest world data market, with more than $1.6 billion in
spend.

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Get Real: Digital Media Should Run Local TV News

Facebook, Twitter and Google, just put down those potential news stories and do what you do best: Get of the way and let professionals take the wheel — and/or oversight. In-house journalists, news
producers and editors are not your forte.

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String Theories: We’re Living In Cass Sunstein’s World, Get Used To It

Whether you’re on the left, endlessly digging into how the Russians “hacked” the last election, or on the right, persistently pushing the idea that Seth Rich leaked DNC emails and got killed for it,
we’ve got a paradoxical, polarizing, paranoid conspiracy theory for you!

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How Mars Petcare Uses Data To Connect The Dogs

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You probably don’t think of Mars Petcare as a center for startup incubation. It owns a lot of brands you can buy at a local grocery store, including Pedigree and Whiskas. But in 2000, it bought Royal Canin, a pet food brand focused on health care, and, more recently, a string of veterinary clinics. So,Continue reading »

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Reproducibility in Deep Reinforcement Learning – Prof. Pineau – NIPS2017

Reproducibility in Deep Reinforcement Learning - Prof. Pineau - NIPS2017
Prof. Pineau presented her paper Reproducibility in Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning at the 2017 conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

Joelle Pineau is an associate professor of Computer Science at McGill University where she co-directs the Reasoning and Learning Lab.
Recorded: December 7th, 2017
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