Month: February 2018

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is relocating his home and personal investment firms to Los Angeles from San Francisco and scaling back his involvement in the tech industry, people familiar with his thinking said, marking a rupture between Silicon Valley and its most prominent conservative.

A mass shooting in Little Rock, Ark., last July led Facebook to activate its Safety Check feature–a crisis-response system that is gaining new recognition in the aftermath of terror. The social media tool invites users to mark themselves as safe and send requests to others in the region–those listed as “not marked as safe yet.”…

A day after the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats released the U.S. intelligence agencies’ 2018 Worldwide Threat Assessment, highlighting how digital media has become a vector for a variety
of national security threats, a new report revealed the prevalence of malicious code worldwide, as well as in the U.S.

The Y (formerly the YMCA) is launching a new content series called “My Y Story” demonstrating the value of its various offerings to individuals and communities, featuring actor Ethan Hawke, Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix and celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson. Catalyst Public Relations worked with The Y on the new “My Y Story” content series….

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Disney’s bet on BAMTech could signal big advancements for its data and platform strategy. The streaming video provider, once majority-owned by MLB Advanced Media, proved such a valuable investment to Disney that it acquired an additional 42% stake in the company for $1.6 billion in August. It previously owned a 33% stake in BAMTech. “Disney… Continue reading »

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Data providers have embraced an alternative way of buying audience segments: selling data as a percentage of media rather than transacting on CPMs. Instead of buying data at a fixed rate per thousand impressions, a percent-of-media model ties the cost of data to the cost of media. An advertiser, for instance, is unlikely to spend… Continue reading »

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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 Barry Lowenthal, president at The Media Kitchen. Media agencies are used to talking to clients about the strength of their publisher relationships. In fact, I think agencies used to brag about… Continue reading »

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Protect And Serve Facebook quietly embedded an app-install link from its iOS app menu to Onavo, a VPN app for malware security Facebook acquired in 2013. Users who click “Protect” in the Facebook navigation bar are sent to the app page. But data security… Continue reading »

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