Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act

Google is taking action to weed out scam artists who advertise on its platform aiming to defraud customers seeking technical support by masquerading as authorized service agents for companies such as Apple.

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Twitter Revises Political Ads, Gives News Orgs Exemptions

Trying to appease news organizations, Twitter is offering them exemptions from its newly revised political and legislative ad policy. For everyone else, Twitter’s new Issue Ads Policy and
certification process will impact ads that refer to an election or a clearly identified candidate.

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MediaMonks Unveils New Labs Operation

The new unit will focus on innovation and rapid prototyping and is already working on projects using AI, VR, voice technology and other cutting-edge techniques for clients like Google and Nickelodeon.

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Senator Targets Google, Asks FTC To Review Its Business Practices

President Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the White House would investigate and analyze the way Google’s algorithms work in terms of ranking content from publishers in search results,
without providing further details.

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‘Trump’ Ranks Poorly On Fox News In Google Search Results

CNN.com appears to have about twice the SEO visibility of FoxNews.com. Backlinks in the articles and links and posts in social sites seem to contribute to that increase, according to data released
Thursday.

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Mastercard Helps Power Google Attribution – Here’s Who Else Supplies Purchase Data

While Google said in May it was using purchase data from unnamed payment processors to link online ads to transactions, Bloomberg discovered Thursday that one partner is Mastercard. To recap, Google is using purchase data for its attribution tool, formerly known as Adometry and recently rebranded as Google Attribution 360. It is integrated with severalContinue reading »

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NFL Provides More Streaming Options For Cord-Cutting Fans

Tweaks to existing deals and some new options mean football fans get their fill of live games — even if they don’t have a cable or satellite subscription.

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FEMA, Ad Council Get ‘Ready’ For September

In this latest iteration of the public service “Ready” campaign, Facebook’s Creative Shop is responsible for much of the ad content that includes a series of animated videos featuring objects left
behind after disasters.

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