The 2018-19 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship tournament will come to an end with the crowning of a champion Monday night at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, and Twitter is ready to guide fans through the Final Four. Final Four Twitter Live will be livestreamed exclusively on Twitter via @marchmadness at 6 p.m. ET…
Verve’s Struggle Pivoting To Programmatic Video Contributes To More Layoffs
Verve’s big bet on programmatic video last year doesn’t appear to be panning out. This week, less than one year after acquiring in-app video company Receptiv, Verve experienced its second round of layoffs in just three months, letting 30 staffers go this week, Adweek reported. Sources tell AdExchanger that Verve is also behind on its… Continue reading »
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GumGum’s Founder Is Stepping Down to Lead the Company’s Dental Division Spin-Off
GumGum, an artificial intelligence and computer vision company used by marketers for brand safety, is getting deeper into the teeth business. California-based GumGum is spinning off its dental division into an independent business, which the company said will continue developing AI services for the dental industry. As part of the spin-off, GumGum founder Ophir Tanz…
How Amazon Can Succeed with Earbuds Where It Failed with Phones
Amazon is reportedly developing Alexa-enabled earbuds to take on Apple’s AirPods. Analysts say it has a chance to succeed–but only if it learns from its mistakes with the Fire Phone. Citing “people with knowledge of the plans,” Bloomberg reported Amazon’s earbuds will have similar functionality (although the ecommerce platform is shooting for superior sound quality)…
Twitter Reversed Course and Will Allow #OuiJeVote Ads in France, Encouraging Voter Registration
Twitter rolled back its ban on political ads in France during the run-up to the European Union Parliamentary elections in May in order to permit ads that encourage French citizens to register to vote. The country passed a law last December requiring that political ads posted on social platforms must include labels clearly defining them…
The Tricky Ethics of Google’s Cloud Ambitions
Google trails Amazon and Microsoft in selling cloud services to other companies, but its efforts to catch up may be hindered by its own ethics policies.
A BBC Investigation Turned Up Extensive Child Predator Activity on TikTok
Just weeks after being hit with a record $5.7 million fine from the Federal Trade Commission for collecting personal information from children under the age of 13 without parental consent, TikTok finds itself in hot water yet again, this time for more serious issues related to kids across the pond. Marco Silva of BBC Trending…
W+K Launches Another Whimsical Animated Film That Shows Oregon’s Quirky Majesty
Last spring, Travel Oregon, with its agency Wieden + Kennedy Portland, introduced a fantastical, animated world that showed the state in a “slightly exaggerated” way. There were giant rabbits cavorting in rainbow fields of tulips, whales swimming through sun-kissed skies…and a few more quirky embellishments about the unique nature of life in Oregon. Today, Travel…
What brands need to know about buying third-party ecommerce data
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