Month: October 2019

Did you know that Nextdoor allows you to control the kinds of notifications you receive through emails? Our guide will show you how this works. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Nextdoor application on iOS. Step 1: Tap the three horizontal lines in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Step 2: Scroll down and…

The Newseum, the museum devoted to journalism and the freedoms associated with the First Amendment, will fold at the end of the year. The museum, which sits near the National Mall in Washington D.C., will close its doors Dec. 31. The Newseum’s mission to highlight journalism included exhibits devoted to showcasing Pulitzer Prize-winning photography, the…

Two places you’re almost certain to find single-use plastics (other than, you know, everywhere) are concerts and the beach. Musical performances are reliant on disposable bottles and cups for drinks, and ocean life often pays the price for similar behaviors by vacationers. Now agency Havas London is partnering with its Vivendi sister company in the…

Getting news from social media is an increasingly common experience; nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults do so often.

The post Americans Are Wary of the Role Social Media Sites Play in Delivering the News appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Getting news from social media is an increasingly common experience; nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults do so often.

The post Americans Are Wary of the Role Social Media Sites Play in Delivering the News appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Digital product agency Work & Co has acquired Tendigi, a 10-person firm that specializes in mobile app development. Tendigi founder and CEO Jeff Soto will join Work & Co as a director, as will the company’s chief technology officer Nick Lee. The Tendigi team will move into Work & Co’s offices in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood….

Nearly all Americans acknowledge that social networks have at least some control over the mix of news that people see, and most of them are not happy with this development, according to a recent survey by Pew Research Center. Pew surveyed 5,107 U.S. adults between July 8 and 21, and it found that 88% recognized…

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will come into force in January 2020 and as the media industry scrambles for solutions to bring more transparency to data brokerage, research shows marked consumer resistance to ad tech. The wording of CCPA obliges websites to inform visitors of how their data is shared with third parties, such…

By at least one representative measure — share of video ads served by ad server Extreme Reach — connected TV has achieved critical mass, accounting for 50% of all ad impressions served in its Q2
2019 “Video Benchmarks” report. While that’s an explicit universe and not necessarily representative of average U.S. video consumption or ads delivered to viewers, it nonetheless is a telling
milestone from a company that has been tracking the evolution of video ad serving in recent years.

FreeWheel reportedly asserted to a congressional task force that Google is using privacy issues as a pretext for impeding FreeWheel’s ability to sell ads for its clients’ YouTube channels.