Month: November 2019

Many Americans have little to no understanding of what companies are doing with the data that is collected about them. At the same time, nearly all Americans encounter companies’ privacy policies at some point. This survey explores whether they fully read them and how much they understand about these policies. Most Americans have been asked […]

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Last month Google rolled out first-price auctions, which–because they are Google–means that now everyone else will follow suit. First-price will be the universal method for the $48 billion programmatic market. To provide some perspective, that’s the same size as organic food sales in the U.S., the cannabis market worldwide and the entire wearables industry. First-price…

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.–Much of the marketing and advertising in the travel industry is aspirational: feet in the sand, chilled daiquiris and nary a worry. At least, that’s the idea–but in the real world, even before customers arrive on a beach, one lost suitcase can derail an entire trip. It’s stories like that which made Alexander…

Instagram has helped blur the lines between personal branding and personal life—such as by encouraging people to turn their profiles into businesses.

Two cable news channels — Fox News Channel and MSNBC — posted the best overall viewing numbers on the first day of House hearings. These daytime numbers are more than double what these networks
usually receive in the time period.

The first public hearing of the 2019 Presidential Impeachment Inquiry generated an estimated 13.8 million people, according to a Nielsen analysis of its “fast national” ratings for the measured
networks that televised it on Wednesday.

The ANA has unveiled a new campaign to help persuade college kids that there’s a future for them in the world of advertising and marketing.

A large majority of Americans feel that religion is losing influence in public life, according to a 2019 Pew Research Center survey.

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Americans largely have positive feelings about the role religion plays in American life. A slim majority of U.S. adults say religious organizations do more good than harm in American society, while just one-in-five say they do more harm than good. Specifically, roughly half of Americans give religious organizations high marks when it comes to strengthening […]

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A majority of U.S. adults think religious leaders have high or very high ethical standards (65%). And among those who attend religious services at least a few times a year, an even larger share have similarly positive ratings about the ethical behavior of the clergy at their congregation (88%). The survey also finds that a […]

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