Month: April 2022

Twitch allows users to turn on a variety of chat filters that are designed to hide different kinds of offensive or mature content from the platform’s chat windows. For instance, users can turn on a chat filter related to “Hostility.” Our guide will show you how to turn on chat filters from within the Twitch…

Growth in North America remained strong at 8.1%, where data unit Epsilon was called out as a key performer. Digital transformation division Publicis Sapient was also cited as a key contributor with
16.3% growth (and 18.5% growth globally).

The wild-card entrepreneur — now Twitter’s biggest stakeholder, as well as the world’s richest person — made an offer valuing Twitter at $43 billion. Twitter says it will “carefully review” the
proposal.

Three industry leaders were asked to, “define impression.” They gave three distinctly different answers.

This year, independent media agency Crossmedia (XM) has already had 10 boomerang employees–former employees who come back. Matt Schroeder is one of them. He left XM in May 2021 to work at Omnicom’s OMD and Accenture before returning to XM last month as a managing director of the agency’s analytics and data arm, Redbox. XM’s…

With just a couple weeks to go until the NewFronts presentations, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has unveiled the final schedule for the event, which will have an in-person presence for the first time in three years. The 2022 NewFronts will take place in a hybrid format–three days of in-person presentations, followed by a day of…

Reddit detailed several improvements to the search functionality on its platform, highlighted by the global rollout of comment search. The company explained in a blog post, “At Reddit, one thing we think about every day is how we can make it easier for people to find and engage in communities, content and conversations. Over the…

In a move counter to the prevailing trends toward reader revenue in the media industry, the global business publisher Quartz announced Thursday morning that it is removing the paywall from its website to focus more on driving members via its email newsletters. This effectively reverses its May 2019 decision to grant unlimited access to its…

“Algorithms are profiling children and teens to serve them images, memes and videos encouraging restrictive diets and extreme weight loss,” Fairplay says in a new report.