Month: February 2023

Yelp CFO David Schwarzbach noted that while demand for home-service providers has softened since the middle of the pandemic, companies have been spending more on advertising.

The revenue slump was partly offset by higher Dow Jones revenues, company says.

“It’s almost as if Facebook and Gibson Dunn spent the better part of three years trying to gaslight their opponents, not to mention the court,” U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria wrote.

When it comes to national television measurement used for the buying and selling of commercial time, Nielsen is an industry-mandated monopoly. While potential competitors have periodically emerged,
they failed to sustain enough support to survive – not necessarily because Nielsen did anything to impede them, but because advertisers and networks have been unwilling to pay for multiple sources to
provide similar national TV audience data. While there have been occasional calls for change, the industry’s unwillingness to support any real competition to Nielsen, along with networks and media
agencies continuing to sign long-term Nielsen contracts, make the status quo is hard to budge. In this week’s edition, I review the history of alternatives to Nielsen, how Nielsen has responded to
them and what the industry needs to do to truly improve audience measurement for the future.

Lawmakers in the Senate are questioning Meta Platforms about the ability of China, Russia and other countries to access data about U.S. users of the social media platform.

Privacy laws that require companies to obtain consumers’ consent don’t go far enough, a new report from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication suggests.

Cantor Fitzgerald helps oversee a $39 billion Treasury portfolio that makes up the lion’s share of the stablecoin’s reserves.

Oil prices rose after Russia said it planned to cut production.

Instagram allows users to search for specific messages in conversations, rather than requiring them to scroll through their message history to find something that was previously said. Our guide will show you how to search for messages in chats in the Instagram mobile application. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Instagram app on iOS….

Ahead of Super Bowl LVII, Meta released new chat themes in the Instagram mobile application that add NFL-themed backgrounds and colors to conversations. There are three chat themes to choose from: “Super Bowl,” “Kansas City Chiefs” and “Philadelphia Eagles.” Our guide will show you how to use the Super Bowl LVII chat themes in the…