Month: December 2023

As part of a settlement with a horse welfare nonprofit, Amazon will no longer sell products containing “ejiao,” which is made with donkey skin.

Instagram Reels outperformed TikTok clips, Facebook Reels and all other branded video content on Instagram, according to the report. For the first time, Emplifi also found that longer Reels are
driving more views than shorter Reels, marking a potential shift in consumer viewing habits.

Google plans to further consolidate staff through possible layoffs and to reassign employees in its customer sales unit who oversee relationships with major advertisers.

Media is the only area of advertising/brand strategy projected to move more in-house, according to a new World Federation of Advertisers study.

Hotel prices and tourism numbers are up as New York City goes through its first holiday season with new rules that ban nearly all Airbnbs and other short-term rentals.

Most digital pros said they will prioritize social media and digital video/CTV in the year ahead.

“Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic” on CBS is exuberant, entertaining, exciting and exhausting.

The global restrictions will take effect by early 2024 in time for elections in the U.S., India and South Africa. Google said it would use AI more to serve voters and campaigns related to these
elections.

Big Tech data centers are not only being used to power the internet but also to heat people’s homes. But who’s really winning when Facebook keeps you warm at night?

Google’s doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. Insiders say the results were mixed, as pressure mounts for a federal privacy law.