Month: July 2024

With a week under their collective belts to absorb Google’s surprising, but not shocking news, that it’s doing an about-face on deprecating third-party cookies from its browsers, media agencies large and small are choosing to press ahead as if cookies are going away — especially since they kind of are anyway. 

Media agencies’ main message to clients is to focus on generating quality, usable first-party data that’s compliant, because privacy issues are rendering cookies more and more useless. 

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At Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Trump is finally telling crypto enthusiasts what they want to hear.

Appearing onstage at the Bitcoin 2024 conference, Trump also promised to “fire” SEC chair Gary Gensler, set up a crypto advisory council, and make the United States the “crypto capital of the world.”

Hospital shows history of breaking — from Bronx hallway to Olympics sport — in a lively, inspirational spot that takes a sudden, awkward turn at end.

DC went to YC to talk OS.

New OpenAI search features that reply to queries with timely information and source links are being tested by a limited number of users. The company calls the tool a “temporary prototype.”

Lead Generation Ads on Reddit moved into public beta this week. The ad format integrates with the AI automation platform Zapier to collect “high-quality leads” signaled by opt-in information provided
by Reddit users.