Month: August 2024

When it comes to building out a search ads business, Reddit is staying tight-lipped. But all the recent moves the platform has made suggest that it’s a matter of when, not if, it’ll happen.

Among the clues are five key signals that strongly suggest this move is just around the corner.

Reddit’s recent hire from a certain search engine

What better way to dive deep (and fast) into the world of search, than to hire someone directly from the number one search engine in the world? Reddit recently announced that it had hired Jyoti Vaidee as its vp of ad product. In Vaidee’s 11 years at Google, her responsibilities included overseeing product listing ads and dynamic shopping ads.

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This week’s Future of TV Briefing takes a visual look at the state of streaming ads.

• Data stream
• Olympics increase streaming watch time
• Fubo vs. Venu, animators v. AI, Byron Allen vs. bills and more

Data stream

The dog days of August are as good a time as any to step back and assess the state of things. And there have been a number of recent studies surrounding the TV, streaming and video ad landscape that seem to lay out the current conditions. So here’s a selection of charts that sum up the situation.

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Business groups are asking a federal appeals court to scrap the Federal Communications Commission’s recent open internet order, which largely reinstated the Obama-era net neutrality rules.

Siding against Google, a federal appellate court on Tuesday revived a privacy lawsuit brought by Chrome users who said the company wrongly gathered information about their web-browsing activity.

Why would the Republicans jump all over Walz when Donald Trump offers a much bigger target – for not just lack of service, but also mocking those who have served?

Citing the First Amendment, a coalition of Texas students and organizations is seeking to block a new state law that prohibits social media platforms from serving “harmful” content to minors.

The media company joins The Atlantic, Axel Springer, Vox Media, and a host of other publishers who have partnered with OpenAI.

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New research reveals how brands like Google and Dove are tapping cultural richness, blending heritage and modernity.

Until Jan. 6, 2021, America had experienced the peaceful transfer of power. Last night, it witnessed the first altruistic, patriotic transfer during the opening night of the Democratic National
Convention. “America, I gave my best to you,” President Joe Biden said, capping off his keynote endorsement of Kamala Harris to succeed him.