Month: August 2024

Character.AI co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer will return to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to create a startup that X owner Elon Musk had been rumored to want to acquire.

TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting data from users under the age of 13, the Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday.

Call it a major GMC oopsey. Google Merchant Center (GMC), Google’s hub for commerce advertising and analytics, has been accidentally cross-pollinating data – including unencrypted customer and product info – between accounts on the platform going back at least two weeks, according to three ecommerce consultants and ad agency execs who each manage numerous GMC […]

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The social media company, already fighting for its existence in the US, now has to contend with a potentially expensive penalty stemming from its policies toward users under 13.

The 5th Circuit rejected Mississippi’s request to immediately enforce a law that would prohibit minors from creating social media accounts without parental permission.

Advertising has emerged as one of the biggest profit generators, Amazon said Thursday. Most ad sales continue to come from sponsored product listings across its online store.

Dating and lifestyle app BLK, which focuses on the Black community, teamed with nonprofit partners on a campaign to empower young Black voters.

The Trade Desk has inked a major deal for its open-source identity graph Unified ID 2.0 to be used across Roku’s premium streaming inventory, to give the streaming platform’s advertisers more precise
targeting for campaigns.

Disney Advertising has concluded its upfront deals, with volume and revenue up 5% vs. a year ago for all its linear/streaming digital platforms. A rough estimate projects its deal-making volume for
the new TV season at $9.45 billion.

The firm spent an estimated $320 million on measured media last year, according to agency research firm COMvergence.