How Social Metrics Can Lure Brands Into a Repetitive Rut

With the help of a squadron of digital tools, brands are chasing their tails. Like people in your Facebook feed, brands respond to positive feedback. Likes, clicks and other shallow metrics drive the content brands create each month. They’re easier to access, easier to understand and easier to act on. Success with your Instagram picture…

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Drawbridge Exits Media Business In Europe Before GDPR Storms The Castle

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The cross-device identity company Drawbridge abandoned its advertising business in the EU and is trying to reconcile its data business with GDPR regulations beginning in May. Drawbridge founder and CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan confirmed the company’s reversals in Europe in an email to AdExchanger. Drawbridge will transition its EU partner services to the company’s New YorkContinue reading »

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Facebook Messenger: Here’s How to Mute a Single Conversation

In addition to allowing users to temporarily turn off notifications for all of their conversations at once, did you know that Facebook Messenger also allows users to mute individual conversations temporarily, or even indefinitely? When a user mutes a conversation, they won’t be notified when they receive new messages. Our guide will show you how…

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Qualcomm, Huawei in Talks to Settle Patent-Royalty Dispute

Qualcomm is in talks to settle a dispute with Huawei Technologies, which has been withholding a hefty stream of royalty payments from the chip maker

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Fox To Dramatically Cut Prime-Time Ads, Increase Brand Content

By 2020, the Fox network has a goal to cut prime-time advertising time from around 13 minutes an hour to two minutes, according to media executives.

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Nickelodeon Adds Augmented Reality To Mobile Properties

Nickelodeon’s Sky Whale app, its most popular mobile property, is getting a shot of AR. Presently, the app averages 2 million active monthly users and has racked up nearly 30 million downloads since
its launch.

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Why NewsGuard, Aimed At Fighting Fake News, Won’t Work

It’s a good idea with great intentions. But not even the $6 million raised to launch NewsGuard can help without the buy-in of Google, Bing, Facebook, Twitter and other big sites.

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Google To Cancel Inactive AdWords Accounts

The goal is to keep AdWords running fast and stay within “manager account limits” — defined by Google as the maximum number of active, non-manager accounts the manager account can link to at once,
according to a blog post.

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CBS Will ‘Double Down’ On Original OTT Content To Take On Netflix

At a conference hosted by Deutsche Bank Tuesday, CBS COO Joe Ianniello said CBS had “quadrupled the number of originals” on its All Access subscription streaming service — and will keep adding them,
with several new shows to launch in the next year.

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