Indochino And Daiya Foods Take A Hyperlocal Approach To Targeting

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Can hyper-localized marketing really drive interaction and sales? For made-to-measure men’s suit brand Indochino and healthy foods manufacturer Daiya Foods, the answer seems to be yes. Indochino gained fame as an online suit service, wherein consumers would send their measurements to Indochino via a web portal and have a custom suit made. But in recentContinue reading »

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Forget Facebook? Why Marketers Are Embracing Pinterest and Instagram

Facebook’s News Feed is a lot of things, but these days, it’s rarely inspirational. With 2.13 billion monthly users, Facebook has more reach than any other social network, but it’s not the best option for consumers to get ideas and enjoy visually pleasing experiences. In recent years, Pinterest and Instagram have filled that void. The…

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Taboola Projects $1 Bil In 2018: Cites Expanded Reach, Self-Serve Platform

Taboola on Wednesday released comScore data indicating impressive growth and is using it as an opportunity to project an even more impressive one: $1 billion in revenue. As part of a release of
comScore data indicating a 17% expansion in its worldwide desktop reach — ranking it third behind Google and Microsoft — Taboola said it is projecting “over $1 billion in revenue in 2018.”

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Grassroots Political Activism Looks Sustainable, Likely Factor For Midterms

A year after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States, there’s a new spirit of political activism among Americans nationwide. It manifested first in the Women’s March on
Washington, D.C. and other major cities in January 2017, and it grew even bigger January 2018. On March 24, an anti-gun violence youth movement sparked by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
shooting in Parkland, FL, is expected to draw similar crowds — and importantly — media coverage.

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TV Nets Cut Ad Time, And Time-Shifting May Be To Blame

As offline media consumption has risen — and advertising dollars shift to Google and Facebook — traditional TV has felt the pain. Rising yearly ad revenue volumes are harder to come by.

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Russian Influence Campaign Extracted Americans’ Personal Data

Russian operators, using social media including Facebook, asked for and got personal information from ordinary Americans as part of their political influence campaign.

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Axios: If People Have No Time To Read News, Why Would They Engage With Ads?

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Brevity is the soul of content – and advertising – at Axios. The tech, news and politics site, founded by former Politico execs a little over a year ago, was built on the premise that people are bombarded by info and find it nearly impossible to keep up. “Less than 5% of people who click on aContinue reading »

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Adobe Rebuilds Advertising Cloud Search

Pete Kluge, group manager, product marketing of Adobe Advertising Cloud, called this release “the most significant revamp” of Adobe Advertising Cloud Search since the acquisition of Efficient Frontier
in 2011.

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OpenAI – Teaching AI Through Self-Play – Ilya Sutskever

OpenAI - Teaching AI Through Self-Play - Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever, Research Director at OpenAI, NIPS2017

“We’ve found that self-play allows simulated AIs to discover physical skills like tackling, ducking, faking, kicking, catching, and diving for the ball, without explicitly designing an environment with these skills in mind. Self-play ensures that the environment is always the right difficulty for an AI to improve. Taken alongside our Dota 2 self-play results, we have increasing confidence that self-play will be a core part of powerful AI systems in the future.” – OpenAI

The founders of OpenAI (notably Elon Musk and Sam Altman) are motivated in part by concerns about existential risk from artificial general intelligence.

Recorded: December 7th, 2017
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