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How Vice became ‘a fucking clown show’ – The Verge
Shane Smith built Vice into a cultural behemoth by bluffing his way into round after round of funding — until he reached a dizzying $5.7 billion valuation from which only a precipitous fall was...
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Inside The Secret Meetings To Define MFA | AdExchanger
Forget what you know about “made for advertising.” There’s a push now to redefine MFA as “made for arbitrage.” Despite the backlash against MFA websites, there is still no industry standard to define...
View ArticleG/O Media and Kotaku staff are locked in a battle for the gaming website’s...
Kotaku’s future is hanging in the balance. It hinges on whether the decades-popular online publication’s owner G/O Media succeeds in transforming it from a gaming news outlet to a hub for game guides...
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Brands Paid for Ads on Forbes.com. Some Ran on a Copycat Site Instead. – WSJ
Forbes for years ran an alternate version of its website where it packed ads that were intended to run on Forbes.com, another sign that brands don’t always get what they pay for in the opaque...
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Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites
Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites It honestly breaks my heart to write this article, but I want to be as transparent as possible with our readers because you are the ones that...
View ArticlePublishers turn to other platforms to address platform referral traffic...
Nine digital publishing execs that spoke with Digiday said they are investing in other social platforms like Instagram and TikTok to grow their reach. But the question remains if alternative platforms...
View ArticleMaria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She’s been one of its biggest obstacles....
When Maria Cantwell first ran for the U.S. Senate, she championed what was then an unconventional political cause: internet privacy. “What you do on your computer should be your business, and no one...
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Google’s New Privacy Plan Has Flaws, Regulator Says in Internal Documents – WSJ
Google’s yearslong effort to make online advertising less invasive has hit another snag. The U.K. privacy regulator says Google’s proposed replacements for cookies need to do more to protect consumer...
View ArticlePalantir is pitching ad agencies on its AI technology
Palantir, the controversial software company with ties to intelligence agencies, is turning to the agency world as part of its continued efforts to grow its commercial business. The company, which was...
View ArticleThe Life and Death of Hollywood
In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena Smith went West to Hollywood, like many before her. She arrived to a small apartment in Silver Lake, one block from the Vista Theatre—a...
View ArticleHealth Plans Must Cover Transgender Care, Fourth Cir. Says (2)
Two states’ health plans’ blanket coverage exclusions for gender-affirming care are unconstitutional, the full Fourth Circuit said Monday. A North Carolina state employee health plan violates the 14th...
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Google Is Backing A National Approach To US Privacy Compliance | AdExchanger
Compliance is not a choice. But companies have some choice in how they tackle it. There are two main approaches. Businesses can implement a compliance program on a state-by-state basis, essentially...
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Walled Garden Platforms Are Drowning Marketers In Self-Attributed Sales |...
Sales are way up and ROAS is through the roof across search, social and ecommerce. At least, that’s what the ad platforms claim. But dig into the CRM, a brand’s primary source of actual sales data,...
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Shadier Than Forbes? Premium Publishers Are Partnering With Content Farms To...
“Uncovering Earth’s Secrets: A Journey Into Its Deepest Hole” That’s the title of a made-for-arbitrage (MFA) article about a failed Soviet-era scientific expedition to drill a hole tens of thousands...
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How to Build a Small Solar Power System | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/12/how-to-build-a-small-solar-power-system/ Image: a solar panel with charge controller and lead-acid battery. Photo by Marie Verdeil. View original image View...
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Social-Media Influencers Aren’t Getting Rich—They’re Barely Getting By
Many people dream of becoming social-media stars like YouTube’s MrBeast or TikTok’s Charli D’Amelio. But for most who pursue careers as content creators, just making ends meet is a lofty goal. Clint...
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You Have Not Yet Read Your Favourite Book
It’s probably not the one I wrote. It would be weird if my book were your favorite book. It’s a geeky book about music-streaming and music and algorithms and technology and curiosity and morality and...
View ArticleEx-UM privacy chief lifts lid: Google has ‘captured’ trade associations and...
Former UM privacy chief Arielle Garcia knows the $700bn global digital ad industry is founded on trading “useless, garbage data” because a) she spent a decade in media ops and compliance and b) she’s...
View ArticleJeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future — TIME
Jeff Bezos loves being on the move. He sits in the back of a white van, beaming as usual, surrounded by an entourage of lanky young lieutenants from Amazon.com the Web’s biggest retail store and,...
View ArticleAmazon.com’s Jeff Bezos Is Bullish on Books | WIRED
Former hedge-fund manager Jeff Bezos bet on a hunch two years ago and ended up with online bookstore Amazon.com, the poster-child of savvy Net commerce, even though it hasn’t earned a cent of profit...
View ArticleThe Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled | WIRED
If you still hold any notion that Google Chrome’s “Incognito mode” is a good way to protect your privacy online, now’s a good time to stop. Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the...
View ArticleFBI Used New Cellebrite Software to Access Trump Shooter’s Phone – Bloomberg
The FBI was given access to unreleased technology to access the phone of the man identified as the shooter of former President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the investigation. As the...
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TikTok Collected U.S. Users’ Views on Gun Control, Abortion and Religion,...
TikTok collected data about its users’ views on sensitive topics and censored content at the direction of its China-based parent company, the Justice Department said Friday, making its most forceful...
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Google to kill cookies with consent | Mobile Dev Memo by Eric Seufert
Google to kill cookies with consent Google yesterday announced that it no longer intends to deprecate third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. From its blog post, A new path for Privacy Sandbox on...
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Sabrina Carpenter won Spotify
Here’s your monthly Garbage Intelligence. It arrives the first Friday of every month, instead of the usual Garbage Weekend issue. It’s a snapshot of everything that’s happening around the web. Before...
View ArticleFortune 500 brand ads seen next to porn & racial slurs, with IAS &...
A new study underscores the urgent need for more effective brand safety tools to ensure that brands can reliably prevent their ads from appearing alongside harmful content. A report published today...
View ArticleWhat we know about Google’s upcoming adtech antitrust trial – and how it...
Beginning next week, the search giant will face off against the US Justice Department over allegations that the company’s adtech practices are anti-competitive. In a historic trial set to begin on...
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Retailers Are Opening Themselves To Programmatic – But Will They Regret It? |...
Two years ago, retail media networks were at a crossroads. At the time they were weighing whether to become traditional walled gardens or allowing the programmatic ecosystem open access to data....
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Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck?
AI is becoming synonymous with things that are unbelievable, generic, or just a little bit off. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; MadMusclesPlans/X It’s an exciting time at the cutting edge of AI...
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Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Facebook Content Is Worthless, Glasses are the...
Last week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg did an interview with The Verge outlining the company’s plans for AI, augmented reality, and wearables. Unlike Meta’s previous metaverse pivot, it seems like the...
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