Collaborate Disseminate
Roku is testing autoplaying video ads that play before users can access the home screen. While Roku claims this is just an experiment, users are threatening to abandon the platform if the change becomes permanent. Ars Technica reports: Reports of Roku … Continue reading Roku Tests Autoplaying Ads Loading Before the Home Screen
Google will soon make changes to mid-roll ads on YouTube to make them less interruptive for viewers, and that should also help content creators to make more money from their videos.
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post’s “Tech Brief”:
Last fall, reports that Kroger was considering bringing facial recognition technology into its stores sparked outcry from lawmakers and customers. They worried personaliz… Continue reading Will Consumer Data Collection Lead to Algorithm-Adjusted ‘Surveillance Pricing’?
Remember Jeep’s new in-dash pop-up ads which reportedly appeared every time you stopped?
“Since I’m a journalist, or at least close enough, I decided that I should at least get Stellantis/Jeep’s side of things,” writes car-culture site The Autopian:
“In-dash advertising is here and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram, beat everyone to further enshittification,” writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij. “Ads can be seen in this video.” From a report: In a move that has lef… Continue reading Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
“The Washington Post’s crossword puzzle was recently deemed too offensive for advertisers,” reports the Wall Street Journal. “So was an article about thunderstorms. And a ranking of boxed brownie mixes.
“Marketers have long been wary about running ad… Continue reading Advertisers Expand Their Avoidance to News Sites, Blacklisting Specific Words
The Association of Information Media, representing 90 Spanish media outlets, accuses Facebook’s parent company of violating E.U. data protection laws. Continue reading Meta to Face €550 Million Lawsuit in Spain Over Targeted Advertising
OpenAI is exploring how introduce ads into its products as it’s looking to diversify its revenue sources to support its explosive growth.
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[ClownVamp]’s art project The Junk Machine is an interactive and eye-catching machine that, on demand, prints out an equally eye-catching and unique yet completely meaningless (one may even say corrupted) …read more Continue reading The Junk Machine Prints Corrupted Advertising On Demand
The Trade Desk, one of the largest publicly traded advertising technology companies in the world, is building a connected television operating system. Axios reports: Existing OS providers, like Roku, Amazon’s Fire TV and Google’s Android TV, have a con… Continue reading The Trade Desk Is Building a CTV OS Called Ventura