(TrendHunter.com) Founded by a former Google software engineer, the Iron Ox Farm is staffed almost exclusively by robots and aims to produced leafy greens at a rate of 26,000 heads per year. Occupying an 8,000-square-…
What’s on the minds of professionals in the programmatic space? If the conversations at Tuesday’s Programmatic I/O conference in New York are any indication: in-housing, AI applications and the future of acquisitions in ad tech. There was some hand-wringing about the continued challenges that the so-called walled gardens of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple pose…
Visible, Verizon’s more economically priced offshoot service, is about to live up to its name after months of flying under the radar. The company, a Verizon-owned no-contract provider that offers cheaper unlimited data plans with capped speeds, is making its marketing debut with a new major ad campaign following a quiet rollout in May. The…
Twitter has released examples in the past of accounts and content used by the Internet Research Agency, the Russian government-linked organization that used social media posts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. On Wednesday, Twitter released everything. The social network made two sizable datasets available Wednesday–one regarding the IRA, and the other related to…
Chief executives from some of the television industry’s top broadcast TV station groups participated in an NAB Show New York panel today about the state of the local broadcast industry. The conversation dipped into the future of subscription, advertising and revenue streams on the local level, the impact of live sports as well as how…
Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday.
A few highlights: Chris Paul, James Harden and Oscar Nuez (Oscar Martinez from “The Office”) star in a State Farm spot that also features a creepy robot that looks a lot like Oscar Nuez. Fujifilm puts the spotlight on its 3D-imaging and cancer-fighting drug-delivery technologies. And Fresh Empire, a “public education campaign designed to prevent and reduce tobacco use among at-risk multicultural youth ages 12-17” (as the FDA describes it), says that “Next is staying on your hustle” and “living tobacco-free.”
Twitter has published data sets comprising millions of tweets, images and videos and thousands of accounts linked to operatives based in Russia and Iran, shedding light on how bad actors outside the U.S. sought to manipulate social-media discourse in their home countries and abroad.
The social-media company has previously disclosed the activities, going back to 2016, but said in a blog post Wednesday that it was opening up the data to the public to encourage independent analysis by researchers, academics and journalists.
The data sets just released are made up of 3,841 accounts affiliated with the Russia-based Internet Research Agency, 770 other accounts potentially based in Iran as well as 10 million tweets and more than 2 million images, videos and other media.
The Big Lebowski is a cult film from the Coen brothers that’s arguably more popular today than ever. Pendleton Wollen Mills, one of the Pacific Northwest’s original outdoor brands, is the lucky beneficiary of the film’s evergreen nature. Why? The Westerly, dude, that’s why! Jeff Bridges wore his own clothes for this role, and though […]
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The streaming service surprised Wall Street with huge gains in subscribers in the third quarter. The results showed why AT&T and Disney spent big on their latest acquisitions.
Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday.
A few highlights: Chris Paul, James Harden and Oscar Nuez (Oscar Martinez from “The Office”) star in a State Farm spot that also features a creepy robot that looks a lot like Oscar Nuez. Fujifilm puts the spotlight on its 3D-imaging and cancer-fighting drug-delivery technologies. And Fresh Empire, a “public education campaign designed to prevent and reduce tobacco use among at-risk multicultural youth ages 12-17” (as the FDA describes it), says that “Next is staying on your hustle” and “living tobacco-free.”
Martin Sorrell whose S4 Capital recently began listing on the London Stock Exchange asserted Tuesday his new venture isn’t snubbing creativity even though its stated focus is in other areas.
The former leader of WPP, who left in April following an internal investigation into misconduct, explained his thinking during a discussion with AdExchanger executive editor Zach Rodgers at Programmatic I/O Tuesday afternoon in New York.
Sorrell said S4 Capital’s focus is in the areas of content, first-party data and digital media buying and planning. When Rodgers asked, then, if creative was not a focus, Sorrell said that was an “easy shot.”
(TrendHunter.com) The shrinking amount of space that is available for living in urban areas has consumers adapting to small homes, which is seeing designers come up with solutions like the conceptual ‘Art Fresh…
Facebook revealed Wednesday that it is expanding its efforts to reduce the visibility of low-quality ads on its platform. The social network said it is going after ads that violate its restrictions on low-quality or disruptive content, which typically include: Engagement bait, defined as ads with spammy content that seek to entice people to engage…
Facebook is bringing its Instant Games platform to groups and its Facebook Lite slimmed-down Android application for older devices and areas with poor connectivity, and the social network also detailed some new discovery efforts for Instant Games. Facebook said in a blog post that there has been a 25 percent jump in daily Instant Games…
Segundo recentes entrevistas do presidente executivo da Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, a empresa deve abrir o seu capital no ano que vem. Alguns bancos americanos têm especulado propostas para tomar conta da oferta pública inicial de ações da empresa e, segundo os especialistas, a Uber pode chegar ao valor de US$ 120 bilhões quando abrir seu capital. Hoje, a …
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Facebook intentionally obfuscated the problem of overstated average watch times on paid video ads for more than a year, a group of digital marketers charged in court documents unsealed on Tuesday. In September 2016, The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook had been miscalculating the average time users spent viewing paid video ads by 60…
Last June, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lifted the prohibition against female drivers–which had been in place since the 1950s. While it’s not known how many Saudi women have received their driver’s licenses, brands like Audi, Shell, and even Burger King celebrated the (long overdue) change this summer. For the most part, each brand has…
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