Pack away those tired cookie crumbling metaphors until 2025, as Google has once again delayed the death of the third-party tracking cookie in its Chrome browser. This is the third reprieve Google has given cookies since it first promised to phase them out in 2020. The next year, it pushed the date back to 2023,…
There’s no such thing as a free lunch. But there is such a thing as a free pizza when you order from Domino’s online. We don’t bestow trophies upon advertising makers (although I hear there’s a lot of money in it), but we do point out when they do something notable. An “Emergency Pizza” from […]
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It’s Customer Contact Week and hundreds of people who are responsible for delivering better customer experiences are gathered this morning at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin. Neil Hoyne, chief strategist at Google, Wharton fellow, and author of Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers’ Hearts is this morning’s keynote speaker. “I get people to click […]
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A bevy of alternative identifiers has flooded the market in recent years, promising to usher the advertising industry into a new paradigm once Google Chrome deprecates third-party cookies at the end of 2024. But the immediate favorite solution among marketers is a data signal that’s very old and decisively not symbolic of a new privacy-conscious…
Once upon an Internet moment, Twitter was a big deal. Then a braggadocious billionaire bought the company and within minutes the social media platform’s engine began to sputter and its wheels flatten. Flash forward to the present. An internal presentation obtained by The New York Times reveals that Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five […]
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Brainly, the world’s largest online learning platform and homework help community, is delivering predictions for the future of EdTech in the new year. AI-Enabled Adaptive Learning The growth of technological capabilities means that a variety of media and learning-support tools now exist to help students receive a high-quality education through the Internet. Teachers can appreciate […]
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I am a writer. I write ad copy, journalism, poetry, fiction, and essays—not necessarily in that order. Because I am a writer, I want to laugh at the idea that a machine can do what I, or what any writer does for a living. Sure, a machine can spit out words, I get that part. […]
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Think with Google is a new YouTube series that seeks to educate and inspire the next generation of marketers, advertisers, and creatives with tutorials from experts in privacy, digital transformation, and AI to name a few. In related news, the 2021 Forrester Digital Marketing Maturity survey, conducted on behalf of Google, found that nearly three-quarters […]
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General Mills-owned cereal brand Lucky Charms is in the entertainment business. I’m happy to see the packaged goods brand recognize it and act on it. According to The Drum, Lucky the Leprechaun has dropped his debut album, “Magically Delicious,” which is now available across all major streaming platforms but promoted exclusively on Spotify. The album […]
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Reading messages carefully is the new listening and writing clearly is the new empathy. Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized leading authority, author, and advisor on 21st-century teamwork, collaboration, and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers”, she is the author of two books Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional […]
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When you’re out and about, do you see people primping for the camera? You don’t have to look far. Selfie preparation is happening all around us, in idling cars, in living rooms, in restaurants and bars, and on the street. So many carefully curated images, so little room for reality. Because reality bites. Reality is […]
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Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind Firefox, was purpose-built to make the internet what it can be: an open tool for everyone — the powerful and the weak, the right and the left, everyone. Right now, Mozilla is on a mission to unfck the internet. “On an unfcked internet, platforms will create incentives to stop fomenting conflict […]
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Please support Adpulp.com — subscribe now via Patreon. For small businesses who need a website, there is a myriad of options, not all of them equal. Squarespace sells the dream in this new long-form commercial. The dream is that a website opens the door to commerce. Wake up, now! Thanks. Now, that you’re wide awake, […]
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What are you hungry for? Depending on where you live, a driver will bring it to you? In 2018, Frost and Sullivan estimated the food delivery service industry generated $82 billion in gross revenue and predicted that this number will more than double by 2025. So, $164 billion in four years. Several players are competing […]
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Someone moved the ad industry’s cheese. The various reactions from industry leaders have been slow and haphazard at best, but that’s starting to change. The World Federation of Advertisers has formed the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media. “In the ancient story of the Tower of Babel, the city collapsed because its inhabitants lost the ability […]
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Small business is the backbone of the economy. Small businesses are also a radiating pain point during this devastating economic downturn. According to WBUR in Boston, earlier this summer, MassINC Polling Group surveyed 1,868 small businesses (defined as having fewer than 500 employees). Their findings show that 44% of small businesses lost at least half […]
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Who do you want to program your screens? Who do you want to take you for a digital ride? It’s a fundamental question for consumers of information. When you choose the social media platforms as your answer, you become the product that they monetize via your daily obsessions and rapt attention, which is now the […]
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Amazon.com is positioned to win right now, but the Seattle-based behemoth isn’t the only winner. For people seeking to buy direct from the maker, Etsy.com is the way to go. Etsy reported first-quarter consolidated gross merchandise sales jumped 32% year-on-year to $1.4 billion. The Brooklyn, N.Y., company is also doing well on Wall Street. Shares […]
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There has never been a time when we’ve relied more on digital tools to enable communications between people and teams. All the hype about how “working from home” is a great new answer is annoying in its shortsightedness. But that’s not what concerns me. I am more concerned about who is left out of this […]
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Earlier this year, when the Oracle of Omaha said that newspapers are toast, he wasn’t kidding. “They’re going to disappear,” the Oracle said. He didn’t know that COVID-9 was about to make a bad situation much worse, but he did know that the industry was hanging by the thinnest of threads. In the United States, […]
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