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Alphabet reports YouTube's Q3 ad revenue rose 15% YoY to $10.26B, vs. $10.01B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $74.18B, up from $65.85B a year ago (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-a…

YouTube Q3 Ad Sales Up 15% to $10.2B, Alphabet First Quarter Over $100B in Revenue
YouTube continues to flex its muscles as an advertising powerhouse, again delivering double-digit sales growth in Q3 2025, as parent Alphabet recorded its first quarter with more than $100 billion in revenue.

Protect yourself from online security and privacy threats with an ad-blocker.
"In this deep-dive, I explain how ad blockers defend against surveillance and malware. I also have plenty of ad blocker suggestions for you to consider!"
From: @…

Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-advertisers-ai-search-visibility-deck/

Brands Rush to Reddit, Boosting Ad Spend and Gaming AI Search
A leaked deck shows paid ads on Reddit can boost AI search visibility as the platform becomes more relevant than ever.

Wow, Snopes added an adblock detector which actually adwalls the content.
Sorry but web ads are far too intrusive/insecure and I don't think Snopes is worth the $3/month minimal subscription.
Guess I'll remove their RSS then

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Thai police blew up a Myanmar cyberscam compound,
--FCC blocks more Chinese-made devices,
--Hacking Team successor surfaces,
--Aisuru botnet overhauled to rent out IoT devices,
--Herodotus Android trojan mimics human behavior,
--Ad giant's subsidiary exposed data in cyber incident,
--CBP searches more devices than ever,
--ICE …

Thai police blew up a Myanmar cyberscam compound
FCC blocks more Chinese-made devices, Hacking Team successor surfaces, Aisuru botnet overhauled to rent out IoT devices, Herodotus Android trojan mimics human behavior, Ad giant's subsidiary exposed data in cyber incident, CBP searches more devices than ever, ICE is becoming a spymaster, much more

Europese inlichtingendienst onthult wat er écht achter vredesplan van Trump voor Oekraïne zit | Buitenland | De Gelderlander.nl
#Oekraïne

🖨️ Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner
#computing

Fox reports Q1 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $3.74B and profit of $599M, down from $827M in Q1 2025; TV unit ad revenue rose 6% YoY to $1.07B, driven by Tubi (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/fox-revenue-rises-on-higher-ad-sa…

Just donated to VLC to stay cool and ad-free.
#vlc

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #nyc at the beacon theatre, early & late shows, with opening sets by both the rowan bros. & the good old boys (feat. david nelson). with a few originals & new covers, the band is feeling more complete, especially in the early show. fall ’75, show #7. audience tape:

Also, fuck this bullshit.
#OpenSCAD #noAI

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The 2025 state of the #climate report - a planet on the brink: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627 -> Earth’s vital signs worsen, science shows options for livable future: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/state-of-the-climate-2025-earths-vital-signs-worsen-science-shows-options-for-livable-future -> Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Crashing: https://eos.org/research-and-developments/2025-state-of-the-climate-report-our-planets-vital-signs-are-crashing

This violates the anti-commandeering doctrine of the Tenth Amendment; it's government overreach (Murphy v. NCAA)
Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/trump-administration-moves-to-overrule-state-laws-protecting-credit-reports-from-medical-debt

my sister just told me they had to change the ad for the iphone air where they hold the phone inbetween their fingers, because it was “offensive in Asia”, or so she heard
i was immediately suspicious and was like “where in asia”, she didn't know
i googled it. all my suspicions confirmed.

🚨Job alert! 🚨 Two Post-docs "bridging knowledge between Earth and Planetary sciences (the Solar System) and Exoplanet science (beyond the Solar System)" at the Munich Center for Geoastronomy #geology #planetary

Lege accu en geen startkabels? Met dit paardenmiddel krijg je je auto weer aan de gang | Auto | AD.nl
https://www.ad.nl/auto/lege-accu-en-geen-startkabels-met-dit-paardenmiddel-krijg-je-je-auto-weer-aan-de-gang~a2d3bf14/
Tip: koop 'eens in je leven'* goeie zware start kabels. Klaar.
* Note to self: vervang de kabels als de mantel scheuren vertoont na zoveel jaar.

I could use some help spreading the news in China...
The vOICe为Android: 用你的耳朵看 https://www.seeingwithsound.cn/The vOICe为Android.htm
学习从听去看 - The vOICe 培训手册

Capitalism is just one witty ad campaign after another until we suddenly find ourselves extinct due to self-inflicted habitat loss. https://mastodon.online/@pluszysta/115428982968522861

Ampere Analysis: UK streaming subscribers on ad-supported tiers will reach 26.5M by the end of 2025, surpassing the 23.1M ad-free subscribers for the first time (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/26/t…

AD Mitchell hopes to regain Colts' trust: 'I hope I haven't played my last offensive snap' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6745446/2025/10/24/ad-mitchell-colts-titans-fumble/

A new ad campaign is fighting ICE by trying to convince agents to quit their jobs.
In the minute-long spot, an ICE agent returns home to his young daughter after a long day that includes real footage of masked federal agents breaking car windows and terrorizing immigrants.
“Daddy, how was your day?” she asks.
As he hugs her, text appears on the screen:
“What will you say when she asks about your day?”
The evocative ads from
Women’s March Win
enco…

Women's March Win

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gruff Rhys:
🎵 Bad Friend
#NowPlaying #GruffRhys
https://gruffrhys.bandcamp.com/track/bad-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rYO8geLMcYDcQ7mZha9Ib

A survey of 16K creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (Adobe Newsroom)
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/10/adobe-max-2025-creators-survey

Inaugural Adobe Creators' Toolkit Report: 86 Percent of Global Creators Use Creative Generative AI, See it Boosting Creator Economy
Adobe’s Creators’ Toolkit Report reveals how 16,000 global creators are using generative and agentic AI to shape the future of creative work.

Reagan ad that infuriated Trump set to run during World Series (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5572251-ontario-ad-trump-tariffs-world-series/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p129#a251024p129

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Head coach Pete Carroll’s first Raiders season could also be his last https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/28/head-coach-pete-carrolls-first-raiders-season-could-also-be-his-last/

Addressing Methodological Uncertainty in MCDM with a Systematic Pipeline Approach to Data Transformation Sensitivity Analysis
Juan B. Cabral, Alvaro Roy Schachner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24996

Addressing Methodological Uncertainty in MCDM with a Systematic Pipeline Approach to Data Transformation Sensitivity Analysis
Multicriteria decision-making methods exhibit critical dependence on the choice of normalization techniques, where different selections can alter 20-40% of the final rankings. Current practice is characterized by the ad-hoc selection of methods without systematic robustness evaluation. We present a framework that addresses this methodological uncertainty through automated exploration of the scaling transformation space. The implementation leverages the existing Scikit-Criteria infrastructure to…

Hidden massive eclipsing binaries in red supergiant systems: The hierarchical triple system KQ Puppis and other candidates
D. Jadlovsk\'y, L. Moln\'ar, A. Ercolino, M. Bernini-Peron, A. M\'erand, J. Krti\v{c}ka, L. Wang, R. Z. \'Ad\'am, D. Baade, G. Gonz\'alez-Tor\`a, T. Granzer, J. Jan\'ik, J. Kol\'a\v{r}, K. Kravchenko, N. Langer, L. M. Oskinova, D. Pauli, V. Ramachandran, A. C. Rubio, A. A. C. Sander, K. G. Strassmeier, M. Weber, M. Wittkowski, R. Bra…

Hidden massive eclipsing binaries in red supergiant systems: The hierarchical triple system KQ Puppis and other candidates
The majority of massive stars are part of binary systems that may interact during their evolution. This has important consequences for systems in which one star develops into a Red supergiant (RSG); however, not many RSGs are known binaries. We aim to better constrain the properties of some of the known RSGs in binaries. We first focus on the VV Cephei type RSG KQ Pup (RSG+B-type companion, orbital period of 26 yr), where we have enough data to constrain the system's properties. We use archiv…

Dynamic energy prices at a public DC #EV charging station? Payable directly by card? And yes, this is in Germany.
Heise says it works well. I'm looking forward to better price dynamics (currently, it's capped at the low and high end, which keeps charging prices relatively high)

Dynamische Stromtarife für Elektroautos: Nachfrage zum Angebot locken
Dynamische Stromtarife für E-Autos an Ladesäulen verbinden Ad hoc-Zahlen ohne Vertrag mit schnellem Laden. Das funktioniert in der Praxis erstaunlich gut.

Il Farro, il più antico cereale della storia dell’uomo, è davvero un cereale straordinario: oltre ad essere ricco di fibre e micronutrienti, grazie al suo apporto proteico e alla peculiare fragilitŠ del suo glutine, rappresenta un alimento nutriente e altamente digeribile.
#POGGIODELFARRO

The yellowing ad
Left too long in the window
A future long past.
#dailyhaikuprompt - yellowing
#haiku
#poem

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
間宮貴子:
🎵 LOVE TRIP
#間宮貴子
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Jq89qHEa2S1bu9ah1wavm

Trump says a Canadian ad misstated Ronald Reagan's views on tariffs. Here are the facts and context | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-canada-ad-tariff-reagan-trade-talks-f711559b0084b377d82d964893c67c78

IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B, vastly outperforming ad spend in media overall, set to grow 5.7% YoY (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creator-economy-ad-spend-37-billion-for-2025/

Ad Spend in the Creator Economy Expected to Hit $37 Billion in 2025
Ad spend in the creator economy is expected to hit $37 billion by the end of the year, a new report from IAB found.

Photonics-Aware Planning-Guided Automated Electrical Routing for Large-Scale Active Photonic Integrated Circuits
Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Nicholas Gangi, Bowen Liu, Meng Zhang, Haoxing Ren, Xu Wang, Rena Huang, Jiaqi Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23764

Photonics-Aware Planning-Guided Automated Electrical Routing for Large-Scale Active Photonic Integrated Circuits
The rising demand for AI training and inference, as well as scientific computing, combined with stringent latency and energy budgets, is driving the adoption of integrated photonics for computing, sensing, and communications. As active photonic integrated circuits (PICs) scale in device count and functional heterogeneity, physical implementation by manual scripting and ad-hoc edits is no longer tenable. This creates an immediate need for an electronic-photonic design automation (EPDA) stack in …

It’s always a similar radicalization, it involves it being useful for them in some way and therefore (in their view) anyone who dares to mention any of the 700,000 serious problems with it is a “zealot”.
Followed by ad hominem attacks by doing things like questioning other people’s qualification and motivations; in pretty elaborate temper tantrums.
It does not occur to them they might be wrong, even when repeatedly shown proof that they are.
This is psychological projection, by the way—they attribute their heir own negative feelings to other people.

Tientallen journalisten in open brief aan politiek: begrens Wet open overheid niet | #Gelderlander
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/tientallen-journalisten-in-open-brief-aan-politiek-begrens-wet-open-overheid-niet~a8643d99/
„Het voelt wat ongemakkelijk u te schrijven. Vanuit onze journalistieke taakopvatting laten we open brieven en lobbyen graag aan anderen over”, beginnen de journalisten van onder meer het AD, Follow The Money, NRC, Nieuwsuur en RTL Nieuws de brief. De Woo is belangrijk, omdat het „het enige middel is waarmee wij met een beroep op de wet overheidsdocumenten kunnen opvragen”

When Doug Ford... DOUG FORD... comes across as the conciliatory, nice guy…?
"“What do they expect me to do? Sit back and roll over like every other person in the world?” he said, adding the video was “successful” with over 11.4 billion impressions.
“So why doesn't the president start being nice? Play nice in the sandbox to his biggest customer in the entire world and everything's hunky dory," Ford said.”
Let's face it Canadian friends, the USA is not a nice trading partner. This is a full on abusive relationship and the quicker we can extract ourselves from it, the better.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #Trade #TheAmericanFascist
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-us-ambassador-apology-ad-9.6958531

Yesterday I was surprised that my blog post about IP tracking vs "conspiracy" my-phone-is-spying gets low but constant visits. - I reviewed it, corrected a couple of spelling mistakes and added some details.
After all, I'm just happy that I wrote this blog post. I often simply use the blog to "offload" a thought process out of my brain. No matter if someone reads it.

Trump says a Canadian ad misstated Ronald Reagan's views on tariffs. Here are the facts and context (Paul Wiseman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-canada-ad-tariff-reagan-trade-talks-f711559b0084b377d82d964893c67c78
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p125#a251024p125

Donald Trump has announced trade talks with Canada will cease, claiming our northern neighbor “fraudulently” used an ad featuring the late Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
“The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs,” Trump wrote on Truth Social late Thursday night.
He continued: “TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND…

Trump terminates trade talks with Canada claiming it ‘fraudulently’ used ad featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs
Trump called Canada’s behavior ‘egregious’

I could not be trusted with this technology
https://says.com/my/tech/this-washroom-makes-you-watch-a-30-second-ad-before-giving-you-toilet-paper

This Washroom Makes You Watch A 30-Second Ad Before Giving You Toilet Paper

Let’s hope this doesn’t become a norm.

The role of viral dynamics and infectivity in models of oncolytic virotherapy for tumours with different motility
David Morselli, Federico Frascoli, Marcello Edoardo Delitala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24522

The role of viral dynamics and infectivity in models of oncolytic virotherapy for tumours with different motility
The use of ad-hoc engineered viruses in the fight against tumours is one of the greatest ideas in cancer therapeutics within the last three decades. Together with other strategies such as immunotherapies, nanoparticles and adjunct therapies, the use of viral vectors in clinical trials and in the clinics has been and is still widely studied and pursued. The ability of those vectors to infiltrate and infect tumours represents one of the key attributes that regulates the success of such a strategy…

La gouvernement fatigue
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/tout-s-effondre-quand-on-n-a-rien-d-autre-que-la-politique-ce-que-nous-apprend-un-regard-francais-sur-la-demission-de-rebecca-ruiz?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

A survey of 16K creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (Adobe Newsroom)
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/10/adobe-max-2025-creators-survey

Inaugural Adobe Creators' Toolkit Report: 86 Percent of Global Creators Use Creative Generative AI, See it Boosting Creator Economy
Adobe’s Creators’ Toolkit Report reveals how 16,000 global creators are using generative and agentic AI to shape the future of creative work.

Trying to read a post claiming GitHub’s decision to purge toasts is *bad* for accessibility, even though it's on perennially inaccessible Medium.
And it’s behind an authwall.
Fine, I’ll sign in.
Oh, it’s actually behind a paywall.
Oh well. It’s not meant for me. Or anyone.

Morgan Stanley: ad tiers account for 30% of Netflix subscribers and 50% of Disney subscribers; ad tiers accounted for all net subscriber additions in 2025 (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/business/netflix-and-disne…

Netflix and Disney+ probably only added ad-tier subscribers this year, says Morgan Stanley
As streaming prices climb, ad-free subscribers are becoming a rarity.

Grifts ‘R’ Us.
#MAGAcorruption #KristiNoem
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

“Maar als ook nieuwbouwwoningen in een wachtrij komen te staan, dan is dat natuurlijk heel vervelend.”
netbeheers voor “Nice place you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.”
https://www.ad.nl/ijsselstein/overvol-stro

Overvol stroomnet in provincie Utrecht: mogelijk geen aansluiting voor warmtepomp of laadpaal
Huishoudens in de provincie Utrecht moeten er rekening mee houden dat ze eind dit jaar mogelijk geen warmtepomp, laadpunt voor de stekkerauto of andere stroomvreter meer kunnen aansluiten op het stroomnet, waarschuwt netbeheerder Stedin. Wat krijgen we nou? Regiodirecteur Warmold ten Zijthoff legt uit.

Ford's anti-tariff ad to run during World Series games in Toronto
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5572251-ontario-ad-trump-tariffs-world-series/

Trump claims Canada 'CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT' with Ontario tariff ad, calls off trade talks with Ottawa (Mike Crawley/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-trade-negotiations-tariffs-ontario-ad-9.6951469
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p78#a251024p78

40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead at the sun dome in #tampa, less than half full by some reports. fall ’85, show #2.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1985-10-26.…

In a state where organized labor is not known to be a major political force,
supporters of teachers, police, firefighters and other public sector workers rallied to force the repeal of a particularly ill-advised, if not downright mean, act of the Utah Legislature.
An ad hoc alliance of labor unions
-- not just those representing public sector workers
-- arose under the title of
"Protect Utah Workers".
It included unions whose members primarily work…

Charlie (penguinz0) pulls back the veil on how much ad money he's made as a streamer & why he won't take donations from anyone any more.
(Spoiler: $40M in the last ~5yrs. Top streamers are filthy rich & he's not a top streamer)
▶️ I'm Not Turning It Back On - penguinz0
https://

A fascinating thing about so many ostensibly very intelligent "AI-curious" people is that they're—in public—attacking e.g. academics who wrote papers critical of claims of the tech industry, often with wild conspiracy-type theories and ad hominems.
Like hello, I (not a trained scientist) can drive trucks through the holes (logical fallacies) in some of these arguments and accusations.

Honest government ad: AI
#AI #HonestGovernmentAds

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/technology/google-ad-tech-closing.html<…

The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.

IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B, vastly outperforming ad spend in media overall, set to grow 5.7% YoY (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creator-economy-ad-spend-37-billion-for-2025/

Ad Spend in the Creator Economy Expected to Hit $37 Billion in 2025
Ad spend in the creator economy is expected to hit $37 billion by the end of the year, a new report from IAB found.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gruff Rhys:
🎵 Bad Friend
#NowPlaying #GruffRhys
https://gruffrhys.bandcamp.com/track/bad-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rYO8geLMcYDcQ7mZha9Ib

@Chevrolet was built for the fan, no matter how bad their team is 😂#ad grateful to partner with chevy after they saw me buy my truck, match made in heaven 🤝 https://www.tiktok.com/@annieagar5/video/7

TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-shops-new-…

TikTok Shop’s New Ad Policy Risks Alienating Merchants
As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in ...

Cuomo condemned over racist AI ad depicting 'criminals for Zohran Mamdani' (Jenna Amatulli/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/cuomo-zohran-mamdani-ai-ad
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p107#a251023p107

Morgan Stanley: ad tiers account for 30% of Netflix subscribers and 50% of Disney subscribers; ad tiers accounted for all net subscriber additions in 2025 (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/business/netflix-and-disne…

Netflix and Disney+ probably only added ad-tier subscribers this year, says Morgan Stanley
As streaming prices climb, ad-free subscribers are becoming a rarity.

“on a besoin d’un candidat qui dise au Conseil d’Etat qu’il fait fausse route. C’est un mensonge de répéter qu’on peut baisser les impôts tout en maintenant les prestations. Et Christelle Luisier se trompe en disant que le canton n’a pas de problème de recettes: on a besoin d’une réponse quant aux millions perdus du bouclier fiscal et on a besoin d’un système de solidarité financière”
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/vaud-canton-recherche-ministre-bonne-resistance-au-stress-pour-ramener-le-calme?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

i got a bit obsessed with the modern lovers this year & attempted to assemble a complete-as-possible 1970-1974 live chronology. it's far from complete, but found lots of fun stuff, including a setlist for what might be the 1st gig & ads for their shows in bermuda. https://jessejarnow.com/2025/12/the-mo<…

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/technology/google-ad-tech-closing.html<…

The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.

Ad of the German company who made the ladder lift used in the Louvre robbery. Yes, it’s real.

Meta earns $16B a year from targeted scam ads.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/bombshell-report-exposes-how-meta-relied-on-scam-ad-profits-to-fund-ai/
This is fine and normal.

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.

Kristi Noem has hailed a more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration.
Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign,
bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret,
records and interviews show:
a Republican c…

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead open their 20th anniversary fall tour, their 1st trip to #florida in 3 years & final visit to @thoughtsonGD@twitter.com’s beloved hollywood sportatorium.
soundboard:

/5
De naam Paul Tang zei mij wat, maar ik had even gemist dat het een en dezelfde was die zn sporen al eerder in de politiek verdiend had:
Europarlementariër Paul Tang benoemd tot wethouder in Almere | Almere | AD.nl
#almere #woningbouw

Over 20 ad tech companies including PubMatic, Optable, and Yahoo launch the Ad Context Protocol, a new open standard to support future agentic advertising (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/adcp-ad-context-protocol-agentic-advertising-sta…

Yahoo, PubMatic, and Others Launch New Standard for Agentic Advertising
Twenty ad tech firms launch the Ad Context Protocol to cut costs, boost transparency, and lay the groundwork for agentic advertising.

Amazon says ads on Prime Video reach 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/amazon-prime-video-ad-supported-reach-315-million-…

Amazon Prime Video Ad-Supported Reach Hits 315M Monthly Viewers
Amazon says advertising on Prime Video now reaches 315 monthly viewers, up from 200 million in April 2024.

Caroline van der Plas zegt lijsttrekkersinterview af, zal geen lezersvragen beantwoorden | Politiek | AD.nl
#TK2025 #vdPlas

Trump says he's increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario's Reagan ad (Auzinea Bacon/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/business/trump-tariffs-canada-reagan
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p50#a251025p50

Amazon Web Services announces AWS RTB Fabric, a real-time bidding service for ad buyers and sellers, aiming to cut integration hours between ad tech partners (Seb Joseph/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/amazons-next-frontier-in-ad…

Amazon’s next frontier in advertising: the cloud infrastructure it runs on
The ad dollars are nice but the real prize for Amazon is the infrastructure itself -- the rails on which the entire system runs.

Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/crunchyroll-is-shutting-down-its-free…

Crunchyroll is Shutting Down Its Free Ad-Supported Plan | Cord Cutters News
Crunchyroll will eliminate its ad-supported free tier on December 31, 2025, ending the last remaining way to legally watch anime on the platform without paying a subscription fee. The change, delivered unceremoniously through an in-player message that replaced a scheduled advertisement, marks the quiet conclusion of an option that had persisted, in increasingly limited form, […]

Crisisoverleg in top kabinet over BBB-mestplan: ‘Gevaarlijke patstelling’ | Politiek | AD.nl
#NLpol #BBB

Frustrated Arizonans have waited more than a month for their new congresswoman to be seated (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/politics/adelita-grijalva-arizona-mike-johnson-epstein
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p1#a251026p1

Meta's removal of all ads on "political, electoral, and social issues" in response to an EU law has swept up thousands of promotional posts from news outlets (Marine Doux/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/meta-facebook

Meta's ban on political ads in Europe unsettles newsrooms.
When outlets depend on a single platform, what works to reach readers today can vanish tomorrow.

Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about the €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account (Bjarke Smith-Meyer/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/x-axes-european-commiss…

X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”

Pinterest agrees to acquire tvScientific, a CTV ad platform that automates and optimizes ad buying; tvScientific was founded in 2020 and has raised ~$60M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/exclusive-pinterest-to-acquire-ctv-ad-co…

Exclusive: Pinterest to acquire CTV ad company tvScientific
It's Pinterest's first acquisition since 2022.

The DOJ and Google wrap up a two-week remedies hearing in the US v. Google ad tech trial; both sides will offer closing arguments in November (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/technology/google-ad-tech-arguments.html

U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.

DirecTV launches DirecTV Elect, an AI-driven political ad platform offering access to CTV ad inventory across DirecTV and US cable networks (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/directv-elect-political-ad-ctv-launch/

DIRECTV takes on local TV with political advertising product
November 11, 2025 - DIRECTV is launching a new product called DIRECTV Elect that gives political ad buyers greater reach through connected TV platforms.

Netflix rolls out a new ad metric called monthly active viewers, or MAV, and says it has 190M such viewers in the 12 countries where it offers an ad tier (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Netflix Claims 190 Million Ad-Tier Viewers Worldwide Under New Metric
The streamer is rolling out a stat it calls monthly active viewers.

Reddit launches Interactive Ads, letting brands create immersive, participatory experiences directly in the Reddit feed, now testing with select advertisers (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-interactive-ad-format-paramount-runni…

EXCLUSIVE: Reddit Unveils Interactive Ad Format, Piloted by Paramount
Reddit debuts a new interactive ad format that lets brands build custom, participatory experiences—as the platform, buoyed by surging ad spend, positions itself as a creative playground for advertisers seeking deeper engagement and broader reach.

After Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it is in talks with Big Tech (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft-big-tec…

Backlash as new EU political ad rules kick in
Politicians and campaigners fear that an advertising law designed to improve transparency could stifle it.

Google's Ad Transparency tool no longer shows any political ads, past or present, from any EU countries ahead of new EU ad transparency regulations (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/google-ad-transparency-european-union/

Google Just Removed Seven Years of Political Advertising History from 27 Countries
Ahead of the European Union's Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising, Google's Ad Transparency Center no longer shows political ads from any countries in the EU.

Amazon says advertising reaches 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels on Prime Video (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/amazon-prime-video-ad-supported-reach-31…

Amazon Prime Video Ad-Supported Reach Hits 315M Monthly Viewers
Amazon says advertising on Prime Video now reaches 315 monthly viewers, up from 200 million in April 2024.

Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without a Game Pass subscription (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/791213/xbox-cloud-gaming-free-ad-supported-versi…

Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads
Microsoft is getting ready to launch an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. The free streaming is being tested internally at Microsoft.

Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/crunchyroll-is-shutting-down-its-free…

Crunchyroll is Shutting Down Its Free Ad-Supported Plan | Cord Cutters News
Crunchyroll will eliminate its ad-supported free tier on December 31, 2025, ending the last remaining way to legally watch anime on the platform without paying a subscription fee. The change, delivered unceremoniously through an in-player message that replaced a scheduled advertisement, marks the quiet conclusion of an option that had persisted, in increasingly limited form, […]

Google proposes ad tech changes to address a €2.95B EU antitrust fine, including enhancing interoperability across its ad services, but still plans to appeal (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

A look at Search.com, which is building an AI chatbot to be integrated into publisher websites, giving 60% of ad revenue back to its publisher partners (Andrew Byrd/AdMonsters)
https://www.admonsters.com/search-com-has-a-novel-approac…

A Novel Approach To AI Search: Pay Publishers For Their Content
Search.com has introduced a publisher-first AI search and chat tool that promises to compensate publishers for their content.

Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-ads-push-starts-taking-shape<…

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

Spotify and Amazon Ads announce a global partnership to give advertisers using Amazon DSP programmatic access to Spotify's streaming audio and video inventory (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/spotify-amazon-dsp-ad-deal-i…

Spotify Opens Up Ad Inventory to Amazon DSP
Amazon Ads and Spotify announced a deal giving advertisers using Amazon DSP programmatic access to Spotify's streaming ad inventory.

Nexstar reports Q3 revenue down 12.3% YoY to $1.19B and net income down 64% to $65M as ad revenue fell 23.5% to $476M due to lower political ad revenue (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Nexstar Quarterly Revenue, Income Falls on Lower Political Ad Sales
The latest financial results follow Nexstar unveiling a deal with smaller rival Tegna to merge its local TV stations amid the continuing consolidation of the U.S. broadcast sector.

The EU unconditionally approves Omnicom's $13.25B all-stock deal to buy Interpublic, creating the world's largest ad agency to better compete with Big Tech (Bart Meijer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-approves-omnicoms…

The DOJ and Google wrap up a two-week remedies hearing in the US v. Google ad tech trial; both sides will offer closing arguments in November (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/technology/google-ad-tech-arguments.html

U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.