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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.

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.

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.

oh wow Youtube zieht die Daumenschrauben an:
Ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service
It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled.
Ads allow YouTube to be used by billions worldwide.
You can go ad-free with YouTube Premium and creators can still get paid from your subscription.

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 ...

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.

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.

Mrs qurly says she just saw and ad on tv for Jim Beam Pineapple. Omg. As a recovering alcoholic, I weep for humanity. And I wonder how many flavors did they try before picking pineapple? I never drank whiskey, it made me sick.🤷🏽 So I don’t remember what it tasted like, and what about 🍍 makes it a good match? They must be losing a shit ton of money from the Canadian boycott. Go after the youngs, they’ll drink anything if we flavor it, said some booze exec somewhere.

Testing DAWN #きつねかわいい
https://fedibird.com/@noppe/115417355954696723

noppe :dawn: (@noppe@fedibird.com)
添付: 1 枚の画像 AppStoreでDAWN for Mastodonがフィーチャーされています！ これからMastodonを始める人も、直感的にSNSが楽しめるDAWNをぜひお使いください！！ https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/dawn-for-mastodon-by-nightfox/id1668645019 #きつねかわいい

Ad #Stadtbild in der https://taz.de/Soziologin-ueber-Merz-Stadtbild-Aeusserung/!6122946/ 👏
"Wenn wir uns städtische Probleme anschauen, dann geht es um gan…

the grand opening of oakshire place mobile home sales of union city, tennessee, may 1970, with free entertainment by... who?! (i don't think this was a previously known/rumored VU date?)

2025 and I can't pay a creator directly for an ad-free experience of their work... I have to give £12.99 to Google instead.
How screwed up is that?!
#Dammit #Google #TheWorstTimeline

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.

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.

A federal judge threw out a suit filed by a group of people who said photos of them protesting drag shows and holding signs saying things like, “Stop Grooming Children,” were manipulated by a NC restaurant to show them holding promotional messages for the restaurant, including in an ad for a “Drag Brunch.” The protesters did not suffer a commercial financial loss from the photos’ alterations, so trademark law is not applicable.
**No trademark claim in altered pics**
https://www.courthousenews.com/no-trademark-claim-in-altered-pics/

Arizona sues over Mike Johnson's refusal to swear in Democrats' newest congresswoman (Holmes Lybrand/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/adelita-grijalva-lawsuit-sworn-in-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p141#a251021p141

Fit2Lead
Through real stories and lessons, I share how to build confidence, connect with others, and step into your best self...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/fit2lead/

Jeg er fascineret af husfacaderne her i Prenzlauer Berg. Desværre ved jeg tæt på intet om de forskellige arkitektoniske perioder, så jeg kan ikke navngive dem på billederne. Men fine er de!

Fuck him. When I want his opinion I will tell him what it is.
https://flip.it/1q4xUC

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
嶺川貴子:
🎵 Fantastic Cat
#嶺川貴子

/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

#ad new is good. Try the NEW! Sweet Chili Sauced and Tossed Chicken Strip Basket flavor! Available for a Limited Time at participating U.S. locations. Download the DQ app and get FREE delivery with a purchase of $25 or more in the DQ app. Terms apply. #happytastesgood @Dairy Queen

Rejoice, the Facebook algorithm finally works: I just got an ad for SUNN O))).
(And yes, I'm still there too. Since all the loud people left it feels like living in a village on a sinking coastline, like 2053 Montauk in the cli-fi season of The Affair. Doomy but kind of cozy.)

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.

word_adjacency: Word Adjacency Networks
Directed Networks of word adjacency in texts of several languages including English, French, Spanish and Japanese.
This network has 7381 nodes and 46281 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/word_ad

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.

I'm sure some companies are deliberately inserting AI slop ads into their products to 'force' people to sub to an ad free version.
Is this a new tactic?

Adam Silver says he expects big raises for WNBA players in new CBA, and that they 'deserve it' https://www.foxsports.com/articles/wnba/adam-silver-says-he-expects-big-raises-for-wnba-players-in-new-cba-and-…

Meine Meinung: Eine Kaufprämie für Elektroautos ist aus vielen Gründen keine gute Idee. Die Kaufprämie verteuert zunächst die Neufahrzeuge und entwertet elektrische Gebrauchtautos, für die es bisher immer noch keinen funktionierenden Markt gibt.
Viel sinnvoller wäre es, die Ladeinfrastruktur zu verbessern oder ggfs. Subventionen für das Ad-Hoc-Laden zu geben.

Kaufprämie für Elektroautos kehrt zurück: Bundesregierung plant neue Förderung ab 2026
Die Kaufprämie für E-Autos wird reaktiviert. Nach monatelanger Diskussion hat sich Schwarz-Rot auf ein neues Fördermodell geeinigt. Starten soll das Ganze noch in diesem Jahr. An wen richtet sich die Förderprogramm - und mit welchem Ziel?

Green's functions for magnetic Dirac operators and bulk-edge correspondence
Jean-Marie Barbaroux, Horia D. Cornean, Lo\"ic Le Treust, Nicolas Raymond, Edgardo Stockmeyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17151

Green's functions for magnetic Dirac operators and bulk-edge correspondence
We study the resolvent kernel (Green's function) of magnetic Dirac operators on a half-plane with boundary conditions interpolating between infinite mass and zigzag cases, excluding the latter. We show that these kernels have all the required properties so that the proof of bulk-edge correspondence from the infinite mass case shown recently can be repeated ad litteram. The zigzag case exhibits qualitatively different behavior and will be addressed in future work.

The Trump Administration Protects U.S. National Security by Pausing Offshore Wind Leases (U.S. Department of the Interior)
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/trump-administration-protects-us-national-security-pausing-offshore-wind-leases
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p52#a251222p52

https://www.ad-magazin.de/artikel/villa-rezek-wien-restaurierung

Dieser Architekt rettete die Villa Rezek in Wien vor dem Abriss
Investoren hatten sie schon entkernt, doch dann kam die Restaurierung. Nun hat die Villa Rezek in Wien ihre Würde zurück – so gelang es den neuen Eigentümern

Reductive homogeneous spaces associated with real forms. A gauge-theoretical generalisation
Nicolas Al Choueiry, Andrei Teleman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17166 https://

Reductive homogeneous spaces associated with real forms. A gauge-theoretical generalisation
Let $G$ be a connected complex Lie group. A real form of $G$ is a closed subgroup $H\subset G$ whose Lie algebra $\mathfrak{h}$ is a real form of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ of $G$. A pair $(G,H)$ of this type is reductive, and the corresponding quotient $G/H$ is a reductive homogeneous space whose canonical connection is torsion free. Regarded as a principal $H$-bundle over $G/H$, $G$ comes with tensorial 1-form $α$ of type $\mathrm{Ad}$ and a natural left invariant connection $A$. This …

MTMD: A Multi-Task Multi-Domain Framework for Unified Ad Lightweight Ranking at Pinterest
Xiao Yang, Peifeng Yin, Abe Engle, Jinfeng Zhuang, Ling Leng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09857

MTMD: A Multi-Task Multi-Domain Framework for Unified Ad Lightweight Ranking at Pinterest
The lightweight ad ranking layer, living after the retrieval stage and before the fine ranker, plays a critical role in the success of a cascaded ad recommendation system. Due to the fact that there are multiple optimization tasks depending on the ad domain, e.g., Click Through Rate (CTR) for click ads and Conversion Rate (CVR) for conversion ads, as well as multiple surfaces where an ad is served (home feed, search, or related item recommendation) with diverse ad products (shopping or standard…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor & Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective:
🎵 Nonet, Op. 2 "Gradus ad Parnassum": I. Allegro moderato
#SamuelColeridgeTaylor
https://open.spotify.com/track/1CPln7dAV6U4pHppewfPBd

Privacy advocates see risk in new Meta policy that uses AI chats to serve targeted ads https://therecord.media/privacy-advocates-see-risks-meta-ai-ad-targeting

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Dead Kennedys:
🎵 Nazi Punks Fuck Off
#DeadKennedys
https://illgates.bandcamp.com/track/dead-kennedys-nazi-punks-fuck-off-ill-gates-x-rip-kenny-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/35iszqjgLhqZZ6Rk9TjIdf

LIVE Oorlog Oekraïne | Minister VS ontketent rel met stropdas in ‘Russische kleuren’ bij ontmoeting met Zelensky | Buitenland | De Gelderlander.nl
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/live-oorlog-oekraine-minister-vs-ontketent-rel-met-stropdas-in-russische-kleuren-bij-ontmoeting-met-zelensky~a8aa0555/
Bij zo'n ontmoeting wordt niets aan het toeval over gelaten, dus wat je ziet is de bedoeling wat je dat ziet <punt>.
Tijd dus om verder te werken aan minder afhankelijkheid van de VS op alle gebieden.
De VS heeft kennelijk geen bondgenoten, maar alleen 'opportunities' om onder druk 'zaken' te doen.

CoIRL-AD: Collaborative-Competitive Imitation-Reinforcement Learning in Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
Xiaoji Zheng, Ziyuan Yang, Yanhao Chen, Yuhang Peng, Yuanrong Tang, Gengyuan Liu, Bokui Chen, Jiangtao Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12560

CoIRL-AD: Collaborative-Competitive Imitation-Reinforcement Learning in Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
End-to-end autonomous driving models trained solely with imitation learning (IL) often suffer from poor generalization. In contrast, reinforcement learning (RL) promotes exploration through reward maximization but faces challenges such as sample inefficiency and unstable convergence. A natural solution is to combine IL and RL. Moving beyond the conventional two-stage paradigm (IL pretraining followed by RL fine-tuning), we propose CoIRL-AD, a competitive dual-policy framework that enables IL an…

From @…
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-11-18-im-not-bad-im-just-drawn-that-…

"la bicicletta ha un'anima, se riuscirai ad amarla come merita ti saprŠ dare emozioni che non dimenticherai mai"
––Mario Cipollini
#biking #cycling #bicicletta

Went on LinkedIn (was checking my profile to trim it down some more) and saw an ICE ad, so I did the only proper thing;
(I did check the comments real quick and they were 🔥 - huge ratio of anti-ICE comments. On. LinkedIn.)

50 years ago tonight at winterland in #SanFrancisco, #JerryGarcia plays with the keith & donna band (fun tape, their final show & pretty much the end of kreutzmann’s 1-drummer era, resuming in ’79 with healy-treece), followed by final tape of the original garcia band (ron tutt will miss t…

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'`,…

Netflix says it is on track to more than double its advertising revenue in 2025 and is currently using AI to test new ad formats (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflix-profits-grow-q3-w…

Netflix Revenues Continue to Surge in Q3 as Streaming Giant Keeps Rolling
The streaming giant reported its Q3 earnings Tuesday.

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.

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.

Netflix says it is on track to more than double its advertising revenue in 2025 and is currently using AI to test new ad formats (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflix-profits-grow-q3-w…

Netflix Revenues Continue to Surge in Q3 as Streaming Giant Keeps Rolling
The streaming giant reported its Q3 earnings Tuesday.

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'`,…

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, opening their 3rd series of the year at the reopened kaiser auditorium, 3 show thanksgiving run billed as “dancing under the harvest moon”. fall ’85, show #16, now on “enjoying the ride.”
soundboard:

Taboola and Paramount Skydance launch a CTV product called Performance Multiplier, aiming to extend the reach of Paramount's small and medium-sized ad partners (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/taboola-launches-ctv-product-with-paramount…

Taboola launches CTV product with Paramount
The tool leverages Taboola's Realize AI tech, which allows publishers to sell performance ads across the open web.

Undercover tussen de arbeidsmi­gran­ten leidt tot schrijnende ontdekkingen: ‘Ik wil geen dooien vandaag' | Binnenland | De Gelderlander.nl
#TK2025

A look at the economics of NBCU's NBA deal; sources say losses are projected at $500M to $1.4B per year at first and NBCU has averaged ~$130K per 30-second ad (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/nbcuniv

Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-tolerates-rampant-ad-fraud-china-safeguard-billions-revenue-2025-12-15/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p42#a251215p42

Villa Jan des Bouvrie blijft maar te koop staan: 'Serieus bod moet beginnen met een 6 en daarna geen nullen' | Binnenland | De Gelderlander.nl
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/villa-jan-des-bouvrie-blijft-maar-te-koop-staan-serieus-bod-moet-beginnen-met-een-6-en-daarna-geen-nullen~a90403ed/
Een museum er van maken voor de beroemde ontwerper? Als er een Nederlands icoon is op dit gebied is het wel Jan des Bouvrie.
Juist 'zijn villa' zou dat tot zn recht laten komen. (Maar goed ... Ik ben geen familie🤔)

OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical practitioners, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after raising $210M in July (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/business/…

OpenEvidence Raises $200 Million for a ChatGPT for Medicine
The three-year-old artificial intelligence start-up has drawn investor attention, and money, as its use among doctors, nurses and others skyrockets.

A look at the system for distribution of direct media subsidies developed for the government of Denmark, which spends ~0.2% of its GDP on direct media subsidies (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2…

As the U.S. starves its public media, Denmark wants to figure out a better way to subsidize private news publishers
"A foundation can pick winners on the basis of its own values and priorities and support them from private sources. But if the state does the same with public funds, we risk the appearance (or even worse, the reality) of politicians picking winners on the basis of their own ad hoc, pa…

70 euro voor een dag parkeren in hartje Utrecht, maar gebruikers hebben niets door: ‘Ik rij gewoon naar binnen’ | Utrecht | De Gelderlander.nl
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/70-euro-voor-een-dag-parkeren-in-hartje-utrecht-maar-gebruikers-hebben-niets-door-ik-rij-gewoon-naar-binnen~a0403575/
Even een reminder voor automobilisten dat parkeertarieven erg flexibel zijn en de meest favoriete plekken het duurst voor een langere tijd.

Daisy.

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band open a 2-night superbill at winterland, their only time playing there, along with the keith & donna band & weir’s kingfish. all dead members present minus lesh & hart, though the only sit-ins happen on the 20th.
soundboard: https://archive.org/de…

Nvidia and Google launch the GeForce Now Fast Pass to let Chromebook owners stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/824940/chromebooks-nvidia-geforce-now-fa…

New Chromebooks will come with a year of Nvidia’s cloud gaming ‘fast pass’
Nvidia GeForce Now Fast Pass is an ad-free queue-jump for GeForce Now’s free tier, and it’s exclusive to Chromebook owners.

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

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.

Congressional Black Caucus PAC uses Young Republicans' texting scandal to hit Lawler (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/16/congress/mike-lawler-young-republicans-ad-00611542
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p97#a251016p97

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

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.

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, […]

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.

Mobiel internet hapert bij klanten Odido door storing | Binnenland | De Gelderlander.nl
#odido

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…

Interview with WPP CEO Cindy Rose, who says AI puts pressure on the ad agency's pricing and WPP has 10K data scientists and software engineers and 12K creatives (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3eb36aed-8366-4db9-8ea0-e7484416dc43

Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown (Thomas Beaumont/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/schumer-art

GOP uses AI-generated video in anti-Schumer ad
Senate Republican campaign leaders are using artificial intelligence-generated video to falsely depict Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer appearing to say on camera comments he made in a print publication interview about the political impacts of the partial government shutdown. The 30-second digital ad from the National Republican Senate Committee features the Democratic New York senator appearing to say on camera about the shutdown, now in its 3rd week, “Every day gets better for us.” …

VS voorspelt ondergang van Europa, maar experts draaien het om: ‘Zij zijn afhankelijk van ons’ | Binnenland | AD.nl
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/vs-voorspelt-ondergang-van-europa-maar-experts-draaien-het-om-zij-zijn-afhankelijk-van-ons~ac2e08ec/
Het grote gelijk van Geert Mak....
Trump helpt ons een beetje: door een oud verdrag zijn wij razend populair bij Amerikanen met ondernemingszin. Met een investering vanaf €4500 kunnen ze in ons land terecht dankzij die deal uit 1956. Veel Amerikanen zien dat meer zitten dan in de VS blijven onder Trump.

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.

Kuaishou reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$5B and net profit up 37% YoY to ~$632M, above ~$588M est., driven by ad growth and its Kling AI video generator (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/ea…

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.

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.”

AdImpact: the US DHS has spent $51M in 2025 on ads thanking President Trump for securing the border, making it the most expensive political ad campaign in 2025 (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/15/trump-self-deportation-ads-noem

2025's big ad spender: The U.S. taxpayer
The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

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.

Brutale ‘glasvezelcowboy’ laat zich niet wegsturen en blijft op deur bonzen: ‘Stickers gelden niet voor mij’ | Binnenland | AD.nl
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/brutale-glasvezelcowboy-laat-zich-niet-wegsturen-en-blijft-op-deur-bonzen-stickers-gelden-niet-voor-mij~a618c976/
'Het aanbellen bij iemand met een sticker valt onder agressieve handelspraktijken en is verboden.'
Kijk ... Dus gewoon gelijk 0900-tuig bellen in dit soort gevallen.
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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.

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, […]

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.

Internal documents: Meta earned $18B in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10% of its global revenue, with $3B linked to fraudulent ads like scams (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-tolerates…

Politico ends its print edition after 19 years, as its early reliance on print ad revenue fades and its audience relies more on digital platforms (Ken Vogel/@kenvogel.bsky.social)
https://bsky.app/profile/kenvogel.bsky.social/post/3maej6u6jls22

Ken Vogel (@kenvogel.bsky.social)
Politico's print paper was always something of a contradiction for an outlet that set out to prove that political journalism could thrive in the digital world. As the digital reach grew, the paper became less important, leading to the decision to end the print edition. Still, I am sad to see it go

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.

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

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

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.

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.

McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company Sweetshop, after backlash that the ad is distasteful (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-comme…

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.

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.

CloudX, which uses Anthropic's Claude to automate mobile ad pricing and inventory optimization for publishers, raised a $30M Series A led by Addition (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/adtech-founders-raise-30-million…

Adtech Founders Raise $30 Million to Automate Mobile Ads for Publishers
CloudX enlists AI agents for ad pricing and optimizing inventory.

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.

Internal documents: Meta earned $18B in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10% of its global revenue, with $3B linked to fraudulent ads like scams (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-tolerates…

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.

Philo adds ad-supported tiers of HBO Max and Discovery to its Core package, raises the price from $28 to $33/month, and plans ad-free upgrades for early 2026 (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/philo-adds-ad-supported-hbo-max-discovery-plus/

Philo Expands Core Subscription Offering With Ad-Supported HBO Max, Discovery+
The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streaming services will be available in an enhanced package for $33 per month

The EU says it is gathering info and feedback from ~200 stakeholders on Google's offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/goog…

Google’s Proposals on Ad Tech Antitrust Compliance Tested by EU
The European Commission is seeking industry feedback on Google’s offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business that sparked a fine of nearly €3 billion ($3.5 billion).

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.

In an interview with Screen International, Eddy Cue says Apple currently has no plans for an ad tier on Apple TV and no plans for a bid for WBD, A24, or Disney (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/d…

An Ad Tier for Apple TV? The Tech Giant Buying Warner Bros.? Don’t Bet on It, Eddy Cue Says
The tech executive appeared to dismiss the long-rumored moves in an interview with Screen International.