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Don't forget Trump is rotting, rotten to the core and you can tell by the smell.
:mastodon:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/25/donald-trump-smells-bad-lincoln-project-ad-claims/

Lincoln Project ad focuses on Trump’s trending scent
The Lincoln Project released an ad over the weekend attacking former President Donald Trump, saying he “smells bad.”

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

TIM: Erster Messenger fürs Gesundheitswesen erhält Zulassung
Der TI-Messenger TIM soll die Ad-hoc-Kommunikation im Gesundheitswesen sicherer machen, zunächst für Ärzte. Patienten werden später angebunden.

Amateurtime. "Maak gewoon een kabinet. Dan ga je er zelf over.”
https://www.ad.nl/politiek/formatiekwartet-gebruikt-informateur-als-boodschappenjongen-zoiets-heb-ik-nog-nooit-meegemaakt~a12d0a0…

Formatiekwartet gebruikt informateur als boodschappenjongen: ‘Zoiets heb ik nog nooit meegemaakt’
Er is een harde strijd gaande tussen het huidige kabinet en de vier formerende partijen. In maar liefst drie gevallen probeerden de onderhandelende partijen deze week een stokje te steken voor beleid van het demissionaire kabinet. Dat leidt tot wrevel binnen de huidige coalitie: ,,Dit is achterkamertjespolitiek 2.0.”

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/不明白播客/id1625856906?i=1000654480656

‎不明白播客: Scott Kennedy：中国经济迷思背后习近平的“四个不” on Apple Podcasts
‎Show 不明白播客, Ep Scott Kennedy：中国经济迷思背后习近平的“四个不” - May 3, 2024

Here's the column Facebook /Meta doesn't want you to see
Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see
Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy

Don't just settle for some regular or merely LARGE vibrating eye

On the character tables of the finite reductive groups $E_6(q)_{\text{ad}}$ and ${^2\!E}_6(q)_{\text{ad}}$
Meinolf Geck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02434 ht…

On the character tables of the finite reductive groups $E_6(q)_{\text{ad}}$ and ${^2\!E}_6(q)_{\text{ad}}$
We show how the character tables of the groups $E_6(q)_{\text{ad}}$ and ${^2\!E}_6(q)_{\text{ad}}$ can be constructed, where $q$ is a power of~$2$. (Partial results are also obtained for the case where $q$ is a power of any prime $\neq 3$.) This is based on previous work by Hetz, Lusztig, Malle, Mizuno and Shoji, plus some computations using Michel's version of {\sf CHEVIE}. We also need some general results that are specific to groups where centralisers of semisimple elements are possibly not …

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Conservative Christians are outraged that this Zillow ad includes a sweet gay couple - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/conservative-christians-are-outraged-that-this-zillow-ad-includes-a-swe…

Conservative Christians are outraged that this Zillow ad includes a sweet gay couple - LGBTQ Nation
One organization accused the real estate company of trying to "push the gay lifestyle."

Just been blown away by how good Narrator and Live Captions are on Windows and it makes me even angrier that they aren’t just building an OS but an ad-and-AI infested surveillance nightmare. Mainly because it shows, yet again, what we could achieve in technology if everything wasn’t tied to a toxic business model and a suicidal system of perpetual growth with finite resources.
This should also shame the Linux folks (not volunteers, multi-billion/trillion-dollar corporations who profit …

If you want to know why local papers are failing, this is a sign of the times.
The LA Times this morning had no ads. The A section had literally not a single ad, and the B section had a few obituaries and classified ads, but not a single display ad. Not one.
https://jabberwocking.co…

The LA Times was an ad-free newspaper today - Kevin Drum
I can't say this has never happened before, but I noticed something while reading the LA Times at breakfast this morning: it had no ads. The A section had literally not a single ad, and the B section had a few obituaries and classified ads, but not a single display ad. Not one. This is not to say there was nothing

“The iPhone maker also has developed an advanced table-top home device that uses robotics to move a display around, they said.”
Source: “Apple Explores Home Robotics as Potential ‘Next Big Thing’ After Car Fizzles” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/article…

Apple (AAPL) Explores Home Robots After Abandoning Car Efforts
Apple Inc. has teams investigating a push into personal robotics, a field with the potential to become one of the company’s ever-shifting “next big things,” according to people familiar with the situation.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01038 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The split 5-Casimir operator and the structure of $\wedge \mathfrak{ad}^{\otimes 5}$
In the present paper, using the split Casimir operators we have found the decomposition of the antisymmetric part of $\mathfrak{ad}^{\otimes 5}$. This decomposition contains the representations that appeared in the decomposition of $\mathfrak{ad}^{\otimes 4}$ and only one new representation $X_5$. The dimension of this representation has been proposed in [A.J.Macfarlane, H.Pfeiffer, J.Phys.A: Math. Gen. 36 (2003) 2305]. Our decomposition is valid for all Lie algebras.

50 years ago tonight, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders & co. at the great american music hall in #SanFrancisco. an actual soundboard tape, as opposed to a mixed-live-to-2-track-by-betty-or-rex tape, so only containing the instruments that needed to be reinforced by the PA. not a lot of garcia…

A reductio ad absurdum of the suburban mentality in which the apartment-dweller is always low-class.
When this building was approved over the objections of the Town of Somerset in which it was located (county controls zoning), the town redrew its borders to keep the apartment out. WaPo now brings you a photo gallery of an apartment in said building on sale for $9,000,000.

Look inside 9,100-square-foot penthouse in Chevy Chase, Md.
The condo has 18-foot windows, a curved grand staircase and panoramic views.

Alzheimer's disease detection in PSG signals
Lorena Gallego-Vi\~nar\'as (Bioengineering Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Juan Miguel Mira-Tom\'as (Bioengineering Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Anna Michela-Gaeta (Department of Pulmunology, Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa), Gerard Pinol-Ripoll (Hospital Universitari Santa Maria Lleida), Ferr\'an Barb\'e (Hospital Universitari Santa Maria Lleida, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanov…

Alzheimer's disease detection in PSG signals
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and sleep disorders exhibit a close association, where disruptions in sleep patterns often precede the onset of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and early-stage AD. This study delves into the potential of utilizing sleep-related electroencephalography (EEG) signals acquired through polysomnography (PSG) for the early detection of AD. Our primary focus is on exploring semi-supervised Deep Learning techniques for the classification of EEG signals due to the clinical scenar…

Instagram served up an ad for me of a construction company in San Francisco advertising themself blocking the bike lane with their truck. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#BanCars

One of Ireland’s unsung heroes is whatever genius comes up with new game show formats.
The Lyrics board (hangman-style blanked out lines. When you get it everyone in the room has a singalong)
Talkabout:
Ten hidden words on a topic. And, in one minute, you have to hit them all during an ad-libbed speech on that topic.

Elon Musk's Tesla, which had been famous for shunning advertising, is now running ads on YouTube, TikTok, and Elon Musk's X; the ads started in early 2024 (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-

Elon Musk's solution to X's ad problems: Tesla?
Musk's Tesla is advertising on X, the company formerly known as Twitter. It's the circle of life.

A Methodology to Study the Impact of Spiking Neural Network Parameters considering Event-Based Automotive Data
Iqra Bano, Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03493

A Methodology to Study the Impact of Spiking Neural Network Parameters considering Event-Based Automotive Data
Autonomous Driving (AD) systems are considered as the future of human mobility and transportation. Solving computer vision tasks such as image classification and object detection/segmentation, with high accuracy and low power/energy consumption, is highly needed to realize AD systems in real life. These requirements can potentially be satisfied by Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). However, the state-of-the-art works in SNN-based AD systems still focus on proposing network models that can achieve …

Gestern ein ad hoc Abenteuer als One-Shot in der #Coriolis Kampagne eingebunden. Ist etwas eskaliert, ein Charakter ist mit einen Trefferpunkt knapp davon gekommen und ein Charakter hat den Tod gefunden bei einer kritischen Wunde (54) und Probe auf Medikurgie trotz Stossgebet ist gescheitert. Mal schauen wie das in Kampagne nachwirkt 😅

🕶️ Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
#advertising

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know

Honest Government Ad | How to rig our laws (EPBC Act) #juicemedia
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7FLqYpD6eYw&si=LHth--Y7eUl5GkvT

Damn those outside agitators! *shakes fist*
https://mastodonapp.uk/@leemeade/112389330622816362

Buitenlandse hulpverleners World Central Kitchen gedood bij Israëlische aanval op Gazastrook | #bndestem
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/…

Daily pic of Brisbane

With discord going ad supported, is this the beginning of the end for the platform?
I think it really comes down to how it's implemented and how intrusive it is.
More importantly though, what alternatives are out there?
#technolgy #technews

I find it hard to both be surprised and feel bad.
“Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/customers-say-metas-ad-buying-ai-blows…

Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours
Based on your point of view, the AI either doesn't work or works too well.

"Sadly, my birth also meant the end of my mother’s career at IBM. You see, to say that child-bearing IBMers were not appreciated by their male bosses is the understatement of the century. This was 1970s IBM Argentina, after all: computer hardware, suit and ties, and lots of cash. The testosterone could be smelled all the way from Diagonal Norte to the River Plate stadium."

今年CPI3%这个目标我是不理解到底是拍脑袋还是拍屁股想出来的。 #这就是中国 #中国 #稳中向好

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see
Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy

"Meat Industry Using ‘Misinformation’ to Block Dietary Change, Report Finds"
#Meat #Food #Misinformation

Meat Industry Using ‘Misinformation’ to Block Dietary Change, Report Finds
The agriculture sector has spent millions of dollars on discrediting plant-based diets, a new report has claimed.  The report, published by the consumer advocacy organisation Freedom Food Alliance on Thursday (29 February), found that multinational meat companies and lobby groups were using industry-funded research, public ad campaigns and educational materials to sway public opinion on […]

Il discone della sera

Sekundenjuwel: Ein nur kurz sichtbares Schild aus der gestern geschauten Folge »Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone« (»Fit für Mord«):
AD SNIFFUM AD SMELLUM PAR EXCELLUM

Free public transit would be amazing. And to the people who would say "iTs SoCiAlIsM": Sure, so what? Come up with *substantive* critiques, not ad-hominem BS.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/philbrick-its-time-to-think-differ…

Philbrick: It's time to think differently about public transit fares - San José Spotlight
Commuters hustling to get to work, students trekking across the city to get to school and visitors touring colleges all must fumble through their wallets and purses for exact change, multiple transit cards for different systems and paper tickets just to get to their destination. Multi-use transit cards like the Clipper card work well, but...

Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $11.8B, vs. $11.7B est., driven by the growth of its Stores and Prime Video businesses (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazon-q1-2024-earnings-ad-revenue-prime…

Amazon Q1 Ad Revenue Leaps 24% to $11.8 Billion, Lifted by Prime Video
Amazon raked in $11.82 billion in ad revenue for Q1 2024, up 24%, fueled by its launch of ads by default in Prime Video.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00185 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Energetic particle activity in AD Leo: Detection of a solar-like type-IV burst
AD Leo is a young and active M dwarf with high flaring rates across the X-ray to radio bands. Flares accelerate particles in the outer coronal layers and often impact exospace weather. Wide-band radio dynamic spectra let us explore the evolution of particle acceleration activity across the corona. Identifying the emission features and modelling the mechanisms can provide insights into the possible physical scenarios driving the particle acceleration processes. We performed an 8 h monitoring of …

Elon Musk's Tesla, which had been famous for shunning advertising, is now running ads on YouTube, TikTok, and Elon Musk's X; the ads started in early 2024 (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-

Elon Musk's solution to X's ad problems: Tesla?
Musk's Tesla is advertising on X, the company formerly known as Twitter. It's the circle of life.

MEBS: Multi-task End-to-end Bid Shading for Multi-slot Display Advertising
Zhen Gong, Lvyin Niu, Yang Zhao, Miao Xu, Zhenzhe Zheng, Haoqi Zhang, Zhilin Zhang, Fan Wu, Rongquan Bai, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02607

MEBS: Multi-task End-to-end Bid Shading for Multi-slot Display Advertising
Online bidding and auction are crucial aspects of the online advertising industry. Conventionally, there is only one slot for ad display and most current studies focus on it. Nowadays, multi-slot display advertising is gradually becoming popular where many ads could be displayed in a list and shown as a whole to users. However, multi-slot display advertising leads to different cost-effectiveness. Advertisers have the incentive to adjust bid prices so as to win the most economical ad positions. …

Google Updates Ad Policy to Ban All AI-Generated Porn https://www.404media.co/google-updates-ad-policy-to-ban-all-ai-generated-porn/

Google Updates Ad Policy to Ban All AI-Generated Porn
Google will now ban all ads for “synthetic sexually explicit content,” even if the ad itself is not explicit.

Social Media überholt Search als weltweit größte Werbegattung

Immer mehr Werbegelder fließen in Social Media. Laut dem neuen "Global Ad Spend Forecast" des britischen Marktforschers WARC erreicht die Gattung in diesem Jahr neue Spitzenwerte - und überholt Search als größten Werbekanal weltweit. - Horizont (€)
#SocialMedia

WARC-Prognose: Social Media überholt Search als weltweit größte Werbegattung
Immer mehr Werbegelder fließen in Social Media. Laut dem neuen "Global Ad Spend Forecast" des britischen Marktforschers WARC erreicht die Gattung in diesem Jahr neue Spitzenwerte - und überholt Search als größten Werbekanal weltweit.

'Remarkable' Study Tracks Timeline of Biomarker Changes 20 Years Before AD https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/remarkable-study-tracks-timeline-biomarker-changes-20-years-2024a100041w

'Remarkable' Study Tracks Timeline of Biomarker Changes 20 Years Before AD
New data on the timing of CSF biomarker changes leading to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease could provide useful starting points for prevention and therapeutic strategies.

エックス #フォロワーさんの推しが描きたい

Tjonge, ze hebben daar bij het AD niet alleen de allersmerigste kop bedacht voor het consistente standpunt van het CDA om niet een regering van/met fascisten mede mogelijk te willen maken, maar ook nog eens de allerlelijkste foto van Bontenbal er bij uitgekozen in een trieste poging om die leugenachtige kop enige geloofwaardigheid te geven.
Nou nou, trots op jezelf AD??

Instagram served up an ad for me of a construction company in San Francisco advertising themself blocking the bike lane with their truck. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#BanCars

The BBC (and other news orgs) claim they are respectable journalism organizations. Yet they put this crap on the top of their frontpages *above* the news.
Like... do they not go to their own webpage and wonder if this might reflect poorly or is the 0.02c/click worth it?
#Journalism #Web

🕶️ Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
#advertising

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know

Honest Government Ad | How to rig our laws (EPBC Act) #juicemedia
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7FLqYpD6eYw&si=LHth--Y7eUl5GkvT

Topsort, whose API allows small businesses to simplify their ad campaigns, raised a $20M Series A led by Upload Ventures, bringing its total raised to $28.6M (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/topsort-150m-e-commerce-ads/
<…

Topsort helps e-commerce create ads without being ‘creepy’ | TechCrunch
Topsort develops retail media technology for small businesses to use auctions as a way to create effective advertising.

I find it hard to both be surprised and feel bad.
“Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/customers-say-metas-ad-buying-ai-blows…

Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours
Based on your point of view, the AI either doesn't work or works too well.

I'm far from being a #Montblanc customer, but this delightful ad makes me wish that #WesAnderson acted in his own feature-length films.
https://

@… #よく使う絵文字 の件数を変更できるようになったので、少し増やすと出てくるかもしれませんね！（それで盛り上がった話題）

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see
Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy

Retailers are selling digital ads for third parties more than ever before. It's now a $50 billion industry.
"Amazon dominates #retail media, taking in about three-quarters of all ad dollars. 'Advertising has a [profit] margin of something like 30 to 40%, so at least 10 times as much as they earn on the products they sell'"
It's likely that

Retailers like Macy's want a bigger slice of e-commerce ad sales - Marketplace
Selling ads on e-commerce sites is a $50 billion industry. Amazon dominates retail media, taking in about 75% of ad dollars.

I really don’t understand why people use Chrome.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

The New York Times partners with ad metrics company Adelaide, which uses eye tracking and more to gauge attention to ads and is launching tools for publishers (Ryan Barwick/Marketing Brew)
https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2024/04/…

On Website Technicals (2020-11) - Tech updates: work storage, Let's Encrypt auto-renew, lazy wins, slow https switch, AMP https only, soft canonical, Apple touch, Apache stop, ad sub. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-42.html

On Website Technicals (2020-11)
Tech updates: work storage, Lets Encrypt auto-renew, lazy wins, slow https switch, AMP https only, soft canonical, Apple touch, Apache stop, ad sub.

"Join Us":
Biden campaign urges Haley supporters to turn against Trump
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign released an ad targeting Republicans who supported Nikki Haley in her losing primary against Donald Trump.
“If you voted for Nikki Haley, Donald Trump doesn’t want your vote,” the president’s campaign ad says. “Save America. Join us.”
The ad shows clips of Trump disparaging Haley, the former South Carolina governor who was ambassador to the United Nations…

Topsort, whose API allows small businesses to simplify their ad campaigns, raised a $20M Series A led by Upload Ventures, bringing its total raised to $28.6M (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/topsort-150m-e-commerce-ads/
<…

Topsort helps e-commerce create ads without being ‘creepy’ | TechCrunch
Topsort develops retail media technology for small businesses to use auctions as a way to create effective advertising.

The New York Times partners with ad metrics company Adelaide, which uses eye tracking and more to gauge attention to ads and is launching tools for publishers (Ryan Barwick/Marketing Brew)
https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2024/04/…

Blije varkens en vrolijke kippen: ideaalbeeld veehouderij en natuur maakt rijker, aldus studie | Economie | ed.nl
https://www.ad.nl/economie/blije-varkens-en-vrolijke-kippen-ideaalbeeld-veehouderij-en…

A US federal judge sets the trial for the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business to begin on September 9, 2024 (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-face-us-a…

Tsja , "Ajax bracht op 2 augustus vorig jaar naar buiten dat Kroes algemeen directeur zou worden als opvolger van Edwin van der Sar. Op 26 juli kocht hij nog 17.000 aandelen" , dit is wel een kristalhelder voorbeeld van handelen met voorkennis lijkt me? Oliedom en exit lijkt me.

‘Aandelen met voorkennis’ leverden geschorste Ajax-directeur Alex Kroes ook nog eens niks op
Ajax-directeur Alex Kroes is geschorst vanwege handel met voorkennis in aandelen Ajax. De directeur kocht 17.000 aandelen toen hij al wist dat hij directeur zou worden. Het lullige: het leverde hem tot nu toe ook nog eens niks op.

Tjonge, ze hebben daar bij het AD niet alleen de allersmerigste kop bedacht voor het consistente standpunt van het CDA om niet een regering van/met fascisten mede mogelijk te willen maken, maar ook nog eens de allerlelijkste foto van Bontenbal er bij uitgekozen in een trieste poging om die leugenachtige kop enige geloofwaardigheid te geven.
Nou nou, trots op jezelf AD??

"Join Us":
Biden campaign urges Haley supporters to turn against Trump
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign released an ad targeting Republicans who supported Nikki Haley in her losing primary against Donald Trump.
“If you voted for Nikki Haley, Donald Trump doesn’t want your vote,” the president’s campaign ad says. “Save America. Join us.”
The ad shows clips of Trump disparaging Haley, the former South Carolina governor who was ambassador to the United Nations…

#GiftLink🎁
**Nancy Mace demonstrates how easy it is to fear-monger on crime** - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/3IZBRW7

Analysis | Nancy Mace demonstrates how easy it is to fear-monger on crime
An ad posted to social media includes baseless and debunked claims.

YouTube says YouTube TV now has 8M subscribers, up from 5M in mid-2022, and that the YouTube Partner Program has 3M channels receiving ad revenue share (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-tv-number-subs…

How Many YouTube TV Subscribers? Service Tops 8 Million Subscribers
YouTube TV, Google's internet pay-TV service, now has more than 8 million subscribers, according to the video giant.

I really don’t understand why people use Chrome.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $11.8B, vs. $11.7B est., driven by the growth of its Stores and Prime Video businesses (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazon-q1-2024-earnings-ad-revenue-prime…

Amazon Q1 Ad Revenue Leaps 24% to $11.8 Billion, Lifted by Prime Video
Amazon raked in $11.82 billion in ad revenue for Q1 2024, up 24%, fueled by its launch of ads by default in Prime Video.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/端聞-端傳媒新聞播客/id1572879315?i=1000653678558

‎端聞 | 端傳媒新聞播客: 獨家｜中國「走線人」為何葬身墨西哥海岸？ on Apple Podcasts
‎Show 端聞 | 端傳媒新聞播客, Ep 獨家｜中國「走線人」為何葬身墨西哥海岸？ - Apr 26, 2024

Ad company Entravision says Meta plans to wind down its authorized sales partner program and end its relationships with all ASPs, including Entravision, by July (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

New #DarkMoney ad campaign lies to voters about Katie Porter
The first ad by dark money billionaire funded super PAC #Fairshake has already been debunked by independent fact checkers
Fairshake, a dark money group funded by a handful of the richest people in America, has released a false advertisement lyin…

NEW DARK MONEY AD AGAIN LIES TO VOTERS ABOUT KATIE PORTER | Katie Porter for Senate
First ad by dark money billionaire funded super PAC Fairshake was already debunked by independent fact checkers IRVINE—Fairshake, a dark money group funded by a handful of the richest people in America, has released another …

Spotify says Q4 ad-supported revenue grew 12% YoY to €501M, a quarterly high; CFO Paul Vogel expects the podcast segment to reach positive gross margin in 2024 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/spotify-q4-2023-earnings…

Spotify Q4 2023: Gains 10 Million Subscribers, Revenue Up 16%
Spotify pulled in more than new listeners than it expected for the fourth quarter of 2023, as the streamer narrowed its net loss.

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Google updates its ad policy to ban the promotion of services that generate, distribute, or store synthetic sexually explicit content, starting May 30, 2024 (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-disal…

Google Ads To Disallow Services For Deepfake Sexual Content
Google Ads, Shopping Ads, Admob, and other Google Ads products will soon disallow deepfake sexual content, synthetic sexually explicit content, or synthetic content containing nudity services. I mean

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

A US federal judge sets the trial for the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business to begin on September 9, 2024 (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-face-us-a…

In a letter, several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials ask Meta to repeal a policy allowing ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen (Christina A. Cassidy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/facebook-el…

Democratic officials criticize Meta ad policy, saying it amplifies lies about 2020 election
Several Democrats serving as their state’s top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen. In the letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the secretaries said allowing such ads will further erode trust in elections and fuel threats of political violence against election workers. On Friday, Meta defended its work around elections and said it would remove election-related cont…

Nexstar Q4: $1.3B net revenue, down from $1.5B YoY, core ad revenue down 5.9% to $449M, with political ad sales down 88.7% to $30M, and a $52M loss for the CW (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/nexstar-cw-earnings-ad-sales-1235924635…

Nexstar Ad Sales Fall 36% in Q4 as CW Loss Narrows to $52 Million
Nexstar reported its fourth-quarter 2023 earnings Wednesday, revealing its TV ad sales were down 36% from Oct. 1- Dec. 31.

YouTube says YouTube TV now has 8M subscribers, up from 5M in mid-2022, and that the YouTube Partner Program has 3M channels receiving ad revenue share (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-tv-number-subs…

How Many YouTube TV Subscribers? Service Tops 8 Million Subscribers
YouTube TV, Google's internet pay-TV service, now has more than 8 million subscribers, according to the video giant.

Eight EU consumer rights groups lodge GDPR complaints with national data protection authorities, accusing Meta of coercing users with its "pay-or-consent" model (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/meta-consent-or-p…

Meta's 'consent or pay' data grab in EU faces fresh charges of privacy coercion | TechCrunch
A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the Europe Union for an ad-free subscription for access Facebook and/or Meta is facing a fresh set of complaints from consumer protection authorities in the EU over a controversial switch to charging users for an ad-free subscription unless they agree to being tracked and profiled for ad targeting.

Eight EU consumer rights groups lodge GDPR complaints with national data protection authorities, accusing Meta of coercing users with its "pay-or-consent" model (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/meta-consent-or-p…

Meta's 'consent or pay' data grab in EU faces fresh charges of privacy coercion | TechCrunch
A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the Europe Union for an ad-free subscription for access Facebook and/or Meta is facing a fresh set of complaints from consumer protection authorities in the EU over a controversial switch to charging users for an ad-free subscription unless they agree to being tracked and profiled for ad targeting.

The Athletic has ~2.95M newsletter subscribers, up nearly 20% YoY; Comscore: it had 17.6M unique visitors in the US in March 2024, up from 6.6M a year prior (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-athletic

The Athletic to raise ad prices as it paces to hit 3 million newsletter subscribers
The New York Times' sports site The Athletic is about to hit 3 million total newsletter subscribers. It plans to raise ad prices as as a result of this nearly 20% year over year increase.

IAB and PwC report on US digital ad sales in 2023: total revenue grew 7.3% YoY to $225B, digital video grew 10.6% to $52.1B, and digital audio grew 18.9% to $7B (Hana Yoo/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/online-adverti<…

Digital Ad Revenue Growth Decelerates Again in 2023, Per IAB Ad Revenue Report
US digital ad revenue grew at a slower rate in 2023 compared to 2022, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report.

A Chinese seller details how he ships civilian electronics, which could be repurposed for military uses, to Russia via distributors and Russian e-commerce sites (Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/KCp6bGmE6X

How China's ad-hoc tech pipeline fuels Russia's Ukraine war efforts
Civilian electronics, sourced from Chinese e-commerce sellers, find their way to the battlefield

AA/WARC report: UK ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to £36.6B in 2023, with search advertising up 11.9% to £14.7B and national newsbrands spending down 6.3% to £774M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/g

Google takes lion's share of growing UK ad market as publishers lose out
New data reveals the UK ad market had a bumper year in 2023, but news publishers had a poor one with declining ad spend.

AA/WARC report: UK ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to £36.6B in 2023, with search advertising up 11.9% to £14.7B and national newsbrands spending down 6.3% to £774M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/g

Google takes lion's share of growing UK ad market as publishers lose out
New data reveals the UK ad market had a bumper year in 2023, but news publishers had a poor one with declining ad spend.

YouTube Q1 ad revenue climbs 21% YoY to $8.1B, vs. $7.72B estimated, its highest Q1 total so far (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-q1-2024-revenue-alphabet-earnings-1235982528/

YouTube Q1 Ad Revenue Climbs 21% to $8 Billion
YouTube keeps eating up more share of the advertising pie: The video giant posted $8 billion in ad sales for the first quarter of 2024, up 21%.

YouTube Q1 ad revenue climbs 21% YoY to $8.1B, vs. $7.72B estimated, its highest Q1 total so far (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-q1-2024-revenue-alphabet-earnings-1235982528/

YouTube Q1 Ad Revenue Climbs 21% to $8 Billion
YouTube keeps eating up more share of the advertising pie: The video giant posted $8 billion in ad sales for the first quarter of 2024, up 21%.

In a letter, several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials ask Meta to repeal a policy allowing ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen (Christina A. Cassidy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/facebook-el…

Democratic officials criticize Meta ad policy, saying it amplifies lies about 2020 election
Several Democrats serving as their state’s top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen. In the letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the secretaries said allowing such ads will further erode trust in elections and fuel threats of political violence against election workers. On Friday, Meta defended its work around elections and said it would remove election-related cont…

IAB and PwC report on US digital ad sales in 2023: total revenue grew 7.3% YoY to $225B, digital video grew 10.6% to $52.1B, and digital audio grew 18.9% to $7B (Hana Yoo/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/online-adverti<…

Digital Ad Revenue Growth Decelerates Again in 2023, Per IAB Ad Revenue Report
US digital ad revenue grew at a slower rate in 2023 compared to 2022, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report.

US audiences gave 67% of their daily ad-supported audio time to over-the-air radio in Q1, 20% to podcasts, and the rest to streaming audio or satellite radio (Nielsen)
https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2024/nielsen-the-record-audio-listening-trends/…

The Record: U.S. audio listening trends powered by Nielsen and Edison Research
The Record from Nielsen delivers a quarterly look at how U.S. audiences spend their time with ad-supported audio media.

The New York Times is recruiting select advertising partners to test its new generative AI ad-targeting tool, which it plans to make widely available in H2 2024 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/20/new-york-times-ai-ad-tool

Exclusive: NYT plans to debut new generative AI ad tool later this year
The online news giant is recruiting ad partners to test an AI-driven targeting approach.