ad tech
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The ACCC Would Like To Go Full Hulk On Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
The ACCC has declared Google is way too dominant in the ad tech space and isn’t letting the search giant off easy, vowing to tear down the secret sauce to its success: data. The competition watchdog has had tech giants in its crosshairs for years. It ramped up action in July 2019 when it published…
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Tapjoy Settles With U.S. Federal Trade Commission After Years of Cheating Mobile Gamers
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it has finally reached a settlement with Tapjoy, a California-based adtech company that’s alleged to have defrauded consumers consumers out of the in-app rewards that they were promised. Per the FTC, Tapjoy’s scam had allegedly gone on for “several years,” resulting in “hundreds of thousands” of…
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The Butt Pajamas Will Follow You Forever
If you’re reading this, you might have read the juicy piece that Elle dropped this weekend chronicling how a former Bloomberg reporter torched her entire career after falling for the longtime subject of her reporting — professional-tool-turned-convicted-securities-fraudster Martin Shkreli. And if you know about that article, you probably know about The Ad.
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Google to Journalists: Shut Up and Take the Money
After spending the better part of the last decade choking every possible cent from the digital media industry, Google’s finally getting the heat that it deserves. More and more people are realising the company’s monopoly over digital advertising is one of the culprits behind a staggering number of newsroom layoffs. Regulators are realising this digital…