After spending more than a year convincing brands it was addressing its brand safety problems, YouTube is under fire again for showing ads alongside extremist content. An investigation by CNN discovered ads from multiple brands and government agencies showing up on YouTube channels dedicated to white nationalist, pro-Nazi and North Korean propaganda content. A number […]
Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spent nearly five hours yesterday answering questions from over 40 members of the US Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees. This appearance, and another one today with the US House Energy and Commerce Committee comes five months after Congress first grilled the lawyers of Facebook, Google and Twitter on the
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Google has launched Reach Planner, a new planning tool for video campaigns. Currently in beta, Reach Planner in AdWords is designed to help media planners and advertisers forecast the reach and frequency of video campaigns on YouTube and the video partners on the Google Display Network. Reach Planner provides unique reach data for all devices,
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BrandMuscle recently released a “State of Local Marketing” report for 2018. The sprawling document captures marketing and ad-spending trends among US small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that participate in co-op or MDF funding programs where brands help subsidize local marketing by their dealers, retailers and affiliates. The report offers a snapshot of tactics and attitudes
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On Monday, Google’s YouTube introduced a new skippable format for short-form branding ads called TrueView for reach. The format is sold on a CPM basis, and just as with TrueView in-stream ads, users can skip them after five seconds. In-stream ads must be a minimum of 30 seconds long, but the new TrueView for reach
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Cory Henke, Variable Media, presents on video advertising at SMX West 2018. Video advertising budgets have been growing as ad formats and inventory have evolved. In a session called Unleashing the Power of Online Video Ads at SMX West in San Jose, CA, three speakers shared their expertise in creating messaging that connects with audiences
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Google announced on today that it is expanding its Google Surveys product and Surveys 360, its survey solution for enterprises, to more than 50 countries. Originally launched in 2012 as Google Consumer Surveys, the offering is designed to “… put quality market research in the hands of businesses of all sizes,” says Google. The Surveys
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Google News Initiative event held in New York City, March 20, 2018 Google’s plans to help support publishers’ subscription businesses came into clearer focus on Tuesday at an event in New York City. The company is launching a wider framework for working with publishers, called the Google News Initiative. It builds on several of the
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Quora is out with some updates to its ads platform this week. On Wednesday, the question-and-answer social platform announced the release of multi-event conversion tracking, view-through attribution and an update to its reporting interface. Here’s a look at the new features. Multi-event conversion tracking Using Quora’s tracking pixel, advertisers can now track and optimize against
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Individuals on internal teams at agencies and consultancies often have various levels of access to a Google Analytics account. Overseeing all those individual permissions — particularly as people come and go — is getting easier with the introduction of user groups in Google Analytics. Announced last week, user groups can be used to organize access
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