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WhatsApp clones and software tools that cost as little as $14 are helping Indian digital marketers and political activists bypass anti-spam restrictions set up by the world’s most popular messaging app, Reuters has found.
“The way Amazon presents reviews to you is a form of hypnosis,” says Saoud Khalifah, who runs the fake review detection site, Fakespot. “They put a glowing 5-star review right in your face. They...
Advertisers are starting to shift spending on search ads from Alphabet Inc.’s Google toward Amazon.com Inc., a sign of how the online retailer is capitalizing on becoming the top destination for consumers’ product searches.
Consumers are spending on average $440 a year on purchases made while intoxicated, and most of those sales are made on Amazon, according to a survey from The Hustle. E-commerce is encouraging the trend, with...
Advertising teaches its own lessons. For starters, everyone hates advertising. Advertising lies. Advertising misleads. It’s evil, phony, it’s trying to sell us crap we don’t need. I can’t argue with any of that, except to observe that for a...
A scheme to stealthily run video ads behind banner images drained users’ batteries and data while they used popular Android apps.
Amazon.com has hit on a new way to grab a chunk of the $129 billion digital advertising market now dominated by Google and Facebook Inc.: sell video spots on the e-commerce giant’s smartphone shopping...
S4 is comprised of Dutch advertising company MediaMonks bought last July, and California-based digital agency MightHive, which helps larger companies buy online advertising, added in December. In its first set of annual results, S4...
The public’s fickleness means Jenner’s star will fade eventually, but the social media phenomenon that she represents is surely here to stay – especially given that the big consumer brands are deeply unimpressed with the...
Through Project Zero, Amazon will allow brands to use its self-service counterfeit removal tool to delete knock-off products.
Who goes into a shop with their phone in-hand looking at a publisher site? That’s not how people behave when they’re shopping. And yet there are location data vendors who are selling data sets of people who are...
Also for the first time, the combined share of the duopoly (Google and Facebook) will drop, even as their revenues grow.
Because SaaS products are so easy to build and deploy today, if a market has serious demand, it will quickly become flooded with products touting similar features. So to win, you need to win...
Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone Group agree to pay €46 per share for Scout24, valuing the Germany-based online classifieds company at €4.9B
We shop online for almost everything. Why not food? Twenty-two percent of apparel sales and 30 percent of computer and electronics sales happen online today, but the same can be said for only 3...
Mirabaud analyst Neil Campling said consumer goods companies can have as many as 25 ad agencies working for them and that looks inefficient.
Facebook will start to show when your contact info was uploaded, if it was by the brand or one of their agency/developer partners and when access was shared between partners.
The company hopes to emerge from bankruptcy with a new owner and a lighter balance sheet. It secured $50 million from lenders to continue running about 400 Charlotte Russe and Peek Children’s stores, as...
YouTube saw a 51 percent ad renewal rate among brands in 2018, with an 11 percent increase in revenue year over year, an study by MediaRadar found. Three brands — Geico, Samsung and Disney...
The 29 apps concealed their malice and were hard for many infected users to uninstall.
