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“Amazon’s dominance of online retail means that hundreds of thousands of small businesses must rely on its site to reach customers. In this report, we find that Amazon is exploiting its gatekeeper power to...

Almost a third of the world’s biggest brands will suspend spending on social media or are likely to do so, according to a survey of top advertisers that reveals the scale of the revolt...

Overall spending predicted to fall almost 12% but pain will be unevenly spread across industry.

A new study by ISBA has found that half the money advertisers invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers, with 15% of the money unattributable to any players in the supply chain.

Amazon rolled out steep rate cuts to its affiliate program that pays online publishers and social media influencers a cut of sales on products they recommend. The changes mean less income for those who...

How venture capital became the most dangerous thing to happen to now-troubled DTCs like Outdoor Voices, Harry’s, and Casper

Fast fashion sellers are using social media stars’ images without permission—and there’s not much they can do about it.

A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google’s AdSense program.

Some of the biggest companies in the world are funding climate misinformation by advertising on YouTube, according to a study from activist group Avaaz.

The affiliate industry has long been seen as a thing of the past, but its business model, where businesses are paid for driving transactions, is unequivocally the model of the future.

One firm promised to “use every tool and take every advantage available in order to change reality according to our client’s wishes.”

Online purchases in the US almost three times more likely to be sent back.Expenses associated with returns help explain why ecommerce typically carries lower profit margins than bricks and mortar retail despite the huge...

This is what happens when you pay for anything other than actual sales/conversions: Dina Srinivasan, a former agency executive turned digital ads adviser, said: “It’s very difficult to tie [ad] money to sales —...

‘Let them try it’: Agency execs see the in-house marketing trend fading

Electric scooter start-up Unicorn is shutting down after spending too much money on Facebook adverts. “Unfortunately the cost of the ads were just too expensive to build a sustainable business.”

Google bundles bad clicks like a pile of stinking, rotten subprime mortgages and then peppers them with some good clicks and sells them to you like JP Morgan in 2005. Did you read the...

Outcome streams pharmaceutical ads on televisions and computer tablets it installs in doctors’ offices. Prosecutors said the defendants maintained a facade of “extraordinary revenue growth” through a scheme from 2011 to 2017 in which...

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