Companies Are Stealing Influencers’ Faces
Fast fashion sellers are using social media stars’ images without permission—and there’s not much they can do about it.
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Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads
A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google’s AdSense program.
Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online
One firm promised to “use every tool and take every advantage available in order to change reality according to our client’s wishes.”
Fraudsters milk ‘tens of billions’ from companies via fake clicks to online ads
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 —...
Agency execs see the in-house marketing trend fading
‘Let them try it’: Agency execs see the in-house marketing trend fading
E-scooter company Unicorn goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads
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 AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location targeting the U.S.
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...
Sunsetting Sip: A Post Mortem
The most successful consumer products often have distribution built into the product itself… Distribution should be considered on day one and built into the product.”
Google Ads is mysteriously disapproving ads and sites for “malicious or unwanted software”
From a thread in Reddit today: Google Ads – anyone noticing sites getting disapproved for "malware" recently? from PPC
