The Facebook lead architect of the ad-based business model announced it would leave company. We try to foresee how her move could affect company’s advertising strategy. Sheryl Sandberg said in a blog post that it was time to write “the next chapter of my life.”…
Fake ads trigger one more trial for Meta, in Australia
March 18, 2022
Fake ads allegations might bring Meta in front of the judge, in Australia. The competition watchdog in the country filed a lawsuit against the company. Thus, they say that the company did not prevent scammers from promoting fake ads featuring celebrities.
Fake ads for…
Cookie tracking: France will fine Google and Facebook
January 6, 2022
Cookie tracking brings important fines for Google and Facebook. They made it too difficult for French users to reject the tracking technology, according to the French regulator.
The cookie tracking violates data privacy rules
The Commission Nationale…
CMA: Facebook has too much control on display advertising
November 30, 2021
Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy would reduce competition in the display advertising market space. Also, Giphy is no longer a potential challenger. This is what the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decided.
Display advertising suffers because of…
The Facebook outage shows us how much their ads value
October 5, 2021
The Facebook outage made every user get nervous. Still, it also brought a good thing for conscious users. Thus, we know now how much the ads that they push in front of us worth.
A Facebook outage estimation
Both Fortune and Snopes came with an estimation about…
Facebook's job advertising system might break the law
September 10, 2021
Campaign group Global Witness said it failed to prevent discriminatory targeting of job advertising and its algorithm was biased in choosing who would see them. In an experiment, almost all Facebook users shown adverts for mechanics were men, while ads for nursery nurses…
Do you know what does privacy on Facebook mean? Most of us don’t. It’s common knowledge that anything we post on Facebook can be seen by friends, family members, and even our boss.
What
if we change the privacy settings on a post to “private”? Would
it be…
Signal tried to run a very honest ad campaign on Instagram, but Facebook decided to ban it, according to a blog post. The ads were showing users how much information they have been sharing with Facebook and Instagram through the platforms’ targeting tools.
The…
Scam ads on Facebook and Google, despite flagging
April 27, 2021
Scam
ads still appear on Google and Facebook,
although an important number of victims reported them. According to
Which?, the consumer watchdog in the United Kingdom, the platforms
failed to remove them.
A third of the scam ads are still online
Both giants said…
2020 Review: The clash of the advertising industry
January 4, 2021
Here we offer you a 2020 review of the advertising industry that is struggling to make more money and it wants to protect its trackers for this. There were many shy attempts to get rid of the third-party cookies – those pieces of code that advertisers use to follow us.