Google is experimenting with contextual ads at "much lower costs" when it comes to marketing its own products—even as it leads the way as one of the most vocal proponents of the power of personal data for targeting ads online. Marvin Chow, Google’s VP of marketing, peeled back the curtain on the company’s promotional strategy during a talk at Advertising Week on Tuesday. In one of the examples, Chow discussed how Google has run contextual ads on The Guardian website in the U.K. to promote Google Home Mini. Contextual ads analyze the articles, videos and images on a website to target the ad, instead of relying on data gathered from tracking the individual viewer’s past online behavior. The publishing industry has been looking towards contextual ads since privacy issues began tarnishing some of the data-collection methods that have supported personalized advertising for years. “As you know, contextual ads have been around for ages,” Chow said during his talk. “But you also know they’re typically limited to a pretty shallow understanding of actual context.” Chow said they used machine learning to overcome the shortcomings that have hindered “contextual” advertising in the past. The search giant worked with The Guardian’s creative development team to place ads in the recipes section of the publisher’s website. They had to teach machines to identify meals in the photos of recipes as either “sweet” or “savory.” Then the ads for Google Home Mini, the voice-activated speaker,... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-24 23:11:20 UTC ]
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Shoppers appear unfazed by a potential recession, tariff uncertainty and an impeachment inquiry in Washington. The National Retail Federation, which released its annual holiday sales forecast Thursday, says retail sales will increase between 3.8 percent and 4.2 percent during the last two months... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-03 19:49:51 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our daily newsletter. You can also get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. The FBI’s... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-03 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corp and co-chairman of Fox Corp., who built his fortune in the newspaper Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-10-01 07:00:50 UTC ]
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Sometimes an ad gets just a little too truthful for its own good. By the time this 1972 full-pager for Benson & Hedges 100’s ran in Life magazine, smoking was widely understood to be associated with a range of serious diseases. So, sure, let’s equate using our product to jumping out of a... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-30 09:00:00 UTC ]
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Employees at ad agencies, tech companies and brands skipped work today to join the Global Climate Strike, a protest of government and corporate inaction on climate change. Today's strike, scheduled just ahead of the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York, is the third event in a series of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-20 22:10:02 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our daily newsletter. You can also get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Facebook’s... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-20 10:00:00 UTC ]
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At the end of 2018, Magna Global released its advertising forecast, which predicted that digital advertising will account for 50 percent of global ad spend in 2019. During my decade in the digital media space, part of which has been as the vice president of a digital media and ad tech marketing... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-18 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Fundamentally, advertising doesn’t work unless it is seen. In print media, the mantra was “far forward, on a right-hand page, facing a full page of editorial content.” On TV, it was and still is “the first or last spot in the advertising pod.” And in the digital publishing world, it is “above... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-09-12 18:40:59 UTC ]
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After 12 years, Sabrina Caluori, executive vice president of digital media and marketing at HBO, is leaving the network. Caluori broke the news in a LinkedIn post, recounting the numerous events and initiatives her team has brought to life at HBO and thanking them for their hard work. As of now,... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-09-10 21:48:25 UTC ]
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Welcome to another edition of Ad Age Sports Media Brief, a weekly roundup of news from every zone of the sports media spray chart, including the latest on broadcast/cable/streaming, sponsorships, endorsements, gambling and tech. Back in Black NFL ad pricing has rebounded after last year’s drop,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-06 09:00:00 UTC ]
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A month after longtime AMC Networks ad sales executive Scott Collins parted ways with the home of “The Walking Dead” and “Killing Eve,” the cable programmer has tapped a mainstay from the magazine world to oversee its linear TV and digital inventory. AMC this afternoon announced that it has... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-03 23:26:31 UTC ]
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Amazon's audiobook company Audible has agreed to delay parts of its disputed speech-to-text feature until permission and licensing issues are resolved. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-29 22:46:55 UTC ]
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News Corp said it would not take a cut of ad revenue generated by articles from Knewz.com. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2019-08-23 08:34:39 UTC ]
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To make booking and running global campaigns easier for clients, magazine company Hearst has built up its centralized, global digital Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-08-14 14:50:56 UTC ]
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The magazine company has run over 200 global campaign over the last year from its centralized team of 26 people, based in London. The post 1 year in, Hearst Digital Media’s revamped global ad team doubled its revenue appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-08-14 04:01:54 UTC ]
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SCIENCE FICTION HAS BEEN mapping the topography of a yawning postcapitalism since the cyberpunk movement of the 1980s, a laborious undertaking still ongoing in the 21st century. Before cyberpunk, Deleuze and Guattari pointed the way in their books on capitalism and schizophrenia; after... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-08-03 12:30:19 UTC ]
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Just over a month after President Trump suspended planned tariffs on a range of consumer products coming from China, including books, he has vowed to impose a new tariff that would affect the same group of goods. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Being an online publisher has never been more difficult. Web browser providers have pared down on ad-targeting capabilities in recent years, adding to publishers' struggles to monetize traffic and attempts to reduce reliance on third parties. Now Google is taking user privacy a step further,... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-07-29 21:22:56 UTC ]
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As Pearson continues to overhaul its education operations, the company said its stake in Penguin Random House contributed £25 million to its adjusted operating profit, up from £22 million in the first half of 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has struck a deal with The Trade Desk and Dataxu, two sources of online advertising, to deliver commercials to Fire TV. On Friday, Amazon announced the new arrangement developed for media companies that stream video on Fire TV. The video publishers can now set up what are known as... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-27 00:05:42 UTC ]
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