Now Playboy deletes its Facebook account, citing values

Playboy announced its intention to deactivate its Facebook accounts and leave the social network amid escalating concerns about the platform's mismanagement of user data.The publisher said the decision follows the difficulty it has felt for years to express its "values" on Facebook, due to the platform's policy on prohibiting nudity."While that has challenged our business objectives and the ability to reach our audience in an authentic way, the recent news about Facebook's alleged mismanagement of users' data has solidified our decision to suspend our activity on the platform at this time," the company said in a statement Wednesday. "There are more than 25 million fans who engage with Playboy via our various Facebook pages and we do not want to be complicit in exposing them to the reported practices." Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Bloomberg, ESPN and others aren’t doing Facebook Instant Articles

A year after Facebook launched Instant Articles, 100 or so publishers were on board the fast-loading mobile article feature, which has its pros and cons. Perhaps that's why there have been some notable holdouts. Bloomberg Media, The Wall Street Journal and Vice News are among those that have all... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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YouTube and Facebook leave video platform pretenders in the dust

Verizon and Comcast are not the first to try and build streaming video platforms for the best short-form web content -- AOL and Yahoo have already failed at it. Unlike digital publishers that dip their toes into video, these companies are willing to spend serious money on content. But money... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bowker Now Cites at Least 625,327 US Indie Books Published in 2015

Likely the most authoritative count of a year's self-published books in the USA, Bowker's figure sorts out how many titles are represented by the number of indie ISBNs sold in 2015. The post Bowker Now Cites at Least 625,327 US Indie Books Published in 2015 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 charts: The state of publishers and Facebook

The International News Media Association (INMA) released a survey of large publishers last week that captured their complicated relationship with Facebook. These five charts document publishers’ perception of various Facebook features, their mixed feelings about Instant Articles, changes in... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers have their own gripes with Facebook measurement

Facebook's measurement problem goes beyond video. The social giant's data sharing practices as a whole are a sticking point with publishers. The chief things they want Facebook to share are more data on Instant Articles; how content performs by subject matter; and information on live video... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What Marriott learned from its faulty Facebook Messenger chatbot

When Marriott made its first foray into Facebook Messenger in March 2016, it was a complete disaster. The hotel brand took its dynamic product ads to people’s Facebook inboxes, initiating automated conversations that asked them if they still wanted to book a room at the Courtyard Marriott... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some publishers appear to be cooling on Facebook Instant Articles

Are publishers cooling on Facebook Instant Articles? An analysis by Newswhip says that several publishers are posting very little to the fast-loading articles format or appear to be pulling back. Instant Articles has been controversial since Facebook launched it a little over a year ago because... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft Team Up to Make Artificial Intelligence Less Scary

The Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society was unveiled today by Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft. Indeed, that's quite a name and quite a list of companies. Their chief mission is to promote public understanding of AI while developing standards and... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Slate tried to wean itself from fly-by Facebook visitors in favor of loyal regulars

Facebook's algorithm can giveth as well as taketh away, which has some publishers reconsidering its relationship to the platform. Slate, for one, is now measuring itself by a set of reader loyalty metrics as a way to prove its distinctiveness to advertisers. So far this year, the number of... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers Tweak Their Approach to Facebook Live

Facebook wants users of its Facebook Live streaming service, including media publishers, to "go live frequently," so as to maintain a steady stream of offerings and grow a base of consistent viewers, as encouraged in an online "tips" page. But just how often to really use Facebook Live is a... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kenya Publishers Association Cites Concern for Reading Culture

'The problem with the Kenyan society is that we read mostly for exams.' The country's publishers say they're troubled by children's lack of a reading habit. The post Kenya Publishers Association Cites Concern for Reading Culture appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook encourages visits to physical retailers through customizable ads to local inventory

The world of digital advertising might be “mobile first,” but it’s increasingly setting its sights on the physical realm.This week, Facebook introduces a new mobile ad capability that aims to encourage in-store traffic and purchases — while also courting bricks-and-mortar advertisers. The product... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook’s video metrics screw-up, explained

Facebook miscalculated how it was measuring average watch time on its platform. Agencies claim it’s not affected how they conduct business because they trade based on performance metrics like impressions, 10-second views and completed views -- not average watch time. That said, agencies and... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Uplifting' account of modern-day masculinity to S&S

Simon & Schuster is to publish Chase the Rainbow, an "honest yet uplifting" account of a woman's life affected by the suicide of her husband by journalist Poorna Bell. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Apologizes for Overstating Video Metrics

The social media network was leaving out videos viewed for less than three seconds, which greatly inflated the figures presented to advertisers and publishers. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Josh Topolsky on his new startup: ‘There’s a new generation that is not that interested in Facebook’

Chasing scale has overwhelmingly driven digital publishing, but veteran tech journalist Josh Topolsky believes there's a sustainable digital model for thoughtful journalism that doesn’t require joining the race for scale or doing Facebook’s bidding. For his forthcoming site The Outline, he wants... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers: Facebook is still a frenemy

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[ Digiday | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ICYMI: How Facebook is wresting control from publishers and agencies alike

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[ Digiday | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Facebook embraced the ad network model

Facebook Audience Network is growing by rejecting many of the beliefs held sacred by the ad tech world: It doesn't rely on cookies, it doesn't run real-time bidding, and it doesn't serve desktop display ads. As fast growing as it is, FAN is taking ad control away from publishers and advertisers... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ AdWeek | 2016-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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