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. TikTok wants to stay weird (but apolitical) Short-video app TikTok just announced that it won’t accept political ads. The Chinese-owned app, popular with teenagers globally, is a place for goofy memes and lip-syncing; the app says it wants to stay “light-hearted and irreverent” and doesn’t think paid political ads fit with that vibe. “People come to TikTok because it just feels different from so many other places, and we'll continue to work hard to support that,” Blake Chandlee, a former Facebook executive who is now TikTok’s VP of global business solutions, wrote in a blog post. He says the app “will not allow paid ads that promote or oppose a candidate, current leader, political party or group or issue at the federal, state or local level — including election-related ads, advocacy ads or issue ads.” Political ads are a tricky business, as Facebook (and Chandlee) found out when bad actors based in Russia tried to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. And TikTok, which is owned by China’s ByteDance, is “already under fire for advancing Chinese foreign policy by censoring topics like Hong Kong’s protests and pro-LGBT content,” TechCrunch writes. Basically, why court more controversy... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-04 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Collins has bought a book about forgiveness co-authored by South African churchman Desmond Tutu... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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RICHMOND — Newspaper publishers around Virginia are trying to fend off another electronic attack on their industry — this time from lawmakers who say it's time to do away with a requirement that cities and counties advertis ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orlando Whitfield, assistant editor at Atlantic Books, has acquired Autumn in the Heavenly... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster has signed another two as-yet-untitled novels by The Bellwether Revivals... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin has acquired a title written by solar physicist Doctor Lucie Green, which looks at the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quadrille has acquired a title by TV chef and owner of London restaurant The Star of India Reza... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To address the growing need for accountability in digital marketing, GfK MRI has launched a syndicated service called Starch Digital. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Imagine buying a car that locks you into one brand of fuel. That new BMW only runs on BMW gas. There are plenty of BMW gas stations around, so convenience isn't an issue. But if a different brand of gas station offers a discount, a membership program, or some other marketing campaign, you can't... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Century has acquired two novels in a new procedural crime series by author Ed Chatterton,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Academics have called for a boycott of publisher Elsevier, saying it is involved in "the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus has bought three books by Katie Piper, who survived a rape and acid attack in 2008 and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For a company which business depends on collecting data, Google sure was slow tabulating its report on smartphone usage. The study is available today, but the data is already outdated given strong holiday ebook reader and tablet sales and global impact of 37 million iPhones sold during fourth... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The magazine publisher will more than double its digital presence, by acquiring the world's biggest food site. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A group of writers in India have set up a petition calling for the lifting of the country's... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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U.S. online ad spending is set to eclipse that of print this year by 15.5 percent, according to eMarketer, suggesting that the long-awaited print-to-digital inflection point may now be here for both content creators and marketers. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a new study undertaken by comScore to support the release of a new digital ad measurement solution, the company found that 31 percent of ads are delivered, but not seen by consumers. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster is to publish two new novels by Kishwar Desai, along with a re-release of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the internet pats itself on the back for protesting SOPA and changing the minds of a handful of U.S. Senators, file-sharing site Megaupload has been brought down in one of the largest copyright infringement cases of all time. Seven individuals and two international corporations have been... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber has acquired a third novel from Apples author Richard Milward. Publishing director Lee... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch's US media giant News Corp is expanding its presence in the Middle East media market and beyond by agreeing to acquire a minority stake in Dubai-based media company Moby Group. Under the deal, News Corp will relinquish its 50 per ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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