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 Wake-Up Call newsletters. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device; sign up here. Mark Zuckerberg faces Congress Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the House Financial Services Committee yesterday, and faced some tough questions, not only about the company's planned cryptocurrency, Libra, but also concerning its overall power and influence. According to Bloomberg News, Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters said Facebook should stop work on its cryptocurrency project until the company addresses a series of unrelated “deficiencies” in its social media business. “You have opened up a serious discussion about whether Facebook should be broken up,” she said. The hearings come as Facebook is set to launch its “news tab” at an event on Friday, according to the Washington Post. Zuckerberg hinted at the debut in his Congress testimony, saying ”a big initiative around news and journalism” would launch later in the week. The Post says the list of participating organizations, initially totaling about 200, will include itself, the Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed News and many local news sources. The New York Times is also likely be involved, although this isn’t yet confirmed. J.Lo and A-Rod’s meal kit line Multi-talented Jennifer Lopez has her fingers in lots... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-24 10:29:51 UTC ]
The influx of star podcasters looms over a dispute between the union and managers at the Spotify-owned digital media company founded by Bill Simmons. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-11-19 16:09:33 UTC ]
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When the United States entered the Great Recession, newsroom employment started to plummet. During the first half of 2009, more than a hundred papers closed; ten thousand news workers lost their jobs. In the years that followed, even after the economy picked up, outlets continued shedding... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-11-16 18:55:53 UTC ]
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As the industry was still unsure when sports would return and TV production would resume, Ed Georger, evp, advertising sales and digital media for Crown Media Family Networks, Hallmark Channel's parent company, had a calming message for clients. "The one thing you can count on: They will not... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-11-16 01:00:00 UTC ]
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As Trump and his allies continue their desperate efforts to overturn the election results, there are reports that the soon-to-be former president is planning to launch his own media venture. Mike Allen, of Axios, wrote in his newsletter on Thursday that Trump “has told friends he wants to start... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-11-13 12:41:44 UTC ]
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Government will oversee online news, social media and video streaming platformsIndia’s government has ordered that all online news, social media and video streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime are to be subject to state regulation, raising fears of increased censorship of digital... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-11-11 18:02:04 UTC ]
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Following its its success in the US, the ethical platform Bookshop.org has arrived in the UK, marking an exciting new chapter for independent stores onlineIn publishing we often talk about things that we are “excited” and “delighted” about, so much that sometimes I think the words have lost... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-11-05 08:00:40 UTC ]
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There are a ton of entertainment options in today's digital media landscape. You can play video games online with friends, stream television shows and movies with loved ones, sign up for fitness classes at the touch of a button and the list goes on.A... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2020-11-04 18:55:30 UTC ]
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DoubleVerify said Monday that its Authentic Brand Safety targeting is now available on Google Display & Video 360, Google Marketing Platform's demand-side platform. The digital media measurement, data and analytics platform said Authentic Brand Safety enables consistent activation of brand... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-11-02 18:20:24 UTC ]
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Fred Klein, who helped make Bantam Books a major force in mass market paperback publishing in the 1960s and 1970s, died on October 22. He was described by a former colleague as "the greatest ringmaster the publishing world has ever known.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
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In the modern digital media landscape, we are not the customers — or even the audience — we are the product. Every time we log on, our personal data including where we go, what we search for, who we interact with and what we buy is scraped, siphoned,... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2020-10-24 15:00:11 UTC ]
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YouTube, Spotify, podcasts or TikTok may be digital, but they are decidedly warmer than, say, search-engine optimisation. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2020-10-12 09:21:30 UTC ]
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This year’s Digiday Technology Awards recognized the tech companies driving the digital media industry forward. Pioneers in the space spearheaded everything from marketing and advertising to personalization and subscriptions. The post Vox Media, Productsup and Zephr join this year’s Digiday... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2020-10-06 18:30:44 UTC ]
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After reporting success with a similar scheme in the US, Havas Media Group wants to make it easier for UK advertisers to buy digital media that targets underrepresented audiences. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2020-09-21 15:04:05 UTC ]
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As the founder and CEO of digital media investment bank Luma Partners LLC, Terence Kawaja is a problem solver by nature. But earlier this summer, as Kawaja watched his news feed, he found himself hearing about problems that left him at a loss. He read about the killing of George Floyd and police... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-09-03 12:30:00 UTC ]
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Seven months into the novel coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., ad buyers are still entering the market with uncertainty. Spending on traditional offline media is expected to be slashed by almost a third, although this could be offset by the continued rise in digital media investment by... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-09-02 14:20:11 UTC ]
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Campaign will have a "large paid traditional and digital media component" including TV, radio and out of home ads, document states. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2020-09-02 14:20:09 UTC ]
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Over the last five years, a number of U.S. digital media darlings journeyed to the U.K. and beyond, fuelled by venture-capital funding with sights set on global expansion. The post ‘Not enough money to go around’: US digital-media publishers curb international expansion appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2020-08-26 04:01:12 UTC ]
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Bolinda has scooped a “laugh out loud” romantic comedy by debut author Aly Mennuti, featuring a literary agent based partly on the author's own, Simon Trewin. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-25 02:20:12 UTC ]
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Some of the world's largest brands are spending more on programmatic advertising, just as the practice is set to become much harder. Members of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) are directing 41% of their digital media budgets to programmatic channels, up from 16% in 2016. Exact figures... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-08-20 15:32:30 UTC ]
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For years, Penny Muse Abernathy—the Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism—has been studying the disintegration of journalism’s traditional business model, mapping losses of physical newsrooms across the United States. The current financial... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-08-19 12:57:27 UTC ]
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