Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021
Despite concerns, politicians continue to use Elon Musk's platform in search of a ‘civilised debate’ with constituents
Netflix says it's on track to double its advertising revenue this year and that it will roll out interactive ads in the second half of 2025
Q3 Set To Repeat Todd Spangler / Variety : H1 2025 Engagement Report: viewers watched 95B hours globally, with Adolescence and Back in Action as the most-watched TV show and movie James Hyerczyk / FX ...
Steam creates an ad documentation page highlighting its ban on forcing players to watch ads, saying “developers should not utilize paid ads as a business model”
Turns out this was actually already a rule that Valve had (thanks SteamDB). It was listed on their Pricing page …
Sources: Meta's Community Notes won't apply to paid ads, but will be enabled for organic content, which includes brands' and influencers' unpromoted posts
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal :
X remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, with DC insiders reluctantly buying blue checks and candidates paying for cheap ads
While former President Donald Trump was actively being convicted by a jury of his peers in New York City last week … Threads: @joanwestenberg , @joanwestenberg , @theromit , @moskov , @drewharwell , @...
How Shein and Temu, which are spending billions on digital ads and offering steep discounts or free products, have become big threats to Amazon in the US
In the fall of 2020, Amazon looked unstoppable. The pandemic lockdowns had supercharged its e-commerce business … X: @carnage4life , @carnage4life , @joshuaogundu , @lmatsakis , and @kantrowitz X: Da...
How Shein and Temu, which are spending billions on digital ads and offering steep discounts or free products, have become big threats to Amazon in the US
In the fall of 2020, Amazon looked unstoppable. The pandemic lockdowns had supercharged its e-commerce business … X: @joshuaogundu , @kantrowitz , @lmatsakis , and @kantrowitz X: Josh / @joshuaogundu...
Meta rejects the Oversight Board's recommendation to suspend former Cambodian PM Hun Sen's account because doing so would “not be consistent with our policies”
but, in fairness, it's not straightforward. — Vittoria Elliott (who isn't active on Bluesky, AFAIK) has written very thoughtfully about the tradeoffs of a decision like this in Wired: www.wired.com/...
How some people use “date-me docs”, online documents akin to newspaper personal ads, to look for more meaningful connections than those found in dating apps
Writers of the online text profiles, which can read like 1,000-word versions of the personal ads of yore … Twitter: @stephmui , @lazerwalker , @taylr , @lioninawhat , @sdho , and @abiylfoyp Forums: Ha...
Report: Facebook approved eight paid ads submitted by rights group Global Witness containing hate speech and calls for violence against Myanmar's Rohingya
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence … Source: Global Witness .