Tel Aviv-based Tastewise, which uses gen AI to automate sales and marketing for food and beverage companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Telus Global Ventures
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X sues the World Federation of Advertisers, GARM, and GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted, and Unilever over what Linda Yaccarino calls an “illegal boycott”
In an all-hands at X, formerly Twitter, CEO Linda Yaccarino attempted … Karissa Bell / Engadget : X sues advertisers for ‘illegal boycott’ of the platform Grace Eliza Goodwin / Business Insider : Elon...
Draft: a trade group representing the NYT, the Post, Disney, and NBCUniversal tells members that AI tools trained on their archives could break copyright laws
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Google now lets users disable targeted ads without breaking useful features by having to turn off settings like Web & App Activity and YouTube History
Online advertising doesn't need to be confusing or out of your control. Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews : Google launches My Ad Center to give you more control over the ads you see Chris Stokel-Walke...
California's AG says Sephora agreed to pay $1.2M for failing to tell customers that it was selling their data, marking the start of CCPA privacy law enforcement
failure to disclose it was selling consumer data and failure to adhere to GPC opt-out signals. https://oag.ca.gov/... Wafa Ben-Hassine / @ousfourita : This is the first #CCPA enforcement action. $1.2M...
Research: Reddit's brand-safety approach to monetization is cautious, labeling all subreddits as no_ads until a manual human review applies some_ads or all_ads
Ryan Barwick / Marketing Brew : Tweets: @alibreland and @ryanbarwick Tweets: Ali Breland / @alibreland : reddit doesn't put ads on r/ska, bc they agree it's not valuable. no money to be made from tho...
FBI seems to be targeting disgruntled staff working at the Russian embassy in Washington DC via geo-targeted recruitment ads on Facebook, Twitter, and Google
The FBI is trying a novel strategy to recruit Russian-speaking individuals upset about the country's invasion of Ukraine … Tweets: @digiphile , @katieharbath , @hexadecim8 , @mattblaze , @zachsdorfman...
Study: 48% of ad traffic on “fake” news publishers and 32% of ad traffic on “low credibility sites” like Breitbart is served by Google
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After the deaths of five people at a “party house”, Airbnb unveils new safety policies: verifying 100% of listings, a 24/7 “neighbor hotline”, and more
Earlier today, Airbnb Co-Founder … Maxwell Strachan / VICE : Airbnb Promises to Verify All 7 Million Listings After VICE Report Exposes Scam New York Times : DealBook Conference Live Updates: Airbnb P...