Amazon Ads and Roku sign an ad initiative that will give media buyers access to 80%+ of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP
In a milestone agreement, Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a new advertising initiative that will give media buyers access …
Sources and docs: Amazon has increased Prime Video's ad load to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes per hour when it introduced ads in January 2024
streaming just got a lot worse David Satin / The Streamable : Prime Video has doubled the number of ads it makes viewers watch Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Prime Video reported...
Sources and docs: Amazon has increased Prime Video's ad load to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes per hour when it introduced ads in January 2024
streaming just got a lot worse David Satin / The Streamable : Prime Video has doubled the number of ads it makes viewers watch Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Prime Video reported...
OpenAI's pitch deck to news publishers promises priority placement to partners in chat conversations and payment contingent on “display success”
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Social networks and the internet have been a valuable force multiplier for Ukraine and the allies of democracy during the early days of Russia's invasion
How much will it matter? Notes on the platforms in wartime — Over the past decade, the biggest tech companies came to feel less …
TikTok confirms it has shut down access to Russian sites RT and Sputnik in Europe following requests from individual governments and the European Union
Facebook and TikTok said Monday that the companies would shut down access to Kremlin-controlled media sites RT and Sputnik in Europe, setting the stage for retaliation from Russia.
Spotify introduces Call-to-Action Cards, a visual ad format for podcasts that puts clickable cards inside show and episode pages
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Some Instagram accounts, such as NextShark, increasingly document incidents of anti-Asian violence that some say spurs a relentless cycle of aggregated trauma
Terry Nguyen / Vox : Tweets: @terrygtnguyen , @abbyohlheiser , @delia_cai , @notoriousecg , @eileenguo , @noahreservation , @filipgwriting , @raywongy , @er_ique , @niemanlab , @k...
For many services, moderating content has become an existential crisis; some services are even establishing rules that pre-empt the need for costly moderation
Content moderation rules used to be a question of taste. Now, they can determine a service's prospects for survival. Tweets: @mims , @wiczipedia , @roncharles , @mims , @maxabrahm...
Clubhouse, which centralizes creation and consumption into a feedback loop, will do for audio what Twitter, Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video
To what extent are new companies, particularly those in new spaces, pushed versus pulled into existence? Last week I wrote about how Tesla is a Meme Company:
A skeptical look at Clubhouse, where most conversations are boring and whose audio-centric, synchronous content may be far less compelling after the pandemic
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! … Share Medialyte — Clubhouse in the dog house — On Sunday night … Tweets: @rafat , @elenistefanou , @mathowie , @mathowie , @martinfehrense...
A skeptical look at Clubhouse, where most conversations are boring and whose audio-centric, synchronous content may be far less compelling after the pandemic
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! … Share Medialyte — Clubhouse in the dog house — On Sunday night … Tweets: @rafat , @elenistefanou , @mathowie , @mathowie , @martinfehrense...