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Russia is threatening the “liberal international order”: Biden went after Putin directly, and said he’s using “every tool” in his power to whittle away at Europe and undermine Western democracies. Biden also warned that he expects Russia to meddle in the many European elections being held later this year. “The top 1% is not carrying…
If you involve yourself with Airbnb in any way, you’re killing us all. Thanks. via Why Airbnb Is Terrible – Cracked Explains – YouTube.
News organizations have been producing loads of video content to fill social media feeds and attract higher ad rates, but a new report from the social analytics firm Parse.ly finds that users engage with video much less than other content types. Parse.ly examined the performance of four types of posts within its network of 700…
< ?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″????> Anthony Rushton, Telemetry CEO. Bloomberg/YouTube Telemetry, an adtech outfit that specialized in detecting fraudulent traffic and was once tipped to be worth $486m plus a possible IPO, has closed its operations The Drum has learned – a development that took place in the immediate aftermath of the recent Methbot revelations. Industry…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” The Trouble With Publishing the Trump Dossier In distributing a set of inflammatory allegations that it admitted it could not vouch for, BuzzFeed sidestepped a basic principle of journalism. Google Metadata Mike Segar / Reuters START “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 END “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Facebook is doing what many publishers had hoped it would one day do, according to Recode: opening up another key revenue stream for video producers. The so-called “mid-roll” ad unit, which inserts an advertiser’s clip in the middle of a video instead of up front or at the end, will enter…
Let’s face it. Most of what we ad people do is really dopey.I wasn’t much of a creative person, but I’ve had the good fortune to know some great ones. There is one thing about them that I love. They work hard and have high standards, but they also have an enduring sense of how…
When Google launched Allo and Duo last year, it recast hangouts as a cross-platform chat app for enterprise customers. Now it’s making changes to help ensure that fate. A quiet update to the Google Hangouts FAQ reveals that the sun will set on the platform’s API in late April. Effectively, this means any consumer app…
We started There Is Only R over the summer as our in-house publication about all things VR/AR/MR. (“There is no VR/AR/MR, there is only R”.) It has multiple functions for us: it allows us to talk to innovators in the industry, it helps us educate ourselves about what’s happening, it provides us with a platform to express…
Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, spent five years building Medium into one of the slickest publishing platforms on the web. Yet he found himself in traditional-publishing purgatory on Wednesday, cutting 50 employees and searching for a new business model. There could be no better proof that delivery methods matter little and content is king….