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Ads.txt is showing publishers that domain spoofing remains a big problem for their video ad businesses. In a study being published Dec. 12 by independent consultant Matthew Goldstein, a group of 16 publishers — including The Washington Post, Daily Mail, Turner, The New York Times and USA Today — found that advertisers spent $3.5 million a…
Image: Screengrab via Twitter Товарищи, Terrible news. Project Gizmodnik, our brilliant plan to secretly infiltrate the U.S. tech media for the glorification of Matushka Rossiya’s Great Leader Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and/or the destruction of global capitalism*, has been compromised by American “super spy” Eric Garland. Fellow deep cover Russian operatives, you may remember…
2017’s “YouTube Rewind,” the end-of-year advertisement for the biggest trends and hottest creators on the platform, urges people to come together after an awful year. This heartfelt sentiment lasts about thirty seconds before the camera plunges back down to earth, where a rooftop party rages. Here, two blonde men look out at the horizon, squad…
Many of the publishers that spent 2016 and 2017 investing in Facebook products like Instant Articles and news feed videos enter the new year with new perspective on the relationship they have with the world’s largest social platform. For the latest installment of our Confessions series, in which we exchange anonymity for candor, we spoke…
New York City is retiring many of its Cold War-era signs designating certain indoor spaces as “nuclear fallout shelters.” prevent margin collapsing There are thousands of the signs around the five boroughs, but officials say they’re misleading, and no longer denoate active shelters. That’s because it’s been decades since anyone has taken care of the…
Image via Getty The political tell-all has become a lucrative option for former politicians, hacks, and hangers-on who wish to turn onetime proximity to power into a big payday. In just the last year, Barack and Michelle Obama inked a post-White House joint memoir deal that included a reported $65 million advance, and Hillary Clinton…
A silly social video by Vanity Fair that suggested New Year’s resolutions for Hillary Clinton drew harsh backlash from #Resistance Twitter myrmidons who can’t take a joke, sparking a faux scandal dumb enough to neatly encapsulate social media in 2017. The mind-numbing episode began on December 23 with a 63-second clip, the type of cheap,…
Screengrab from The Post trailer The Post, the new Steven Spielberg film out at midnight, has been sold as a parable for our own dark political times. Tracing The Washington Post’s 1971 publication of the Pentagon Papers, the movie portrays heroic media figures fighting to get the truth out in the face of a corrupt…
This summer, Ozy.com, a news site that’s raised more than $35 million in funding from high-profile investors, published a group of articles in an ongoing series about how companies and entrepreneurs are trying to be a positive force in their communities. The content was created as part of a partnership with JPMorgan Chase, whose logo…
The Israeli intelligence service asked the great psychologist Daniel Kahneman for help in the 1970s, and Kahneman came back with a suggestion: Get rid of the classic intelligence report. It allows leaders to justify any conclusion they want, Kahneman said. In its place, he suggested giving the leaders estimated probabilities of events. The intelligence service…