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Where the Buffalo Roam + Google Brand Studio Navigate the Pandemic in Italy with “The Bicycling Bookseller" Branded documentary is a true tale of hope and resilience. by: PriyaPR, Mar 10 2021 - 11:28pm	Creating a logo that becomes a meme, while others reap the financial benefit Pakistani designer, minimalist and self-confessed type-o-holic Owais Riaz created the logo meme of 2020 back in June, which reached the front page of by: Dabitch, Nov 17 2020 - 10:10pm	Yelp unveils new anti-racist platform The UGC review platform wants to ensure diversity and inclusion exists, and will therefore allow businesses to be reported for "racist behavior.& by: kidsleepy, Oct 9 2020 - 6:21pm
2 Comments Paypal blocks the word "Tardigrade" and "Cuba", forcing shops to rename their products In yet another example of the algorithm only being as smart as the human who programmed it, Paypal has caused sales losses and scared off customers fr by: Dabitch, Sep 11 2020 - 8:52pm	1 Comment "I ❤️JK Rowling" banner temporarily back at Waverley train station, Edinburgh. This Friday, people at Waverly train station were momentarily treated to another glimpse of the controversial "I ❤️JK Rowling" poster design by: Dabitch, Aug 3 2020 - 10:40pm	Reddit bans women's & feminist subs in their clean-up effort, making "Reddithateswomen" trend Reddit banned over 2000 "hate subs" on June 29, attempting to quell "hateful and violent speech". by: Dabitch, Jul 15 2020 - 1:04am
2 Comments Instagram needs to bring back chronological feed Back in 2016, Instagram decided that rather than have you scroll through your feed in reverse chronological order, it would completely change its algo by: kidsleepy, May 5 2020 - 6:15pm	Your tech overloads want to monitor your every move. Not content to merely harvest your private information, your driving whereabouts, music listening tastes and spending habits, as well as recognizing y by: kidsleepy, Apr 10 2020 - 8:56pm	Pornhub continues its ethics-washing with a Valentine's Day pop-up Today on Adage there's an article with the headline "Inside Pornhub's unexpectedly buttoned-up Valentine's Day pop-up." Fo by: kidsleepy, Feb 14 2020 - 10:44pm
Ask Siri who the President of Israel is, and you'll get an anti-Semitic answer Here's a lesson on how to alienate your fan base. by: kidsleepy, Jan 19 2020 - 4:37am	Esthero hacks Spotify to rail against the company's awful royalty payments Canadian singer Esthero joins other musicians and groups like Vulfpek who have found a way (or at least tried) to circumvent Spotify's notoriousl by: kidsleepy, Sep 18 2019 - 6:14am	Artists, fans, labels: Here's how to claim the money PledgeMusic took from you I was initially going to call this article "Crowdfunding to make music to crowdfund to," but Dabitch put her foot down as that was too much by: kidsleepy, Aug 10 2019 - 2:22am
11 Comments Twitter and Wordpress banned women from their platform due to a sordid case in Canada's human rights tribunal filed by Jessica Yaniv We reported earlier on the fact that Wordpress shut down several feminist blogs without warning, where one of the most interesting aspects of this was by: Dabitch, Jul 24 2019 - 2:42pm	Tibet Campaigners Laud Success After Google Confirms “No Plans to Offer a Search Engine in China” The announcement follows a global outcry at the company’s controversial development of ‘Project Dragonfly’ by: Adland, Jun 19 2019 - 3:30pm	1 Comment Salon is for sale. For only $5 million. The digital media company's sale price is just 5 million USD. by: kidsleepy, May 27 2019 - 8:24pm
1 Comment Facebook refuses Christian Democrat's election ad, because she is seen hunting in it. Ella Bohlin is a candidate for the European Parliament from the Christian Democrat party in Sweden. by: Dabitch, May 17 2019 - 1:19am	Alphabet shareholders call for Google’s parent company to be broken up Consumer group SumOfUs believes that Alphabet is too large to be managed effectively and that creates conditions for collusion with oppressive regimes by: Dabitch, May 10 2019 - 7:32pm	Jesus Jones just one of untold artists stiffed by PledgeMusic by: kidsleepy, Apr 25 2019 - 7:02am
29 Comments Wordpress shuts down several feminist blogs without warning. Wordpress hosting, wich is run by the folks at Automattic, is targeting and shutting down femnist blogs without warning. by: Dabitch, Nov 21 2018 - 8:46pm	It's time to disrupt the disrupters. by: kidsleepy, Jun 7 2018 - 7:05pm	If data is king, it's time to dethrone the masters by: kidsleepy, Feb 13 2018 - 7:38pm
Your privacy & programmatic advertising, MAD decentralized ad network solves the conflict with a new protocol by: Dabitch, Feb 2 2018 - 12:15am	2 Comments Patreonomics: The numbers just aren't adding up by: kidsleepy, Dec 28 2017 - 10:00pm	Unable to compete with Google & Facebook, Vid.me video platform shuts down December 15 by: Dabitch, Dec 2 2017 - 2:36pm
3 Comments The Adpocalypse part 2: YouTube faces advertiser boycott over videos that attracted sexual predators by: Dabitch, Nov 26 2017 - 4:22pm	Go Fund Me has a spam problem. Who is policing it? by: kidsleepy, Nov 23 2017 - 3:59am	8 Comments Content Creators Coalition can't even respect their own content creators. by: Dabitch, Nov 22 2017 - 9:32pm
Twitter will determine verification status by your offline behavior, too by: kidsleepy, Nov 19 2017 - 8:07pm	5 Comments Content Creators Coalition copies "Mac vs PC", stealing ideas but not music is apparently OK The Content Creators Coalition have come out with two ads to try and rustle up some sympathy for creators in the day and age of free digital stuff™ by: Dabitch, Oct 27 2017 - 12:08am	Ad Banners use your browser to mine for their bitcoin by: Dabitch, Oct 26 2017 - 6:54pm
On fixing digital ad fraud: If not now, when? At the end of December 2014, the Association of National Advertisers and White Ops released their first Bot Baseline Report, a study surveying the dig by: kidsleepy, Sep 22 2017 - 6:26pm	Google appeals EU antitrust fine worth nearly 3 billion by: kidsleepy, Sep 12 2017 - 5:31pm	Facebook fudges the numbers again, claims to reach more people in U.S. than U.S. census data shows exist by: Dabitch, Sep 6 2017 - 2:22pm
3 Comments Google's ad traffic is like the news: Fake. The WSJ is reporting that Google is issuing refunds to advertisers over "fake traffic," and are now working on new safeguards against the is by: Dabitch, Aug 25 2017 - 11:10pm	Why is Apple Music supporting a controversial advocacy organization? by: kidsleepy, Aug 23 2017 - 7:15pm	2 Comments Spotify really hates musicians. by: kidsleepy, Jul 19 2017 - 7:01pm
1 Comment Not content with data mining, Ancestry also keeps your DNA by: kidsleepy, Jul 16 2017 - 7:56am	SoundCloud: Another lesson in "disruption" by: kidsleepy, Jul 14 2017 - 2:43am	Youtube: $12 Billion dollars in revenue, still wants you to work for free. by: Dabitch, Jul 1 2017 - 11:23am
The Washington Post to offer audio articles using Amazon Polly by: Dabitch, Jun 13 2017 - 6:38pm	5 Comments Apple rejects game app for containing images of Pepe the Frog - saying that's "objectionable content" by: Dabitch, Jun 11 2017 - 4:11pm	Spotify settle class-action lawsuit filed by David Lowery and Melissa Ferrick by: kidsleepy, May 27 2017 - 5:51pm
8 Comments .@Sweden protects "freedom of speech" by blocking 14,400 supposed Nazis on Twitter. Removes block after pushback The famously controversial PR account for Sweden on Twitter, is once again grabbing news headlines around the world. by: Dabitch, May 17 2017 - 2:22am	1 Comment Burger King redubs "Connected Whopper" ad, triggers Google devices again by: Dabitch, Apr 14 2017 - 11:45am	4 Comments Youtube to small creators: No money for you Imagine if your Executive Creative Director pulled you into his office and said "Hey dude, we're only interested in making creative that get by: kidsleepy, Apr 6 2017 - 11:57pm
The Google/YouTube ad ban increases ad spend on established media channels by: Dabitch, Apr 4 2017 - 9:30am	3 Comments Martin Sorrell, WPP CEO says boycotting Google "doesn't make sense" by: Dabitch, Apr 2 2017 - 12:21pm	3 Comments "36% of consumers think that brands endorse YouTube’s offensive content" by: Dabitch, Apr 1 2017 - 3:11pm
21 Comments Be wary of buying ads on Reddit, the numbers are cooked. by: Dabitch, Apr 1 2017 - 11:55am	2 Comments Vevo reminds brands that they're a safe bet in the Youtube desert Worldwide brands who saw their super bowl commercials being pre-rolled in front of ISIS videos, have walked away from Youtube and Google advertising. by: Dabitch, Mar 31 2017 - 9:33am	The real reason for Googles Youtube cleanup: they're violating US Treasury Department terror fundraising sanctions by: Dabitch, Mar 29 2017 - 8:40am
12 Comments Google is making the web poorer. Adland reported that global brands are finally are shunning Google advertising. by: Dabitch, Mar 26 2017 - 12:07am	2 Comments Global brands shun Google advertising, finally - Google tighten content controls by: Dabitch, Mar 21 2017 - 7:44pm	2 Comments Google and Bing will make it harder to find illegal streaming sites. wink by: kidsleepy, Feb 21 2017 - 5:32pm
PewDiePie can teach us a lot--about Youtube's corporate sleaze. by: kidsleepy, Feb 17 2017 - 8:15am	2017 Superbowl commercials appear on Youtube pre-roll before ISIS videos by: Dabitch, Feb 9 2017 - 12:02pm	2 Comments Grave robbing David Bowie and other copyright issues by: kidsleepy, Jan 8 2017 - 5:05am
Run-DMC sues Wal-Mart, Amazon for 50 million by: kidsleepy, Dec 30 2016 - 6:46am	Twitter ads and ad revenue on social media is tied to ISIS propaganda claims suit by: Dabitch, Dec 3 2016 - 6:33pm	The price of online ads and what goes to the middlemen by: Dabitch, Dec 2 2016 - 7:20pm
8 Comments Breitbart banned from ad network for "hate speech", Kellogg's pulls all ads by: Dabitch, Nov 30 2016 - 11:04pm	Google: Don't be evil. Unless it comes to copyright, then it's fine. by: kidsleepy, Nov 3 2016 - 8:15pm	Wikileaks shows Google's Eric Schmidt is extra cozy with US Government by: kidsleepy, Nov 1 2016 - 7:12pm
Facebook got caught lying to advertisers again. by: kidsleepy, Sep 23 2016 - 6:44pm	Adblock Plus now sells ad space in ....adblock. by: Dabitch, Sep 13 2016 - 6:07pm	Forget the phones. Tomorrow Apple should talk about winning the music war. by: kidsleepy, Sep 7 2016 - 3:34am
5 Comments Vid.me positions itself as bastion of Video Liberty after #YouTubeIsOverParty trends - is same shit, different name by: Dabitch, Sep 2 2016 - 6:15pm	2 Comments #YouTubeIsOverParty trends when content creators discover Youtube policies are enforced - is seen as censorship by: Dabitch, Sep 2 2016 - 5:39am	4 Comments TL;DR Gawker broke the law - it doesn't matter who funded the suit by: Dabitch, Aug 19 2016 - 12:23am
Bye bye Gawker - Unilever shuts down Gawker operations next week by: kidsleepy, Aug 18 2016 - 7:35pm	Spotify enables programmatic: selling your fans out to the highest bidders in realtime by: Dabitch, Jul 22 2016 - 8:56pm	Step aside RIAA, the new creators care about copyright now. by: kidsleepy, Jul 16 2016 - 5:24am
5 Comments Pokémon GO is Pokémon Grabbing your data by: kidsleepy, Jul 12 2016 - 1:19am	2 Comments Paul McCartney and 180 other artists sign petition for digital copyright reform by: kidsleepy, Jun 21 2016 - 12:05am	3 Comments Tech Giants vow to end hate speech. This ought to go well. by: kidsleepy, May 31 2016 - 5:57pm
One in five smartphone users choose adblocker by: kidsleepy, May 31 2016 - 7:19am	Musicians take heart: bandcamp has your back by: kidsleepy, May 23 2016 - 8:04pm	7 Comments Facebook denies claims they manipulate trending topics by: Dabitch, May 10 2016 - 7:00am
The "Twitterati" are not served Twitter ads On Twitter, you might see me as a little red TV adland, as that usually is me cracking snarky jokes at all hours of the evening, though I am not the o by: Dabitch, May 5 2016 - 10:24am	Is your advertising budget funding copyright infringment? The IWL can help you. by: Dabitch, Apr 25 2016 - 12:07pm

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