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The Factory Is Facebook. The Product Being Manufactured Is You.
(With apologies to Adbusters) Dispatches from the Facebook/Marketing/Privacy vortex. From MediaPost: Facebook Rolls Out Promoted Posts, New Page Tools Facebook is taking steps to boost ad spending directly through brand pages, while also giving marketers new tools for managing their presence on … Continue reading
Facecrook! Privacy Lawsuit An Initial Public Offing?
Right before Facebook launched its ballyhooed but disappointing Initial Public Offering (IPO), the social media behemoth got whacked with a behemoth class-action suit over its privacy practices. Via The Telegraph: Facebook hit with $15bn privacy lawsuit ahead of stock market debut The company … Continue reading
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Tagged class-action lawsuit, Facebook, GM ads, Individual Privacy Offender, IPO, Martin Sorrell, Sneak ADtack, The Telegraph, WPP
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Facebook Has ADD (Advertising Deficit Disorder)
In the run-up to its ballyhooed IPO (Incredibly Publicized Offering), social media giant Facebook is getting DPNed (Defined Pretty Negatively) in terms of its advertising – read: revenue – potential. Once around the news media park, James, and don’t spare … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising Age, Boston Globe, Facebook, Forrester, IPO, Wall Street Journal, Without-a-Tracebook
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Reports Of Facebook’s Death Have Been, Like, Greatly Exaggerated
Begin with Simon Dumenco’s column in this week’s edition of Advertising Age: It’s Curtains for Google! And Facebook! And Tumblr! And … The tech-startup sky is falling! The tech-incumbent sky is falling! The entire tech sky is falling! No, seriously, I’m pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising Age, Boston Herald, Facebook, Facebook mobile, Faceluck, Forbes, Google, New York Times, Raakhee Mirchandani, Simon Dumenco, Social Outcast
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The Face(book) Of Online Privacy’s Future
The big Mark Zuckerberg takeout in New York magazine is getting lots of attention, but even more interesting is this sidebar, headlined “No, Facebook Has Not Already Peaked.” Nut graf: There’s a technology called OAuth. When you go to Spotify, or comment on … Continue reading
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Tagged Boy Billionaire, datasuck, Facebook, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, New York, OAuth, Spotify
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Consumers Union Goes Public Over Facebook’s Privacy Violations
Advertising Age reports that Consumers Union has run a full-page ad in Politico blasting Facebook’s privacy policy. Consumers Union Blasts Facebook in Full-Page Ad Consumers Union took out a full-page ad in Politico today bashing Facebook’s privacy policies–or lack thereof. While the … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising Age, Consumers Union, Facebook, go public, Hear Us Now, Politico, privacy policy
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So Is This The “Twitter Election” Or Not?
From our We Don’t Have a Clue desk: Lots of conflicting stories about social media’s influence on the 2012 presidential bakeoff. Consider these headlines collected by the hardworking staff in just in the past week. From Time’s Swampland blog: Campaign … Continue reading
Top Chef: You Gotta Try Boston!
Headline of full-page ad in Sunday’s Boston Globe: HELP BRING TOP CHEF TO BOSTON Obligatory button: The ad is the most visible part of a campaign launched by Digitas and Mayor Tom Menino to bring Season 10 of Bravo’s popular … Continue reading
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Tagged Bravo, Digitas, Facebook, Mick Darling's Posterous, Tom Menino, Top Chef, Twitter
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