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FTC’s Stealth-Ad Warning Not Strong Enough
This week the Federal Trade Commission addressed the blurring of the lines between advertising and editorial content on search engines. From MediaPost: Search engines are increasingly blurring the differences between paid ads and organic listings, the Federal Trade Commission said on … Continue reading
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Tagged AOL, APM, Bing, FTC, Google, Marketplace, Mary Engle, Mediaite, MediaPost, New York Times, search engines, Sneak ADtack, sponsored content, White House Down, Yahoo
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On Native Advertising, BuzzFeed Schools While Google Scolds
Here’s bad news for anyone who values the separation of advertising and editorial content. “Native advertising is going to be the only advertising. The question is only what people are going to put in those units.” Thus spake BuzzFeed’s Jon … Continue reading
For All You Know, Facebook Owns Your First-Born Child
The New York Times reports that “despite how much we say we value our privacy — and we do, again and again — we tend to act inconsistently,” which is the Times-nice way of saying stupidly. To half-wit: Letting Down Our Guard … Continue reading
Google’s Newest Search Results: Sponsored Content
From our State-of-the-Cuisinart Marketing desk The Googletron will not be pwned! From Search Engine Land: As News Publications Experiment With Sponsored Content, Google Says Keep It Out Of Google News News publications having “sponsored content “deals are on the rise, and Google’s apparently … Continue reading
Contest-Generated Ad Goes Full Circle At NYT
When is a print ad both a story and an advertisement? When the New York Times makes it so! From Wednesday’s Times Business section: On Print’s Turf, Google Wins for Creativity THE winner of a contest to encourage creativity in … Continue reading
Data-Mining Kids: Internet Players Are Agile, Mobile, And Hostile
That’s what legendary Texas Longhorns coach Darrell Royal said he wanted hisplayers to be – except he pronounced it a-gile, mo-bile, and hos-tile. But that’s what the Federal Trade Commission does not want current kids’ app developers to be in tracking them on tablets and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Apple, FTC, Google, lobby, mobile apps, PBS NewsHour, Sneak ADtack, tracking, Waldorf-Astoria, Wall Street Journal
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Name o’ the Day (Google Spokeswoman Edition)
From a Thursday New York Times piece about Google’s autocomplete feature, which anticipates what you’re searching for online. In a statement, Krisztina Radosavljevic-Szilagyi, a Google spokeswoman, wrote: “The search queries that you see as part of autocomplete are a reflection … Continue reading
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Tagged autocomplete, Google, Krisztina Radosavljevic-Szilagyi, New York Times, search results
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Judge: Google Can’t Pay Blogola Under The Table
It’s not the principle, it’s the principal. Read all about it at the spiffy new Sneak Adtack. (Thanks, Diana & Gabby!)
Marina Abramovic Blushathon (The Artist Is Present Edition)
The hardblushing staff has followed performance artist Marina Abramovic over the past few years, so we feel constrained to note the flurry of coverage for the new documentary The Artist Is Present. Representative sample, via the New Yorker. Representative image, via … Continue reading
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Tagged Blushathon, Google, Marina Abramovic, New Yorker, The Artist Is Present
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Dead Blogging Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s BU Commencement Address
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (Google search results here) delivered the 139th Commencement Address at Boston University yesterday, and it can be described in three words: predictable and pedestrian. Schmidt started out with a stumbling reference to a Saul Bellow … Continue reading
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