Facebook Boasts That Ad Boycott Won't Make A Dent
Boycott, schmoycott. Despite over 1,000 major advertisers participating in a July advertising boycott over the way Facebook handles hateful content, the company said in its Q2 2020 earnings report that…
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Coronavirus Conspiracy Websites Won’t Be Able To Make Money With…
Google is giving the boot to websites that push coronavirus conspiracy theories using its ad platform. Starting Aug. 18, Google will no longer allow publishers that promote coronavirus conspiracies to…
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Google Bans Ads For Products That People Use To Stalk…
Google's newest ad ban is a classic "better late than never" situation. In its latest advertising policy update, Google announced that "stalkerware" apps will not be able to advertise through…
Read MoreCarnival Of Hypocrisy
"By 2017, American companies had put at least $2.6 trillion into offshore tax shelters...Nike had $12.2 billion.... The company estimates that if its $12.2 billion was repatriated to the U.S.,…
Read MorePuzzles and Mysteries
I was rummaging through old blog posts and came upon this one from almost 13 years ago. Since no one read my blog 13 years ago, and I liked this…
Read MoreA Seriously Imperfect Species
I wrote this a few days ago but didn't post it because I felt uncomfortable about posting non-positive things during this unpleasant period. However, after reading the great Mark Ritson's…
Read MoreBranding And Grandstanding
I sometimes listen to branding "experts" talk and wonder if they live on the same planet I do. I hear them say... Consumers want to “join the conversation” about brands.…
Read MoreSugar And Technology
For a good part of human history food didn't taste so good. That's why spices from the Far East were such treasured commodities in the West. In the seventeenth century…
Read MoreDecade Of Delusion
I like to think of my new book, Advertising For Skeptics, as an undiluted bounty of heretical, unpopular, and aberrant thoughts about our industry. It is now available at Amazon.…
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