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2012: Another Year of Digital Breakthroughs?
ADOTAS - Over the last two weeks, I’ve been reviewing the predictions Fjord made at the onset of 2011 (see Part 1 and Part 2 of that review), and now, as we wrap up the first week of 2012, it seems appropriate to look forward to what can be expected [...] more...
Quick Hits: Carrier IQ Skirts Privacy Controversy, An Infographic on Going Viral, The Value of Counting Clicks
ADOTAS - Carrier IQ, the company that monitors mobile data — and it’s controversial just how personal that data might be — on over 100 million mobile devices worldwide was in hot water over reports that circulated yesterday suggesting it was turning over users’ data to the FBI (information from Carrier [...] more...
Quick Hits: AdBlock Blocks Fewer Ads, Amazon Aces a Test of the Cloud
ADOTAS – AdBlock Plus developer Wladimir Palant announced last week the popular ad-blocking plugin is going to begin blocking fewer ads — at least in its default settings. AdBlock Plus 2.0 allows for “non-intrusive” ads — that is, ads that are static (preferably text-only) and, as such, have no audio or [...] more...
AdTruth Holds On To Customer Trust
ADOTAS – Our “online world” is changing at an exponential rate, each minute of every day and right beneath our fingertips. Devices used every day to access the Internet or to develop and store data are no longer just impersonal fixtures on a desk in an office building, university or [...] more...
Quick Hits: Facebook Settles with the FTC, Cyber Monday vs. Other Mondays
ADOTAS – Facebook has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it shared data from its users after telling users said data would remain private. The FTC brought up eight counts, some of which are actually a few years old at this point. Some of the charges held the social network [...] more...
SIGTARP Investigating Yahoo and Microsoft as Well
ADOTAS – Consumer Watchdog is saying today that executives of leading internet companies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be facing criminal charges for their roles in allowing mortgage modification ad scammers to advertise on their sites. The office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), who, [...] more...
BrightTag Allows You To Opt-Out Of Your Behavior
ADOTAS – BrightTag, a platform provider for digital marketing, has announced the general availability of BrightTag ONE-Click Preview, a new feature for brand marketers and website owners using the BrightTag ONE™ server-direct integration platform for data collection and distribution. This feature enables marketers and website owners to provide effective privacy regulations [...] more...
Quick Hits: Foursquare Revamped and Other Social Media News
• The “New Foursquare” went live this afternoon. With interactive maps, a comments section, recommended spots suited to the time of day and suggestions of brands to follow, the re-imagined Foursquare is more conducive to viewing on a tablet or a home computer — and it’s also more in line [...] more...
Using Tag Management for Do-Not-Track
ADOTAS – Tag management systems have plenty of advantages: they reduce the need for IT resources, speed up page loading time, and improve overall site performance. There’s another, equally critical advantage baked into some (but not all, it must be mentioned) tag management systems. They can help marketers, site owners, [...] more...
Suit Filed Against KISSmetrics and Pubs Over ETag Tracking
ADOTAS – History repeats itself — back in summer 2009 when privacy researcher Ashkan Soltani and friends put out a damning report about online tracking practices with Adobe Flash cookies (aka local shared objects) that undermined user privacy controls through the use of respawning HTTP cookies, class action lawsuits were [...] more...
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- Infographic: HootSuite Analyses Social Media Impact of Super Bowl Ads February 7th 2012 ADOTAS - So, it’s the Tuesday after the Super Bowl, [...] more »
- Facebook to Serve Mobile Ads in Coming Weeks February 6th 2012 ADOTAS – According to a Financial Times report, Facebook will [...] more »
- Survey: 39 Percent of Mobile Users Responded to Super Bowl Ads Via Mobile February 6th 2012 ADOTAS - During the Super Bowl yesterday, mobile ad network [...] more »
- Sponsormob Leads the Way Into RTB for Mobile February 3rd 2012 ADOTAS – For more than half a decade, Berlin-based tech [...] more »
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- This Week’s New Hires February 3rd 2012 ADOTAS – Another week, another round of new gigs. Here [...] more »
- Two Surveys: What Are We Doing with Mobile Devices During the Super Bowl? February 2nd 2012 ADOTAS - With the Super Bowl fast approaching and the [...] more »
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Sponsormob Leads the Way Into RTB for MobileADOTAS – For more than half a decade, Berlin-based tech firm Sponsormob has remained relevant in an industry characterized by [...] more...
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