The Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division has referred Kalshi to regulatory authorities after the prediction market platform declined to participate in a review of its influencer advertising practices. According to a statement published by the BBB’s National Advertising Division…
Youth marketing firm SuperAwesome has been appointed Roblox's commercial and technology partner for "under-13 contextual advertising."
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U.S. House Democrats urge FTC to probe prediction markets over ads that frame event contracts as sports betting despite financial-product claims.
Don Marti has a rule of thumb: when Meta, Google, and Apple all line up behind a new "privacy" feature, someone should ask who actually benefits. In a post about the browser ad-measurement standard called Attribution Level 1, he argues the answer is Big Tech. — Read the rest
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Jannik Sinner’s pursuit of a career Grand Slam was thwarted Thursday morning by his poor showing at the French Open, and while tennis fans were already ruing the impossibility of a reprise of last year’s epic men’s final, the departure of the worldwide No. 1 may prove to be an even tougher pill for TNT […]
Elon Musk, business genius. When Elon Musk announced his plans to buy Twitter, some of his billionaire friends rushed to text him to say they’d throw whatever money they wanted into the deal. Larry Ellison casually offered “a billion… or whatever you recommend.” Marc Andreessen offered $250 million, no questions asked. This all came out […]
About a hundred motorized rickshaws in the crowded streets of India’s capital, New Delhi, are sporting banners with President Donald Trump’s face, an American flag, and the message “Happy Birthday America! 250 Years Old.”
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A judged ruled that Kars4Kids ads are banned in California, believing that the charity violated false advertising and unfair competition laws by using donations to pay for teenagers' trips to Israel and a $16.5 million building in the country.
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Because privacy’s not always guaranteed to last forever. On Friday, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messaging ended, with messages becoming visible by Meta, Instagram’s parent company. The firm can now view what’s in messages shared between users on Instagram, and that information can be shared with law enforcement agencies worldwide. The feature had been an […]
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All 20 of America's state-run healthcare marketplace sites "include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies," reports Gizmodo, citing a report from Bloomberg: Per the report, seven million Americans bought their health insurance through state exchanges in 2026, and many of them may have had personal information shared with companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap,…
Every MLB ballpark is different, and so are their backstops behind home plate. But one element is increasingly common around the league: ads. Some teams have installed video boards or single, wraparound panels behind the dish. Others have opted to place banners in the stands or sponsor emblems on seatbacks. Visiting broadcasters now regularly virtually […]
Crypto-backed Republican James Baird won Indiana’s primary after $514K in PAC support, as Fairshake expands its 2026 election push.
Erik Reppel said at Consensus Miami 2026 that AI agents bypass internet ads entirely, threatening the web’s core business model and pointing to x402 stablecoin micropayments as the structural replacement. Coinbase Developer Platform head and x402 founder Erik Reppel took…
In a perfect world, the NFL will release its 2026-27 schedule on or before May 11, when NBCUniversal and Fox are set to present their fall TV slates to advertisers and media buyers during their upfront presentations in New York. But as the world never tires of reminding us, nothing about it can be characterized […]
There is a certain kind of discomfort that comes from flipping through old magazines from the 1960s and 1970s. Not because they feel foreign, but because they don’t, entirely. The clothes changed. The hairstyles changed. The alcohol ads, though, reveal something rawer about that era than almost anything else on the page. They were weird […]
For the first time since inking a five-year pact (2024-28) to sublicense a slate of College Football Playoff games from ESPN, TNT Sports has been given the green light to sell the advertising inventory in and around those telecasts, according to a source involved with the deal. During the first two years of the arrangement, […]
An even more convenient way to get ice cream. Whenever someone from overseas raves about Japanese convenience stores, they’re usually talking about the big three – 7-Eleven, Family Mart, and Lawson. ▼ However, there’s another well-known chain that’s often overlooked: Ministop. Despite being well-known, Ministop reported a net loss of 5.6 billion yen (US$35 million) […]
Fresh off its production of an NCAA men’s basketball championship game that posted a seven-year ratings high, TNT Sports is gearing up for another run of outsized springtime sports deliveries with its coverage of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Basking in the glow of Team USA’s gold medal halo effect, the NHL’s annual two-month stretch of […]
The delivery drivers know the economy as well as just about anyone.
The post UPS driver has a blunt take on America’s economy after delivering Christmas packages appeared first on Upworthy.
Three of the world's largest advertising companies have settled with the FTC over claims they colluded on policies to combat alleged misinformation that denied advertising revenue to conservative publishers such as Breitbart News.
The post Big Advertisers Settle Case with FTC over Leftist Censorship in Advertising and Suspected Collusion Against Breitbart, Other Conservatives appeared first on…
Upon first viewing of Stella Artois’ new World Cup ad, it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine marketing execs at Fox Sports and Telemundo engaging in the sort of untethered high-fiving that can lead to the tearing of the odd rotator cuff. Featuring “global brand ambassador” David Beckham, the Anheuser-Busch hero spot goes […]
Discover Amstel's 'Shot Without Permission' campaign, celebrating genuine moments and friendships in a performative culture.
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Amstel hired Spanish photographer Javier Tles for a very unusual type of advertising campaign for Heineken beer. Rather than set up a staged photoshoot, as is par for the course, Tles covertly captured photos of real people enjoying drinks with their actual friends, approaching the ad campaign more like a documentary photography project than a commercial project. It is a very different type of…
Meta has started removing ads from law firms seeking clients for social media addiction lawsuits, just weeks after a jury found Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark case involving harm to a young user. "Lawyers across the country now are seeking new plaintiffs, in the hopes of bringing a class action lawsuit that could result in lucrative verdicts," reports Axios. From the report: Axios has…
When Sara Van Horn's grandfather Jerry opened the Cattle Baron steakhouse on West 46th Street in Manhattan in 1967, his ads featured a nude woman posed in a cowboy hat, her body mapped in labeled butcher's cuts from shoulder to heel. — Read the rest
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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Frappuccino lovers, rejoice: Your plastic to-go cups are now “widely recyclable.” That’s according to an announcement made in February by Starbucks, the waste hauler WM (formerly known as Waste Management), and three recycling groups called The Recycling Partnership, GreenBlue, and Closed […]
Microsoft Copilot is reportedly injecting promotional "tips" into GitHub pull requests, with Neowin claiming more than 1.5 million PRs have been affected by messages advertising integrations like Raycast, Slack, Teams, and various IDEs. From the report: According to Melbourne-based software developer Zach Manson, a team member used the AI to fix a simple typo in a pull request. Copilot did the…
Unity has announced that it is shutting down its IronSource advertising/user-acquisition network and planning to divest Supersonic, publisher of mobile games including Bridge Race, Going Balls and Build A Queen. The firm said the process would "simplify the business" and enable it to focus on higher growth segments, including its AI-powered ad network Vector. The news was included in the firm's…