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Mike’s Rant – Is YouTube Killing The Platform With Adverts?
Is YouTube Killing Themselves With Adverts? It’s been more than a little while since I had a chance for a good rant. Then again, I feel I’ve had very little to grumble about recently which is certainly a little unusual. Perhaps I’ve been a bit too busy… Like many of…
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Facebook Has Said It Will Not Remove Fake News
Facebook Has Said It Will Not Remove Fake News In the last year, Fake News has been a major part of criticism against social media. We have regularly been told that social media sites will improve to try and raise the quality of content they promote and crack down on…
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Facebook Hire 1000 New Staff to Police Advertising
Better late than never! It’s been a very topsy-turvy year for Facebook in terms of news and public relations. Generally speaking, however, the social media site has found itself under criticism for a number of reasons. One of the most recent was the revelation that the US Senate was likely…
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Microsoft Slips OneDrive Advertisements into Windows 10 File Explorer
Starting with Windows 10, Microsoft introduced their new support paradigm of continuous updates. Instead of getting only a service pack or two, Windows would now get updates to futures on a rolling ongoing basis. So far, there have been a mix of useful features but also many updates that have…
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Tracking Users Via Wi-Fi Without Permission? Get Fined!
When it comes to advertising these days, putting something in the newspaper doesn’t seem to quite cut it anymore. Companies will do anything from tracking your online activity to forcing you to fill out surveys before letting you use their sites, but one company decided to go further. InMobi decided…
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Mozilla to Remove Ads From Firefox (Eventually)
Over the last year, Mozilla has been experimenting with integrating ads into its popular browser, Firefox, in an attempt to integrate them into the tiles on new tab page (and presumably earn more revenue). But now, Mozilla’s VP of content services, Darren Herman has released a blog post revealing plans…
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GCHQ Could Be Fined For Latest Series Of Job Adverts
GCHQ are known for their presence within the UK as the cyber spies, the first and last defence against digital threats within the UK. In recent years though they have not had the best image, with incidents like being given permission to spy on politicians, recommending users store their passwords…
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Leading PC Vendors Launch Embarrassing Advertising Campaign
Apple has had a strong foothold on mainstream television for a considerable time due to a rigorous advertising campaign. The company showcases each product with stylish, slow-moving camera angles to evoke a “cool factor”. In the PC market, vendor sales are dwindling due to people building custom-PCs or simply upgrading…
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Get Ready for More Ads on Your Instagram Feed
It looks like Facebook wants more money out of its services and is now looking into monetizing Instagram. Though there were limited ads present on the service, a lot of marketers and investors were eyeing the service for a long time and with good reason too. The service now has…
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Vizio Makes Fun of Curved Screens in New Video Ad
Vizio is one of the US’ biggest TV manufacturer and they make some amazing screens, but it seems they don’t believe in the new curved screens. Not only are they not producing any TVs with the new “thing”, they are taking quite a poke at it with their latest advertising video.…
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iPhone 6 Plus Hammered by new Samsung Advertisements
[youtube width=”854″ height=”480″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxhSnNZH3Rk[/youtube] Samsung have come out of the blocks with both arms swinging – producing a series of advertisements targetting competitor Apple’s latest technology. Samsung has a long standing battle with Apple. Not only are they the main competitors on the telecommunications market, but Apple and Samsung have a…
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Buy My Barina – Well Made Ad for a 1999 Holden Barina
David Johns is presented with a problem – who wants to buy my crappy second-hand 1999 Holden Barina? Luckily for him, he’s the digital director for Chimney. What’s his solution? Make an amazing, factory production quality advertisement, set up a social hub (#buymybarina) and a witty accompanying website. Unfortunately for those interested in viewing…
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Maxthon Releases Windows PC Browser Designed for Faster Video Playback
Maxthon is a web browser for Windows, OS X and Linux, developed in China by the company Maxthon Ltd. Latest news point to the browser receiving an update aimed towards video playback, having features such as “AdSkipper” providing support for skipping through advertisements without slowing the video downloads. The company…
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Auto-Playing Facebook Video Ads Could Launch Thursday
According to a report on the Wall Street Journal, Facebook will begin the rollout of their auto-playing video advertisements on user timelines. This has of course been a long time coming and it was only a few months ago that Facebook delayed the launch as they wanted to find out…
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Face Scanning & Targets Ads To Be Served At Tesco
Supermarket petrol stations are nothing new here in the UK, many of which are unmanned drive through style stations where you just pop your credit card in before you use the pump. Adverts at the pump are nothing new, nor are cameras in petrol stations, but it is how they’ve…
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