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Advertising Sales Representative Wanted
Are you a dynamic and motivated sales professional ready to make a significant impact in rural Nevada? Nevada Central Media is looking for an Advertising Sales Representative to represent our company and secure advertising reservations for two...

Prime Video ads reaching 22m UK viewers monthly
At the 2025 Amazon Upfront UK event, senior executives from Amazon Ads, Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios were joined on stage by celebrities and actors to showcase Amazon’s entertainment portfolio and highlight its advertising solutions. During...

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
Amazon Echo Show owners are reporting an uptick in advertisements on their smart displays. The company's Echo Show smart displays have previously shown ads through the company's Shopping Lists feature, as well as advertising for Alexa skills....

Instacart Integrates Retail Media Data With TikTok Ads Manager
Grocery technology company Instacart has announced a new integration that enables select TikTok consumer packaged goods (CPG) advertisers to use TikTok Ads Manager to tap into Instacart’s first-party retail media data. The advertisers can use this...

Netflix gets boost from analyst's bullish ads forecast
After downgrading Netflix from “buy” to “neutral” in July, Seaport Research Partners reversed course on the streaming company this week, increasing the its price target to $1,385 a share from $1,230, while restoring Netflix to “buy” status. “We...

ICE spends millions of tax dollars on ads to lure law enforcement officers to join deportation drive
“You took an oath to protect and serve, to keep your family, your city, safe,” the narrator says, as images of the cities targeted and ICE agents arresting people move across the screen. “But in sanctuary cities, you’re ordered to stand down while...

‘I have a meme for that’: Can this low-cost promotional tool replace traditional ads?
After the film 'Utshob' was released in June this year, various memes made using its scenes as templates started circulating on social media, such as, "You don't have to go abroad just because you got a 7 in IELTS, Jasmin," or "You don't have to...

New California law forces streaming services to turn down the volume on ads. Will it catch on nationwide?
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No more loud commercials: This state is limiting the volume of ads on streaming services like Hulu, Prime Video
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Gray News) – Do you hate when commercials are louder than the actual program you’re watching on streaming services? If you live in California, you’re in luck – those loud advertisements will soon be a thing of the past. On...

CEO Who Plastered AI Ads All Over Subway System Afraid to Talk to Real New Yorkers Face-to-Face
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images To the surprise of not a single soul, the backlash that Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann gleefully begged for on his million-dollar subway AI ad campaign has started to wear on him. In...

UK gives Google ‘strategic market status’ in search and search advertising
The U.K.’s competition watchdog has given Google LLC a new regulatory designation that could expose it to additional antitrust scrutiny. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, gave the company strategic market status in a notice published...

New EU rules on online political advertising come into force. And it is already a storm
Brussels – The EU aims at greater transparency on political advertisements, in an attempt to safeguard the quality of public debate and the integrity of electoral processes. But the cure may turn out to be worse than the disease, at least...

EU supervision of political advertising – compliance obligations for companies
Regulation (EU) 2024/900 may seem pretty technical but could cause quite a stir in the future. Since its publication in March 2024, the ‘Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising' has set new standards in the areas of...

Competitor Accuses Rival of "Greenwashing" When Advertising Its Products
Last month, an earplug maker sued a rival in federal district court in California, alleging that the competitor had engaged “[i]n a calculated ‘greenwashing’ scheme to capture market share from competitors . . . by falsely advertising its []...

10 Questions on Advertising... with Mark Himmelsbach, founder, Episode Four
He’s reimagined agency life, built an AI startup and still finds time to referee #PlannerBowl – Mark Himmelsbach proves that curiosity and culture are advertising’s best assets.Each year, many of the industry’s most esteemed strategists join Mark...

Tesla pushing Tron Ares ads in its cars
Disney has been marketing the hell out of the new Tron movie (Jared Leto be damned, I guess), and the latest attempt pushes an update into the cabin of Tesla vehicles. Essentially, this update applies a Tron Ares skin to the car’s built-in...
NAI publishes paper on PETs in digital advertising
The Network Advertising Initiative published a paper to help privacy professionals navigate privacy-enhancing technologies in digital advertising. The paper explains that PETs in digital advertising can improve data governance, limit exposure of...

New EU rules on political advertising come into effect
Have you ever run into a political advertisement in a newspaper or a webpage, without being aware that a political party or a foreign entity was behind it? This is just one example, in the age of information, we are increasingly faced with. From...

Amazon's Giant Ads Have Ruined the Echo Show
An anonymous reader shares a report: Last week, Amazon launched a major update of its line of Alexa-enabled Echo smart speakers and displays. The redesign -- led by former Microsoft design chief Ralf Groene, whom Amazon Devices & Services head...

Austria-based privacy group Noyb said Microsoft 365 Education installed cookies that collect browser data and are used for advertising purposes