Comcast's Peacock streaming service to offer free and $5- or $10-a-month options
Comcast Corp.-owned NBCUniversal's new Peacock service, its belated entry into the streaming video wars, will offer free and $5-per-month options with advertising, the company announced on Thursday. Customers who want to avoid all advertising can pay $10 per month, NBCUniversal said in a statement released ...
Facebook said on Monday it had removed some ads that contained misleading information about HIV prevention drugs following an outcry from activists, health experts and U.S. lawmakers. The ads linked the drugs, which are known as PrEP and designed to prevent HIV, to severe bone ...
Google and Facebook to start locally booking ad revenue in Japan
The move is apparently in response to recent international pressure over the tax-saving measures of technology giants.
Advertising giant Dentsu again found violating rules on overtime hours
Dentsu Inc. said Thursday it had again received a warning from labor authorities over illegal overtime practices. Two years after being convicted over working practices involving long hours, which had led to the suicide of an employee, the advertising giant was found to have violated ...
Google won't give election advertisers data on political leanings or voting records
Google will stop giving advertisers the ability to target election ads using data such as public voter records and general political affiliations, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. The move coincides with pressure on social media platforms over their handling of political ...
Google restricts data-sharing for ads under EU privacy pressure
Google said it would make changes to its advertising technology to better protect people's privacy following scrutiny by European Union watchdogs. Starting in February, Google will no longer divulge information to participants in its ad auction about the type of content on a website or ...
From tagging photos on Facebook to driving with Google Maps, people should join forces in "data unions" to demand payment for letting online tools collect their data, according to an economist advocating for radical reforms to improve society. Glen Weyl, a principal researcher at the ...
Advertising woes hit New York Times as digital subscriptions grow
The New York Times said Wednesday that profits slipped in the third quarter as declines in advertising revenues offset gains in its digital subscription efforts. The prestigious U.S. daily said it now has more than 4 million "digital only" subscribers and a total subscriber base ...
Sen. Mark Warner asks Facebook to be more transparent on political ads and ID financial backers
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner called on Facebook Inc. to provide more transparency over its decision to not fact-check ads run by politicians, asking whether it would comply with a new rule that requires online platforms to disclose the purchasers of ads. Facebook has been under ...
Facebook to stop news headline changes from advertisers after U.K. party tweaked BBC link
Facebook said Monday it is working to stop advertisers from changing headlines in links to news stories after concerns raised by a British political party's altering of one such link. The leading social network confirmed the internal effort in the face of concerns over a ...
YouTube 'creators' fret over financial impact of new child protection rules
Samuel Rader quit his job three years ago to work full time on his YouTube channel, "Sam and Nia," featuring videos of his family life. The channel created by the Texas-based couple — with videos of their Hawaii vacation, setting up their backyard pool and ...
Russia says Facebook and Google distributed political ads on election day
Russian state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said tech giants Google and Facebook had allowed political advertising during Sunday's regional elections despite being asked to ban such publicity. "Such actions can be seen as interference in Russia's sovereign affairs and hindering the conduct of democratic elections in ...
