Advertising Stories for 2022

Inspired by Amazon, Paid Promotions Spread to Other Online Shopping Sites in 2022 12
A Startup Wants To Pay You To Share Your Data For Advertising 47
Even the FBI Says You Should Use An Ad Blocker 87
Disney+ Launches Its Ad-Supported Tier To Compete With Netflix 34
FTC Probes 'Possible Misconduct' In Cryptocurrency Advertising 12
Influencers Were Paid By Google To Promote a Pixel Phone They Never Used 39
It's Not Your Imagination. Shopping on Amazon Has Gotten Worse 106
KFC Blames Semi-Automated Bot for Insensitive App Alert on Kristallnacht 129
Google Ad For GIMP.org Served Info-Stealing Malware Via Lookalike 19
'How Google's Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World' 206
Meta's New Headset Will Track Your Eyes for Targeted Ads 53
Space Billboards Could Cost $65 Million and Still Turn a Profit 118
Meta To Increase Ad Load On Instagram 56
Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads 17
The $300B Google-Meta Advertising Duopoly is Under Attack 34
Facebook 'Repeatedly and Intentionally' Violated Washington's Political Ad Law, Judge Rules 49
Snap's Chief Business Officer Is Leaving To Run Ads On Netflix 17
Privacy Complaint Targets Google Over Unsolicited Ad Emails 20
Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone 120
Visa, Mastercard Suspend Payment For Ad Purchases On PornHub and MindGeek 90
Companies are Subtly Tricking Users Online with 'Dark Patterns' 46
An Ad Company Is Teaming Up With US Carriers To Take Over Your Lock Screen 126
Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company To Harvest User Data For Months 6
T-Mobile Has Started Selling Your App Data To Advertisers 30
Netflix Confirms Plans For Ad-Supported Service, Begins Second Round of Layoffs 78
German Regulators Open Investigation Into Apple's App Tracking Transparency 24
Vodafone Plans Carrier-Level User Tracking For Targeted Ads 44
Remote Learning Apps Tracked Millions of US Children During Pandemic 44
Google Messages RCS Is Being Abused For Ads In India 11
The US Army's Unsettling New Recruitment Video for Psychological Warfare 189
Lawmakers Offer Bill To Regulate Volume of Commercials On Streaming Services 103
TikTok Plans To Share Ad Revenue With Creators For the First Time 10
Twitter Admits To Risk of Losing Advertisers, Staff Due To Musk Takeover 214
Researchers Find Amazon Uses Alexa Voice Data To Target You With Ads 36
Netflix Rocked By Subscriber Loss, May Offer Cheaper Ad-Supported Plans 181
Microsoft Is Building An Ad Program That Will Let Brands Advertise In Xbox Games 19
TikTok's Ad Revenue To Surpass Twitter, Snapchat Combined In 2022 17
Chrome's 'Topics' Advertising System Is Here, Whether You Want It Or Not 86
False Advertising To Call Software Open Source When It's Not, Says Court 20
Has Apple's 'Pro' Branding Lost All Meaning? 84
Shoppers React as Grocers Replace Freezer Doors with Screens Playing Ads 379
Facebook and YouTube Block RT, Other Russian Channels From Earning Ad Dollars 65
Zuckerberg's Facebook Burns $500 Billion Becoming 'Meta'. Are They In Trouble? 169
Google to Overhaul Ad-Tracking on Android Phones Used by Billions 22
Wordle Is Watching You 69
Coinbase Swears This All Isn't Like the Dotcom Bubble After Super Bowl Ad SNAFU 81
EV Start-up Polestar Takes Shots At Tesla, Musk and Volkswagen In Super Bowl Ad 55
This Year's Super Bowl Broadcast May Seem 'Crypto-Happy'. But the NFL Isn't 65
Mozilla and Meta (Formerly Facebook) Propose New Privacy-Preserving Ad Technology 120
Meta Threatens To Pull Facebook and Instagram From Europe If It Can't Target Ads 252
What Would Happens To Meta and Google If Privacy Invasion Were Criminalized? 101
Six Reasons Meta (Formerly Facebook) is In Trouble 117
How Apple's Privacy Push Cost Meta $10 Billion 78
Regulators Find Europe's Ad-Tech Industry Acted Unlawfully 17
Why Is Matt Damon Shilling For Crypto? 108
KDE-Powering Qt's New Framework Lets Developers Bring Ads Into Their Apps 96
Some Roku Smart TVs Are Now Showing Banner Ads Over Live TV 57
Zuckerberg and Pichai Allegedly Signed Off On Illegal Facebook-Google Ad Deal 23