Advertising Stories for 2023

Google Might Already Be Replacing Some Ad Sales Jobs With AI 22
Apple and Amazon Release Warm, Fuzzy Holiday Ads - Both With Beatles-Related Songs 23
Meta Knowingly Collected Data on Pre-Teens, Unredacted Evidence From Lawsuit Shows 56
After Luring Customers With Low Prices, Amazon Stuffs Fire TVs With Ads 81
YouTube Crackdown Leads To 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Ad Blocker Uninstalls 208
When Matthew Perry Met Windows 95 60
Tens of Millions Now Work in the $250B 'Creator Economy' 95
When Supermarket Freezer Doors Have Screens With Ads 99
'Pause Ads' Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max As Streamers Seek New Revenue 53
20 Carriers Face Call-Blocking in the US for Submitting Fake 'Robocall Mitigation Plans' 67
Comcast Resists Call To Stop Its Misleading '10G Network' Claims 39
Facebook's Sexist, Ageist Ad-Targeting Violates California Law, Court Finds 71
Google Made Billions With Secret Change to Ad-Auction Algorithm, Witness Testifies 46
H&R Block, Meta, and Google Slapped With RICO Suit, Allegedly Schemed to Scrape Taxpayer Data 31
Norway Wants Facebook Behavioral Advertising Banned Across Europe 8
Bing Chat Responses Infiltrated By Ads Pushing Malware 14
Reddit Is Removing Ability To Opt Out of Ad Personalization Based On Your Activity 54
FTC Judge Decides Intuit's 'Free' TurboTax Ads Did Mislead Consumers 30
Are We Seeing the End of the Googleverse? 133
YouTube Ads May Have Led To Online Tracking of Children, Research Says 8
Walmart Is Bringing Digital Ads To An Aisle Near You 46
FTX's Celebrity Endorser Tom Brady Faces Worthless Stock, Lawsuits 83
YouTube Could Be Testing a Three-Strikes Policy For Ad Blocking 205
Australia Urged To Ban Online Gambling Ads To Curb Growing Addiction 29
Reddit Fight 'Enters News Phase', as Moderators Vow to Pressure Advertisers, CNN Reports 158
Video Ads Are Coming To All Your Uber Apps 57
Twitch Walks Back Controversial Ad Rules Policy 44
Amazon Prime Video Is Reportedly Planning An Ad-Supported Tier 27
Gambling Firm Allegedly Paid Blogs To Link New Members To Its Online Games 12
America's FTC Warns Businesses Not to Use AI to Harm Consumers 26
What Happens When AI Tries to Generate a Pizza Commercial? 61
Gmail Is Starting To Show Ads In the Middle of the Inbox 65
Facebook Advertisers Angry About Major Glitch That Temporarily Spiked Prices 45
Tax-Filing Sites Ask to Blab Your Financial Info to 'Business Partners' 34
Meta Wants EU Users To Apply For Permission To Opt Out of Data Collection 27
Microsoft Slips Ads Into AI-Powered Bing Chat 56
Google Launches Ads Transparency Center As a Searchable Database 7
Is Amazon Building a New AI-Powered Web Browser? 31
Vivaldi Co-Founder: Advertisers 'Stole the Internet From Us' 56
What Can't You Say on YouTube? Its Content Creators Aren't Sure 122
Meta Announces Paid Subscriptions Offering Extra Verification, Promotion, Protection, Support 98
Microsoft Proposes AI Ads In Bing 23
Super Bowl Ads Feature 'Mario Rap', Pixel Phone, Two Batmen, and Warnings of 'Premature Electrification' 75
No Cryptocurrency Super Bowl Ads Have Been Purchased This Year 20
How to Handle Web Sites Asking for Your Email Address 117
70% of Drugs Advertised On TV Are of 'Low Therapeutic Value,' Study Finds 107
France Fines Apple for Illegally Harvesting iPhone Owners' Data for Ads 15

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