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Facebook | September 24, 2020

The long-standing rule had been shifted to less stringent over the years, with this week marking their complete abandonment of the 20% text rule. Media buyers in Facebook’s platform began to notice recently a big change: their images were no longer being disapproved for a lot of text. When the Change Was Noticed. It’s been confirmed via a few sources the long-standing rule for Facebook Ad images being no more than 20% text has been sunset. Buyers started receiving direct communicatio...

Google | February 21, 2020

On Thursday Google confirmed it has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Google Play Store and banned them from its ad services for violating its policies on disruptive advertising and interstitials. "We define disruptive ads as ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of device functions," said Per Bjorke, senior product manager for ad traffic quality in a blog post. "While they can occur in-app, one form of dis...

borneobulletin | January 13, 2020

Two powerful Maryland politicians want that ad chasing you around the Internet to pay the state for the privilege of collecting your data. Maryland’s current and former Senate presidents have proposed a novel way to pioneer taxes on targetted digital advertising, a plan they estimate could deliver more than USD100 million per year to help pay for a sweeping education overhaul. In what appears to be first-in-the-nation legislation, social media companies such as Facebook and Google would fa...

Ad Tech and Martech

Tomi.ai | June 24, 2021

Real estate, automobile, and financial services all have lengthy and offline sales cycles, and digital advertising does not work well in these industries. Because the real-world assets remain offline, the temptation for advertisers is to buy leads and clicks, which may increase customer acquisition costs. People browse, but they mainly purchase offline. Tomi, a new startup, intends to solve this problem by analyzing a user's activity on a company's website (through a track...