Digital Marketing

“The FTC alleged the company charged customers for Uber One, a service for fee-free delivery, without their consent,” according to CNN Business.

Trust is everything. And nothing. Even brands and institutions that are deeply mistrusted can still succeed. Which is precisely the way of the world these days. Everything is mistrusted, yet everything still works, at least well enough.

“Through hidden scripts and trackers, Roblox intercepts the contents of users’ communications with its platform and shares them with third parties for analytics and advertising, without users’ knowledge or consent,” parents of a Roblox user allege in a class-action complaint.

Google shook the ad industry harder this week to see what it would take for it to come apart during a very challenging time as the company attempts to change its platforms and fend off DOJ remedies in search and publishing.

Nielsen Tuesday touted WBD as having the largest monthly viewing increase of any company. The truth is, WBD’s TV usage fell 17.3% on a year-over-year basis. So did most of others.

Pinterest is testing a new prompt designed to remind students that “Focus is a beautiful thing” and to “Stay in the moment by putting Pinterest down and pausing notifs [sic] until the school bell rings.”

A judicial endorsement of Trump’s ouster of FTC members “could seriously harm monetary and financial stability by signaling to markets that the independence of the Federal Reserve System is jeopardized,” professors warn in a friend-of-the-court brief.

Google has reversed a decision on its plan to phase out third-party cookies and said it will continue to improve tracking protections for users in Chrome’s Incognito mode, which already blocks third-party cookies by default.

It’s been about 30 years since the birth of the modern optimizer, and based on new data from WPP’s CMI Group, it may be time to embrace “orchestration” instead.

The company lost ground last year but says it will return to positive territory in 2025 with more than 2% organic revenue growth.