Digital Marketing

TikTok advertisers will soon need a verified TikTok profile to run ads in the app. TikTok is in the process of eliminating its Custom Identity option, which allows advertisers to place ads without linking to an official account.

Something’s got to give – as seen with Versant Media Group, the spinoff company of Comcast Corp., on the first day trading as a public company. It closed down 13% to $40.57.

PayPal has tapped in its customer data to help merchants target their ads. The new service, Transaction Graph Insights, will provide brands with a cross-platform view of purchase behavior, not just clicks and impressions, Finextra writes.

Google has added data transmission controls to its Google Tag settings without formally announcing it. Advertisers can now independently manage advertising data collection, behavioral analytics tracking and diagnostic data transmission based on user preferences, PPC Land reports.   

Following its acquisition of tvScientific earlier this month, Pinterest has announced a creator-focused CTV series via the Roku TV streaming company.

The decision follows a strike and continuing business problems.

“In general, businesses with subscription models have shown little interest in making cancellation processes easy for consumers,” said groups including the Electronic Privacy Information Center and National Consumer Law Center to the FTC.

xAI announced that it has exceeded its initial targeted round size, securing $20 billion in an effort to launch new consumer and enterprise products, build data centers and advance Grok 5, its newest AI model.

Uber Advertising announced an interactive advertising format combining branded map displays with destination-specific creative that runs the consumer’s entire ride.

The FTC is asking an appellate court to lift an injunction blocking the agency’s investigation of the watchdog Media Matters, which in late 2023 issued a report about neo-Nazi content on X.