About this Episode Episode 68 of Voices in AI features host Byron Reese and Suju Rajan discuss differences in machine and human…
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Tech Goes Emo
There’s a soul-crushing moment in The Iron Giant when [spoiler alert] the alien robot chooses to save humans from an atomic bomb.…
Read MoreAd Blocking and Tackling: What 2015’s Ad Blocking Means for 2016’s Marketing
2015 was the year when an unprecedented number of users took action against the ads that slowed web pages and turned the…
Read MorePeople-based marketing is key to humanizing the consumer experience
Tim is CEO at DataSift. Cookies were once the kings of the advertising industry, but times are changing. Once upon a time…
Read MoreTV ads increase app installs by 74%, report says
A new report has found that television commercials are great at convincing people to download mobile apps — provided they show at the…
Read MoreGoodblock, the ad-blocker for good samaritans, enters beta
There was a time when ad-blockers did what they said on the metaphorical tin: Stop advertisements from appearing while their users browse…
Read MoreFacebook and Apple hit snags with news publishing strategies
It’s hard enough to produce the news, but making money from it is an entirely different challenge — one that many of…
Read MoreThe not-so-distant future of mobile and video
Galia is COO and head of sales for Taptica. The mobile video advertising ecosystem is headed toward a major eruption. By the end…
Read MoreAdReplacer switches ‘obnoxious ads’ with human-curated links
Although most ad blocking tools primarily focus on hiding advertisements from websites you navigate to, that’s not all they’re capable of. Earlier…
Read MoreAOL says two-thirds of its audience now comes from mobile
Media and advertising giant AOL is now seeing most of its audience — about two-thirds — coming from mobile devices, the company has…
Read MoreIf you want millennial TV viewers, it’s interact or bust
Zane is CEO and cofounder of Watchwith. It’s pretty much taken as gospel these days that millennials are cord-cutters, eager to abandon…
Read MoreWhy ‘ad-free’ YouTube Red will actually be filled with ads
Zach is a media analyst at Fabric Media. YouTube Red, Google’s $10 per month ad-free subscription tier, has finally arrived. And when…
Read MoreMobile video ads are poised to explode—So what’s holding it back?
Josh is chief executive officer at AerServ. Video has always been one of advertisers’ most powerful engagement tools. And as digital video…
Read MoreFacebook beefs up its video platform to take on YouTube
Facebook wants people to watch more videos on its platform, even if those videos aren’t discovered within your news feed. In other…
Read MoreReddit’s Upvoted is about humanizing the community, not (just) ads
There’s a ton of discussion being had about Reddit’s recent launch of Upvoted, the company’s new news site focused on adding more to…
Read MoreAdBlock Plus’ list of acceptable ads to be run by independent board
Eyeo has been accused of extorting large companies in exchange for placement on a list of advertisers whose promotions aren’t hidden from…
Read MoreWatchwith aims to help TV advertising evolve for the digital era
Say what you will about commercials, but TV video ads managed to generate upwards of $173 billion last year. The problem is, there are…
Read MoreWith Peace’s removal, Ghostery leaves some unanswered questions
Peace had a good run — in the rock ‘n’ roll “live fast die young” sense, anyway. The ad-blocking app received a lot…
Read MoreTop iOS ad blocker ‘Peace’ gets yanked from the App Store
While the debate over the ethics of ad blocking tools rages on, the developer of Apple’s top mobile ad blocker app has decided to…
Read MoreSafari’s content blockers: Good for privacy, bad for publishers
You’ve probably heard that Apple’s new content blocking tools will lead to the slaughter of countless publications, to Tim Cook walking through…
Read MoreAd blocking is not enough: 3 challenges Apple will face in pushing iAd
Gilad is the founder and CEO of Moburst. Back in 2010 when Apple first launched its advertising platform, the company made the…
Read MoreGoogle’s ad penalties are more significant than Apple’s ad blocker
“Highly unlikely” would probably be how you’d have responded a year ago to someone telling you two of the largest tech companies in…
Read MoreHulu subscribers can now go commercial-free
Streaming video service Hulu will start offering subscribers an option to eliminate advertising during programs, the company announced today. The move is significant because Hulu…
Read MoreHow cord cutting is changing the nature of audience reach
Frank is CEO of Beachfront Media. In the emerging multi-platform era, reaching an audience is no longer merely as simple as waiting for…
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