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Disable Microsoft ads
Kim Komando
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June 6, 2025
Disable Microsoft ads: Windows loves promoting its own services. To turn it off, go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Windows permissions > General, and toggle off all five options. Then go to Settings > System > Notifications > Additional...
Amazon Thinks It’s Prime Time For Ads; Will Brands Tune In?
Inc42
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June 6, 2025
Everything and everyone around us, even remotely related to the internet, is evolving, and global tech giants are no exception. While Indian businesses have long replicated the strategies of international behemoths, the tables are turning. What...
Meta platforms showed "nudify" deepfake ads
CBS News
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A study found 6% of American teens have been targets of nude deepfake images that look like them. Some popular social media companies are hosting ads that show how to make these explicit fake images with the help of AI, a CBS News investigation...
AI company’s offputting ads declare ‘Stop Hiring Humans’
The Hazard Herald - Kentucky
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(Tony Kershaw via SWNS) By Jake Meeus-Jones Commuters fear losing their jobs after an artificial intelligence company launched "gross" billboards around London, encouraging companies to "stop hiring humans." Artisan, an AI startup founded in 2023,...
ARCON Launches Probe into 9mobile’s Alleged N1bn Advertising Debt, ADVAN Kicks
Business Hallmark
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June 6, 2025
The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has launched an investigation into telecoms operator 9mobile over an alleged N1 billion debt owed to advertising agencies, triggering a sharp reaction from the Advertisers Association of...
The real reason behind ‘Stop Hiring Humans’ ads appearing on the Tube
Metro
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June 6, 2025
The AI marketing campaign has reached London (Picture: Tony Kershaw/SWNS) Staring mindlessly at adverts on the London Underground as your train whizzes from station to station is a common occurrence for commuters in the capital. But a new...
Trump’s Campaign Firm Is Cashing In on the Admin’s Ads Praising Him
Rolling Stone
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June 6, 2025
Donald Trump’s top campaign firm has quietly handled the administration’s television advertisements thanking the president for closing the border and locking up criminals, according to a Rolling Stone review. Strategic Media Services Inc. does not...
Meta platforms showed hundreds of "nudify" deepfake ads, CBS News finds
CBS News
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Meta has removed a number of ads promoting "nudify" apps — AI tools used to create sexually explicit deepfakes using images of real people — after a CBS News investigation found hundreds of such advertisements on its platforms. "We have strict...
Nissan Leads Ranking of Most-Seen Non-Luxury Auto TV Ads
Wardsauto
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June 6, 2025
Automakers continue to harness NBA playoff action to reach wide, engaged audiences: Four of the top five non-luxury auto ads, as ranked by iSpot’s national TV ad impressions, activated around the conference finals during the week of May 26....
Travel & tourism industry records 28% spike in advertising spend
ETTravelWorld.com
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June 6, 2025
India’s travel and tourism industry recorded a 28 per cent year-on-year increase in advertising spend in 2024, according to a new report released by ad-tech agency Excellent Publicity. Based on analysis of over 30,000 campaigns and TAM Media...
10 Questions on Advertising... with AA group marketing director Will Harrison
The Drum
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He’s wrangled Keith Lemon in Miami and Lewis Capaldi in Glasgow, taken on a top marketing role at the height of lockdown, and sat through more ‘big idea’ decks than he cares to remember. Now The AA’s Will Harrison faces his toughest assignment...
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Movement, The Great Decoupling, Explicit Ranking Algorithm, Indexing Drop & AI, Lens, Ads & More
Search Engine Roundtable
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June 6, 2025
This week we covered the ongoing Google search ranking volatility that spiked on June 4th. Have you heard of the Great Decoupling? Did Google start indexing less in late May? Google updated its ranking algorithm around explicit content and videos,...
Heineken uses hard numbers to foster better representation in social media ads
Digiday
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June 6, 2025
DEI might not dominate boardroom agendas like it once did, but for marketers it remains essential. After all, growth doesn’t come from ignoring the audiences who make it possible.That’s why Heineken’s marketers are digging into research from...
AMC Theatres To Run More Commercials Before Movies
Movie Web
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June 6, 2025
The narrative regarding the theatrical experience and its struggle to survive has become less prevalent in recent years, thanks to unique marketing campaigns, longer theatrical windows for films, and premium formats helping to keep audiences...
Meta’s Oversight Board Slams Slow Moderation of Deepfake Celebrity Ads on Platform
Digital Information World
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June 6, 2025
Meta has come under fresh scrutiny after its independent Oversight Board raised serious concerns about the company’s slow and uneven response to a growing wave of deepfake scams featuring celebrity impersonations. These fraudulent ads, many of...
Digital advertising boards approved for busy Ayr street
Ayr Advertiser
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Network Rail previously applied to South Ayrshire Council for permission to erect the signs at the corner of Station Road and Mill Street. There are currently three static 48-sheet advertising hoardings on the site, adjacent to the railway line....
Video: Shreya Ghoshal on her struggle to stop celeb-bait ads on X
MediaNama
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June 6, 2025
“How is this allowed on a platform that is so important today? Why does it not moderate these posts? Why does it lack a team or technology to prevent this?” renowned singer Shreya Ghoshal asked, commenting on fake advertisements being run on X...
Meta's AI advertising takeover: Will it reshape APAC’s diverse ad ecosystem?
Campaign Asia-Pacific
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June 6, 2025
Let’s not kid ourselves: this isn’t democratisation, it’s centralisation. Meta’s AI might lower the barrier to entry, but it also tightens the grip. When one platform writes your ad, places it, and marks its own homework, we’re not simplifying, we...
Seedtag unveils agentic AI for divining user interest, emotion, and intent in “neuro-contextual advertising”
NewscastStudio - Missouri
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June 5, 2025
Seedtag unveiled an evolution in marketing: neuro-contextual advertising. Built on the combination of artificial intelligence and neuroscience principles, Seedtag’s AI, Liz, now interprets deeper signals like interest, emotion, and intent — and...
Advertising and Public Relations firms
The Business Journals
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June 5, 2025
Information on The List was supplied by individual companies through questionnaires and could not be independently verified by Albuquerque Business First. Only those that responded to our inquiries were listed. In case of ties, companies are...