During a year of persistent inflation and economic woes, ad-supported streaming is showing its potential. Over half of respondents to Hub’s survey said they would be willing to consume ads to save a few dollars, a level of interest that has seen little fluctuation this year. Streaming platforms have increasingly taken to ad-supported business models […]
CLEAR, the secure identity company has announced its collaboration with Microsoft for the rollout of Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory (AD) verifiable credentials – a digital identity solution that enables users to confirm information about themselves with organisations while limiting what is shared. As CLEAR continues to expand its digital identity platform, this future integration will […]
For many years now, social media influencers and online content creators have been somewhat forced to disclose whether the posts they are sharing are in fact a paid-for advertorial or not. Just as we see on television and in magazines, it is clear what is an ad, and what is not – so why should […]
YouTube continues to grow at a torrid pace, with any sign of pandemic slowdown seemingly behind it. The Google-owned video platform brought in more than $6 billion in advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2021, according to the quarterly earnings report of parent company Alphabet. That is up from $4 billion in the same […]
Facebook said it is making changes to its advertising tools to comply with an upcoming privacy update by Apple, limiting the effectiveness of data collection features used by advertisers. The world’s biggest social media company has been at loggerheads with Apple’s ‘App Tracking Transparency’ feature, expected to kick in with the latest iPhone software update, […]
