Advertising company Dentsu Group has said it will cut about 3,400 jobs in markets outside of Japan, equivalent to 8% of its headcount in those regions, after reporting operating losses in the second quarter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/14/companies/dentsu-overseas-job-cut/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #dentsu #advertising #jobs

It’s been 20 days, and I’ve gained my first 10 followers! Mastodon felt confusing at first, but now things are starting to make sense and I’m still learning every day. Thanks to everyone for the supportive comments, they truly helped me reach this small but meaningful milestone. Mastodon is one of the most unique and welcoming places on the web💞

#fediverse #mastoart #mastodon #writing #books #advertising#WritersCoffeeClub#WordWeavers#ScribesAndMakers

It’s been 20 days, and I’ve gained my first 10 followers! Mastodon felt confusing at first, but now things are starting to make sense and I’m still learning every day. Thanks to everyone for the supportive comments, they truly helped me reach this small but meaningful milestone. Mastodon is one of the most unique and welcoming places on the web💞

#fediverse #mastoart #mastodon #writing #books #advertising#WritersCoffeeClub#WordWeavers#ScribesAndMakers

Why does every algorithmic media feed seem like garbage? Because it IS garbage. It's not tailored to your preferences as the owners claim. It's tailored to theirs. Namely, profit and what leads to profit, keeping you addicted with outrage and the occasional dopamine hit. #SurveillanceCapitalism#Advertising#Tech#Dystopia

Why does every algorithmic media feed seem like garbage? Because it IS garbage. It's not tailored to your preferences as the owners claim. It's tailored to theirs. Namely, profit and what leads to profit, keeping you addicted with outrage and the occasional dopamine hit. #SurveillanceCapitalism#Advertising#Tech#Dystopia

"[Nostr] has the Zap Lightning payments and stuff ... we haven't built into our own app, because it's not a priority, and in some ways we're positioning ourselves as the non-Bitcoiner Nostr folks.

But ... easy micro-payments between users, and from users to services, gives us a economic model that's not advertising."

@rabble, 2025

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/

#payments #advertising #Nostr

@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa

'A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by using data from menstruation and fertility app Flo to sell advertising to the social network.'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/meta_flo_data/

'A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by using data from menstruation and fertility app Flo to sell advertising to the social network.'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/meta_flo_data/

What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech?

New blog post by Pieter Wolters and me.

Our most controversial claim is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA.

Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.

https://dsa-observatory.eu/2025/08/01/what-does-the-dsa-mean-for-online-advertising-and-adtech/

#law #politics #economy#tech #ai #platforms #advertising #marketing #dsa#privacy #gdpr

What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech?

New blog post by Pieter Wolters and me.

Our most controversial claim is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA.

Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.

https://dsa-observatory.eu/2025/08/01/what-does-the-dsa-mean-for-online-advertising-and-adtech/

#law #politics #economy#tech #ai #platforms #advertising #marketing #dsa#privacy #gdpr

The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling ordering advertising giant Dentsu Group to pay ¥300 million in fines over bid-rigging related to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2021. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/japan/crime-legal/dentsu-bid-rigging-uphold/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #dentsu#2020tokyoolympics #advertising #corruption #japanesecourts #2020tokyoparalympics

Meta ends political ads on their platforms in the EU by October because they don't want to comply with new transparency and targeting regulations.

The reasons given here are really weak. And if you do not allow these ads, you still need to define what they are.

#politics #advertising #targeting

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/07/ending-political-electoral-and-social-issue-advertising-in-the-eu/

Meta ends political ads on their platforms in the EU by October because they don't want to comply with new transparency and targeting regulations.

The reasons given here are really weak. And if you do not allow these ads, you still need to define what they are.

#politics #advertising #targeting

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/07/ending-political-electoral-and-social-issue-advertising-in-the-eu/

"We further show that these methods increased persuasion by ... and that, strikingly, where they increased [ #LLM ] persuasiveness they also systematically decreased factual accuracy."

Sounds like a characteristic of human #persuasion, especially in politics and #advertising / #propaganda.

#ArXiv_2507_13919 #LLMs

When you haven't been exposed to advertising for a while and it's no longer normalised, it's quite jarring. Not because it's annoying or shit, rarely lacking any artistic merit, begging and pleading and lying for attention and complicity - that bit you remember.

But because the only way this crap exists at all is through force, ramming it through devices without permission or consent. An entire industry based on tracking and surveillance to target assault.

It's fucking despicable.

#advertising