TikTok’s message to Meta: If you won’t take our ad dollars, your competitors will. Meta took a bold stance this month by blocking ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, from running ads on Meta apps in some markets. Why? Well, Meta’s answer was pretty straightforward. It didn’t want to “run ads from a competitor whose goal is
A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms, with TikTok banning the film’s advertising account. According to a story in The Hollywood Reporter, the documentary’s distributor Bleecker Street was recently notified by TikTok that the account had received a “permanent suspension” due to its political content. TechCrunch has reached
You’ve just set down your Xbox controller after wiping out the final boss. Now, time for an ad! The folks at Patentlyze made me aware of a recent patent filing from Microsoft that hints at Xbox’s in-game advertising ambitions. The filing, published earlier this month, outlines a concept for a content management system that would
The ads pointed people towards almost 50 apps combined across Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store. Of the 350 ads, the researchers say that around 300 of them directed people to AI image or video generator ads, with most of these apps being linked to China-based developers. Some apps had already been removed by
Throw a rock in New York City, and apparently you’ll hit an AI food ad. At least that was X user Maggie Moda’s assessment after spotting a series of peculiar sidewalk signs outside the city’s delis and cafés in a post that has since racked up 2.8 million views. There were croissant sandwiches with almost
When Kellyn Smith Kenny joined AT&T as CMO in November 2020, she joined a company whose identity was about to change dramatically. AT&T had spent years expanding into entertainment, including its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, and owned satellite television provider DirecTV. By the time Kenny arrived, that strategy was giving way to a
