What happens when a Big Tech CEO gets on an earnings call these days? They talk about AI. AI will be Meta’s “biggest investment area” in 2024, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors during the company’s Q3 earnings call.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Demand More Google has started its global rollout of Demand Gen, a machine-learning ad product launched in beta over the summer. Demand Gen is akin to Performance Max, Google’s most prominent machine learning-based ad product … which is a euphemistic way to say […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tick Tock TikTok Shop isn’t doing so hot in the US. On average, the shopping service is making between $3 million and $4 million per day from US consumers compared with $50 million and $60 million in Southeast Asia, one of its most […]
We spoke with Justin Osofsky, Meta’s head of online sales, operations and partnerships to get a pulse on the state of Meta’s business, including automation, AI and Threads, of course.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. On The Spot Spotify added 10 million subscribers since last year, bringing its total to 220 million paid users. Most streaming TV services would hire a troupe of trumpeters to announce that news. For Spotify, though, it isn’t enough to assure investors of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Caught Thread-Handed Tech companies rarely credit competitors when they copycat a feature or product. When Mark Zuckerberg published the first Instagram Stories post in 2016, he avoided citing Snapchat, although the term “Stories” itself is a blatant ripoff. When YouTube and Instagram unashamedly […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Who Needs Trust And Safety? Big Tech companies are eliminating thousands of positions. Layoffs have largely impacted trust and safety and AI ethics teams, CNBC reports. Meta announced plans to cut 21,000 jobs in 2023, a culling CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as the […]
Zitron argues that the internet is being ruined by the Big Tech players that control it and that advertising needs to lose its sense of entitlement over everyone’s data.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The round-up will return Tuesday, February 21, in observance of the Presidents’ Day holiday. Thanks, George and Abe, for the long weekend! The Clone Wars Every few months, social platforms align on a shiny new object … that’s really just another version of […]
2022 was a no good, very bad year for Meta’s stock. It was the year that Meta reported its first-ever revenue decline – yet shares soared by more than 30% in after-hours trading on Wednesday following Meta’s Q4 2022 earnings report.
