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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: This year, BMO, a Canadian bank, was looking for Canadian adults to apply for a credit card. So the bank’s advertising agency ran a YouTube campaign using an ad-targeting system from Google t…
Experts say they are concerned by the targeting of habitual gamblers in a database discovered on Microsoft’s ad technology platform XandrGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn online advertising database used to tar…
Anti-gambling advocates call company ‘utterly irresponsible’ as industry lobbies to prevent total ban on betting ads in AustraliaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news pod…
Independent Kylea Tink says it ‘looks like a soft drink, tastes like a soft drink and has the same name as a soft drink’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe c…
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company will stop harvesting audience data to create profiles for advertisers after regulatory rulingsFacebook and Instagram are to ask EU users for permission to show them personalised adverts, in a concession that chal…
According to CNBC, Walmart shoppers “will soon see more third-party ads on screens in Walmart self-checkout lanes and TV aisles; hear spots over the store’s radio; and be able to sample items at demo stations.” From the report: For Walmart, selling ad …
Video withdrawn but not before questions raised over competency at beleaguered utility companyThe advert for Yorkshire Water made what appeared to be Yorkshire look wonderful: beautiful, sweeping countryside and smiling, friendly local people, some in …
Climate campaigners complain to ACCC over Appea ad that claimed gas was ‘50% cleaner’ than coalGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastEnvironmental campaigners have asked Australia’s consumer watchdog to investigate an…
Average was once every 16 seconds across 10 matches last season, with a total of 3,522 in West Ham v ChelseaBetting company logos appear as often as 3,500 times during the course of a televised football match, the majority on pitchside hoardings, promp…
Advertising Standards Authority rules against two promoted tweets featuring Premier League coachesThe advertising watchdog has banned two adverts run by the sports betting business Ladbrokes for appealing to under-18s by featuring well-known Premier Le…