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We all know that Facebook is watching us somehow or other, even if we don’t use it. Now anyone can play at Mark Zuckerberg, with the Facebook Portal, a sort of combo between permanent Skype and iPad. A few glitches ...

Last month Twitter rolled out a new video ad bidding option. It allows advertisers and marketers to run videos of 15 seconds or shorter, but they’ll only be charged if the user watches the ad for a full six seconds. ...

Facebook has had its fair share of bad press, audience challenges and brand safety issues amidst its meteoric growth. It released a report last week on the benefits of combining Facebook and Outdoor advertising that is a welcome realisation that ...

Here’s a new ‘privacy’ ad for Facebook by Possible (which still seems to be alive somewhere in the WPP empire) saying that privacy is a a matter for individuals and Facebook has lots of settings to suit their requirements. Nothing ...

A YouGov survey recently revealed that six out of ten voters would not buy a used car from Boris Johnson. Apparently though, 13 per cent would, which proves Abraham Lincoln’s famous dictum that “you can fool some of the people ...

Readers with (very) long memories may recall that in 1987 the Saatchi brothers, then running the world’s biggest agency group, announced their intention to take over the UK’s Midland Bank, one of the biggest at the time. The Midland (now ...

It’s been a hellish few weeks for Facebook. Earlier this month, just 24 hours after announcing its pivot to a more privacy-focused platform in an attempt to reassure an increasingly concerned user base, it was revealed that Facebook’s single biggest ...

Christophe Guilluy’s recently published English-language version of “Twilight of the Elites” focuses on nascent tensions between France’s metropolitan ruling class and the disenfranchised people who live in the countryside outside of France’s “citadels” of power and economic influence. Originally published ...

By Dino Myers-Lamptey Data breaches, Mark Zuckerberg’s senate appearances, Martin Lewis’ fake news playouts, undermining democracy accusations, tripling tax bills in the UK and paying kids to spy on their mobiles. This doesn’t sound like the achievements of a company ...