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The death of identity: Knowing your customer in the age of data privacy

TechCrunch

In the digital age, companies have learned much about their customers by forming individual profiles from third-party cookies, social content, purchased demographics and more. Companies have employed digital analytics, advertising and marketing solutions to track customers and connect their behaviors across touch points.

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Are Your Ads Funding Disinformation?

Harvard Business Review

The global digital advertising industry is estimated to be $600 billion and growing. As advertisers handed off day-to-day operations to a bewilderingly complex digital advertising supply chain, companies often don’t know where their ads are ending up — including on sites that spew disinformation and hate-speech.

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Radar trends to watch: September 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Social Media. Facebook is not happy about this; targeted advertising depends critically on user tracking. Google (which has been gradually implementing other limitations on advertising technology) has been quiet about it. They are way behind the Chinese. Operations. There’s a good thread on Twitter discussing the paper.

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Exploring AI solutions enhancing productivity and cost savings

Agile Engine

reviews, social media, etc.) The same functionality has a powerful impact on AdTech where advertiser trust is a key driver of growth for advertising technology platforms. AI-powered tools analyze vast data (e.g., with unmatched accuracy and speed.

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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Businesses must also take advantage of customer telemetry, Big Data, generated by activity on websites, mobile devices, and social media, to create a more personalized experience — both in-house and online. Additionally, led the successful exists of a few advertising technology startups, then joined IBM as Watson was taking-off.

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The Ad-Tech Industry Must Finally Admit That Their Product (Ads) is Dangerous

Jeremiah Grossman

While social media polls are admittedly unscientific, I’d argue these numbers are actually pretty close to reality, which means that roughly three-out-of-four computer security experts largely view ad-blocking as a more indispensable part of protection than anti-virus software by far. Hack Yourself First: Jeremiah Grossman.