https://www.adweek.com/commerce/times-square-set-to-host-digital-billboard-featuring-nft-content/ Security has been tight. So tight, we’ve had to work on it back in the office. Everyone is under an NDA of course and each part of the team has been isolated so no-one has access to the full thing apart from the client and, even there, only selected people and systems have the …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #171
https://digiday.com/marketing/google-switch-floc-cookie-replacement-fingerprinting-potential/ We make a big thing of it in my family. The Choosing. To be honest I don’t get to choose, it’s a family thing. Topics are passed down in our family and woe betide you if you try and pick something outside. “Tradition”, I’m reminded. We have this lame ceremony thing where I have …
Dispatch from an advertising future #170
https://www.campaignlive.com/article/youtube-launches-shorts-campaign-compete-tiktok/1724457 They’d got used to textspeak. Even those strange little pictures she’d added to everything, they’d learned to read them. A different language but they’d picked it up. They’d had to if they were going to “follow” her. And as parents, that was their responsibility. It wasn’t spying, it was following. But this was new. …
Dispatch from an advert future #169
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/spacex-satellite-ads-elon-musk-spacex-gec-b1899373.html He watched the news. “Refugees” had been something from far away. Now people like him were crammed onto ferries fleeing apocalyptic flames. These people took photos with phones like his, watched the unfolding disaster on tablets like his. They were leaving cities like his, homes like his, with children like his. This was a …
Dispatch from an advertising future #168
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/5/22611748/bill-gates-epstein-meetings-mistake-foundation-workplace-harassment Here at Majority Reports, we take taking meetings seriously. Our algorithms provide a full background and foreground check on the attendees for your meeting. Our Background Majority Report gives you a full picture by grading attendees for “awareness” and our Foreground Majority Report gives you a full likelihood picture. We check not just what …
Dispatch from an advertising future #167
https://www.engadget.com/bird-community-safety-zones-pilot-181559087.html You’re grounded. No, I’m sorry, it’s for your own good. Rules are rules. You knew what we’d said and you chose to ignore it. Fine. Consequences. One week. We’re not going to lock everything, just your games and social. You can still call and message us – and we can reach you! But, no. …