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☆ Elon Musk has a weak case against advertisers — but he's playing the long game
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewOn Tuesday, Elon Musk's X fulfilled his promise to sue advertisers over their boycotting of the platform. GARM creates frameworks to provide common definitions around areas like hate speech and misinformation; it's voluntary whether advertisers use them. It doesn't rank platforms on these issues, and its role isn't to advise advertisers on where to spend their dollars. US advertisers are also protected by the First Amendment to spend or not spend on whichever media platforms they please. If the X suit moves into the discovery phase, there could be a whole lot more.

Persons: —, Elon Musk's X, X, Ørsted, Musk, Ruben Schreurs, Ørsted didn't, GARM, Jim Jordan, colluded, WPP's GroupM, Rob Rakowitz, Rumble, Jamie Barnard, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Win McNamee, Jordan, Brian Wieser, Wieser Organizations: Service, Federation, Global Alliance of Responsible Media, Twitter, Unilever, Mars, CVS, Business, WFA, Republican, Procter, Gamble, WPP's, Committee, Verizon, Chanel, PepsiCo, WPP, Media, Madison Locations: Texas, Ohio

☆ It sure looks like Elon Musk is deliberately destroying X
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Jyoti Mann | Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk seems to be trying to sabotage X by telling major advertisers "go fuck yourself." It gives weight to a theory that Musk may be deliberately trying to sink X, formerly Twitter. Those banks have since been trying to sell the debt — which looks increasingly worthless as Musk drives X into the ground. In the meantime, X and Musk must pay millions of dollars in interest to their financiers. "There is no way back, there is no way to reverse the statement Elon made yesterday," said Ruben Schreurs, chief strategy officer at the marketing consultancy Ebiquity, which works with major advertisers.

Persons: Elon Musk, Martin Sorrell, —, NBCUniversal, Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Linda, Jerod Harris, Matt Levine, Levine, Lou Paskalis, Musk's, Paskalis, BI's Grace Kay, Kali Hays, it's, Elon, Ruben Schreurs, Yaccarino, didn't Organizations: Service, The New York Times, Apple, Disney, IBM, Bloomberg, Bank of America, AJL, Musk's Twitter, Ebiquity, X

☆ How climate change got sucked into the culture wars
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Laura Paddison | Ella Nilsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

For an example of how climate change is increasingly becoming a flashpoint in the culture wars, Germany is a good place to start. Meanwhile, Spain’s far-right Vox party vowed to defend the country against “the new climate religion.”But to understand why climate change and the culture wars have become so enmeshed globally, experts say the United States probably holds the key. It’s effective, it does scare people.”The origins of the climate culture war in the US lie in the early 1990s, when a new push for global climate action collided with big geopolitical change, McCright said. Lightning rod for right wing mediaConservative media has played an outsized role in fueling culture war narratives, according to experts. Fox has “been laying the groundwork necessary for positioning climate policies as a culture war issue for a long time,” she said.

Persons: —, stoked, ”, Miranda Schreurs, Anger, Green, Kristin Brinker, Jörg, Stephan Lewandowsky, Rishi Sunak, “, ” Sunak, Vox, Ron DeSantis, ” DeSantis, Aaron McCright, McCright, ” McCright, ’, Brandon Bell, Lewandowsky, “ you’d, ” Alec Tyson, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Sen, Ed Markey, Allison Fisher, Fisher, Fox, didn’t, Ed Matthew, Matthew said, Jennie King, ” King, Germany —, Matthew of E3G, ” Schreurs, “ it’s Organizations: CNN, Green Party, Technical University of Munich, University of Bristol, British, Justice, Florida Gov, Republican, Michigan State University, Oil, Republicans, Pew Research, Pew, Conservative, Massachusetts, Green, Deal, Fox, Media, Institute for Strategic Locations: Germany, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Europe, United States, West Texas, Florida, American, Kyoto, Soviet Union, Federal, Midland , Texas, Alexandria, Cortez of New York

☆ Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An overwhelming majority of the world's biggest-spending advertisers have stopped advertising on X following Elon Musk's acquisition of the company, according to new data provided exclusively to Insider by the marketing consultancy Ebiquity. The number of Ebiquity clients advertising on X has steadily declined ever since, the data shows. The company drew its X data from its digital media solutions unit, through which it gathers digital media investment data from agencies and platforms. In the same interview she cited Visa, Nissan, and AT&T as among the "1,500" brands that had resumed spending on X. "We would welcome an official follow-up with supporting data in a time where trust and transparency are of critical importance," said Schreurs.

Persons: Ruben Schreurs, Ebiquity Ebiquity, Linda Yaccarino, Ebiquity's Schreurs, Schreurs Organizations: Elon, Twitter, Google, Walmart, Vodafone, General Motors, Ebiquity, Nissan, Amazon, Unilever, Coca, IBM, Bloomberg, Media, Visa

☆ 3 ways the generative AI boom is upending the advertising agency business
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here are some of the newest challenges agency leadership teams are discovering as they race to lead AI in advertising. Productivity gains from AI risk undercutting agency feesMany agency bosses have touted the productivity efficiencies AI presents to their companies — from creating lists of search keywords to making tedious work like cataloging invoices less time-consuming. Agencies haven't figured out what to do with the AI talent they've hiredMuch like heads of digital, heads of mobile, and heads of programmatic before them, agency heads of AI are now having their time in the sun. But once such AI talent is sourced, agencies are presented with another dilemma: Where in the organization should a "head of AI" sit? Most businesses have started with this being part of the chief technology officer or the IT department's responsibilities, said Ruben Schreurs, chief strategy officer at the marketing consultancy Ebiquity.

Persons: Nick Coronges, Coronges, waitlists, Lewis Smithingham, Smithingham, Ryan Kangisser, Forrester, Jay Pattisal, haven't, they've, Ruben Schreurs, Richard Robinson Organizations: Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Big Tech, Productivity, Forrester, Xeim Engage

☆ IPG Mediabrands 'privacy alert' says clients should 'consider' a pause on Google ads product
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Google has disputed the Adalytics report, with a spokesperson describing it in a statement to Insider as "deeply flawed and misleading." An IPG Mediabrands spokeswoman said it was not accurate to say the agency was recommending a pause on any Google product. "What worries me about this Adalytics report is that Performance Max campaigns have allegedly been observed to run on made-for children inventory," Schreurs said. The article also refers to research undertaken by 3rd party (Adalytics) and the Adalytics report also mentions the following IPG/MB clients: 1. GAF For several of the above clients, the Adalytics report references that IPG/Matterkind placed the ad.

Persons: Max, IPG Mediabrands, Adalytics, wasn't, IPG, Ruben Schreurs, Schreurs, Edward J, Markey, Marsha Blackburn, Dyson, Matterkind, Biden's Organizations: Google, YouTube, The New York Times, Federal Trade Commission, COPPA, Republican, New York Times, Brand, Adalytics, NY Times, BMO, BMW, Nike, Intuit, Honda, FTC, United States, Association, MFK Locations: Massachusetts, Tennessee, United, MFK

☆ The European Parliament is auditing years of its Google ads following a report that alleged YouTube misled advertisers
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The European Parliament said it's auditing its YouTube advertising from 2020 to date. The European Parliament is auditing its Google advertising going as far back as 2020 following a report that alleged YouTube placed ads on third-party sites that violated its own standards. This evaluation process is still ongoing," said a European Parliament press representative in an emailed statement. From its initial assessment, the use of the GVP Network by the European Parliament was "residual," the representative said. The European Parliament has been put under pressure to suspend all of its Google advertising.

Persons: TrueView skippable, Adalytics, Marvin Renaud, Renaud, Roberta Metsola, Pravda.ru, monetization, Adweek, Ruben Schreurs Organizations: Google, YouTube, Fortune, Partner, GVP, GVP Network, US Treasury, Street Journal, Ebiquity Locations: TrueView, Russia, Russian, Ukraine

☆ Some advertisers are requiring their agencies to disclose when they use generative AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | Ryan Joe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some big advertisers want to know exactly when their agencies are using generative AI. And in its current form, generative AI can create derivative content. And WPP ad agency Ogilvy is advocating for advertisers and social media platforms to disclose the use generative AI in influencer campaigns, The Financial Times reported. "You need to sit down with your agency and ask how they are using generative AI." He said he's in active conversations with the heads of all the agencies the alcohol giant works with about how they are experimenting with generative AI tools.

Persons: Reed Smith, Ruben Schreurs, Schreurs, — Andrew Robertson, —, Ogilvy, Keri Bruce, Bruce, L'Oréal, we've, Asmita Dubey, Edward Pilkington, Lesley Klein Organizations: BBDO, Ad, WPP, Financial Times, of National, Diageo, Diageo North Locations: Diageo North America

☆ Ads Often Run on Websites That Come With High Carbon Emissions but Low Returns, Study Finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Megan Graham | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

Marketers are often running digital ads on websites that provide relatively low returns on their investment but generate comparatively high carbon emissions, a new study said. Concerns have been growing in some corners of digital advertising about the industry’s carbon footprint. The business consumes a significant amount of energy, leading to carbon emissions, as many websites trigger automated auctions for various ad spaces every time a consumer arrives on one of their pages. Ebiquity and Scope3 say one way of cutting down on emissions would be to work to keep marketers’ ads from winding up on “made for advertising” sites. Other groups are working on different approaches to measuring carbon emissions in advertising.

☆ The ad industry is prepping for a make-or-break holiday shopping season, with some advertisers pulling spend up to 25% even before Black Friday
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | Ryan Joe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales figures will determine whether ad spend budgets decline. Some advertisers are already pulling back spend up to 25%Last year, advertisers marched into the holiday shopping season with confidence. For retailers who are making the bulk of their money during that time, ad spend correlates to sales, Lardner said. Marketers feel less pressure to spend their fourth quarter ad budgets this yearSome advertisers are pulling back even before the holiday shopping season kicks off. Traditionally, marketers deploy most of their ad dollars during the fourth quarter — and not just because it's the holiday gifting season.

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