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  • Curing this costly addiction seems near impossible, regulating it is the next best option

    Curing this costly addiction seems near impossible, regulating it is the next best option

    ASCI’s annual complaints report found that offshore betting platforms were the biggest violator of its code. Therein lies a tale and a message

  • Zepto auto-activates ad campaigns for inactive brands, sellers flag consent and billing concerns

    Zepto auto-activates ad campaigns for inactive brands, sellers flag consent and billing concerns

    Zepto informed sellers that it has proactively launched ad campaigns for them to help “maximize reach and performance.” However, sellers say the move, which appears to allow Zepto to automatically debit from pre-approved budgets or ad wallets, lacks transparency and raises concerns about platform overreach.

  • Amazon Prime Video to play ads during shows, movies in India from June 17

    Amazon Prime Video to play ads during shows, movies in India from June 17

    Amazon Prime Video will offer a new ad-free option for consumers at an additional Rs 699 a year or Rs 129 a month

  • Spotify boosts ad offerings in India with Ad Exchange launch

    Spotify boosts ad offerings in India with Ad Exchange launch

    Spotify's Ad Exchange launch in India follows a six-month pilot in partnership with The Trade Desk in the United States and Canada.

  • Nazara Tech's Datawrkz buys London-based growth marketing agency Space & Time

    Nazara Tech's Datawrkz buys London-based growth marketing agency Space & Time

    Space & Time is Datawrkz's first acquisition and it is expected to fuel the company's growth ambitions across Europe and North America

  • Retail Media Revolution: Transforming India's advertising landscape

    Retail Media Revolution: Transforming India's advertising landscape

    Retail media is reshaping advertising in India by blending e-commerce and data insights. This shift allows hyper-targeted ads and real-time consumer engagement, fostering a dynamic marketplace where brands, from local to national, can thrive in the evolving digital economy 

  • From Amazon to Byju's, top apps found using misleading patterns in ads: ASCI report

    From Amazon to Byju's, top apps found using misleading patterns in ads: ASCI report

    E-commerce apps Amazon and Flipkart, and ed-tech apps like Byju's and Unacademy were found using dark patterns in their advertising.

  • $17 billion UK adtech lawsuit against Google can go ahead, tribunal rules

    $17 billion UK adtech lawsuit against Google can go ahead, tribunal rules

    Ad Tech Collective Action is bringing the claim on behalf of publishers who say they have suffered losses due to Google’s allegedly anticompetitive behavior.

  • It’s time the advertising industry was treated like an industry – and regulated

    It’s time the advertising industry was treated like an industry – and regulated

    Relying on an industry that has a wide reach and impact to self-regulate is not tenable. The government should recognise it as any other industry and bring in appropriate regulations

  • Sumona Chakravarti reunites with onscreen husband Kapil Sharma for an ad, see video

    Sumona Chakravarti reunites with onscreen husband Kapil Sharma for an ad, see video

    Actress Sumona Chakravarti and Kapil Sharma appeared as an onscreen couple in 'The Kapil Sharma Show'. The oil ad revives their banter from the hit comedy/talk show.

  • Advertising: Don’t believe what you see in the age of AI ads

    Advertising: Don’t believe what you see in the age of AI ads

    History is littered with innovations that were exploited by unscrupulous marketers. The telephone opened up the floodgates to robocalls and e-mail to spam. Generative AI seems to have opened the door to a new era of fantasy where advertising will become more unreal than ever. From people having their identities stolen and publicised without permission to low-level fakery like unappealing, inauthentic food, AI poses a new challenge for consumers

  • What’s the future of advertising? Ask Sora 

    What’s the future of advertising? Ask Sora 

    Perhaps the most significant short-run use of Sora's one-minute videos will be for advertising — especially internet advertising. The costs of creating new ads are likely to fall. More advertising may sound like a mixed blessing. But ads will almost certainly be more fun and creative than they are now. These ads also might be targeted, rather than serving a mass audience, with your internet history deciding what ads you will see

  • My advertising career is just beginning. Piyush Pandey is my inspiration not comparison, says Tanmay Bhat

    My advertising career is just beginning. Piyush Pandey is my inspiration not comparison, says Tanmay Bhat

    Tanmay Bhat reacts to Storyboard18's story about him potentially becoming the new creative king of Indian advertising.

  • Meta's Facebook, Instagram to charge Apple service fee for posts 'boosted' via iOS apps

    Meta's Facebook, Instagram to charge Apple service fee for posts 'boosted' via iOS apps

    Advertisers will be able to boost their content on Instagram and Facebook via a browser without paying the Apple service charges, the social media giant said.

  • M.S. Dhoni, H.S. Prannoy: How and why banks pick athletes as brand ambassadors

    M.S. Dhoni, H.S. Prannoy: How and why banks pick athletes as brand ambassadors

    The recent tie-ups between former Indian cricket captain M.S. Dhoni and SBI and badminton star H.S. Prannoy and Federal Bank are a continuation of a tradition.

  • ICC Men's Cricket World Cup advertising: 7 Hits and misses in 2023

    ICC Men's Cricket World Cup advertising: 7 Hits and misses in 2023

    Brands have splurged the cash in a World Cup tournament marked by a handful of hits, sans a standout timeless winner.

  • The next revolution in marketing has begun courtesy Gen AI

    The next revolution in marketing has begun courtesy Gen AI

    Generative AI's capabilities in hyper-personalising content and predictive audience targeting will help the marketing field that is struggling for decent customer acquisition budgets amid high-interest rates, stricter privacy laws and economic shocks like the pandemic

  • Cricket World Cup to drive festive advertising, spends to grow 15%

    Cricket World Cup to drive festive advertising, spends to grow 15%

    Ad spends for sports-related advertising could reach Rs 9,000-10,000 crore this year, with cricket accounting for the lion’s share

  • RK Swamy files for IPO, first by an integrated marketing services group

    RK Swamy files for IPO, first by an integrated marketing services group

    The IPO comprises a fresh issue of aggregating up to Rs 215 crore and an offer for sale of up to 8,700,000 equity shares by selling shareholders.

  • TV ad volume growth stays flat in H1 of 2023, GEC surpasses news genre

    TV ad volume growth stays flat in H1 of 2023, GEC surpasses news genre

    Within the GEC genre, Hindi GEC emerged as the leading genre for advertising with 24 percent share of ad volumes.

  • X wants brands to spend at least $1,000 per month on ads to maintain verified status

    X wants brands to spend at least $1,000 per month on ads to maintain verified status

    Musk said that the "moderately high bar" for a verified organization on the platform was to keep, "scammers" from creating "millions of accounts".

  • Norway slaps ban on Meta's behavioural advertising, threatens daily fine of $100,000

    Norway slaps ban on Meta's behavioural advertising, threatens daily fine of $100,000

    The Norwegian Data Protection Authority considers Meta's behavioral advertising one of the biggest threats to privacy.

  • India’s 'grey' market remains under-exploited

    India’s 'grey' market remains under-exploited

    Spending by seniors can touch $1.3 trillion mark by 2030, according to one estimate. But strangely marketers don’t see this market as an opportunity 

  • Canada's government will stop advertising on Facebook and Instagram

    Canada's government will stop advertising on Facebook and Instagram

    Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government's decision at a news conference.

  • Twitter's new chief working on plans to bring advertisers back to platform: FT

    Twitter's new chief working on plans to bring advertisers back to platform: FT

    Yaccarino, who started as CEO on June 5, is planning to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads that will be shown to users scrolling through Twitter's new short-video feed, the newspaper reported, citing three people familiar with the situation.

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