2025-12-09
Yes, Mark we're aware your AI team has no background in online ads... The CNBC exclusive on AI and Meta this morning is a must-read for anyone who spends the bulk of their ad dollars on Meta. While the article is mainly about how Meta's Llama has trailed its rivals, it is [image]
CNBC
Sources: Meta is pursuing a Llama successor and new frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, set for release in Q1 2026 and that could be a proprietary model
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so optimistic last year about his company's Llama family of artificial intelligence models that he predicted …
2025-10-21
Streaming services will raise their prices every year until subscribers cancel. So far they haven't.
Variety
HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99
It's going to cost you more to watch HBO Max, after the streaming platform raised its prices just a year after its last hikes.
2024-12-12
We're about to enter the 4th hour of Meta's outage. It's December 11th, for many brands today-tomorrow are shipping cut-offs. This is devastating for brands only spending on the platform. [image]
BleepingComputer
Meta says it is “99% of the way” to resolving a global outage that hit Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, starting at approximately 12:40pm ET
Facebook: down — Bluesky: up up up with the workers Karissa Bell / @karissabe : Quite an outage for Meta... I can't remember the last time so many of its services were down more ...
2024-01-04
So TikTok Shops is about to take 8% referral fee to run on TikTok Shops. This is insane. Am I reading this right? [image]
Bloomberg
Sources: TikTok aims to grow TikTok Shop US' merchandise volume tenfold to $17.5B in 2024 and plans to launch TikTok Shop in Latin America in the coming months
- ByeDance's video app is fast expanding beyond advertising … The 2024 merchandise volume goal for the US version of TikTok Shop …
So TikTok Shops is about to take 8% referral fee to run on TikTok Shops. This is insane. Am I reading this right? [image]
The Information
TikTok plans to raise TikTok Shop's US seller fees from 2% to 8% over the next few months; a source says TikTok has started reducing some merchant subsidies
The Information :
2023-04-25
Yes it's Monday and yesterday's outage is still fresh, but the fact Meta hasn't already had an alert set-up in their system like they do when they remove interest targets, etc is problematic. Many brands are not clued in to the Meta Ads Monitor, nor pay attention to Twitter. Many don't even probably know there was an issue. Yes, that's on them. But it's Meta's responsibility to communicate to EVERYONE that this occurred and add steps IN PLATFORM to make it right.
AdExchanger
On April 23, a Meta ad system glitch caused some campaigns to overspend by more than double their daily cost cap; 10+ agencies say Meta gave next to no feedback
James Hercher / AdExchanger :
2022-10-25
There is no limit to the bullshit coming out of Apple. https://twitter.com/...
MacRumors
Apple's new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that sell “boosts” for posts must use in-app purchases for the transactions
With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple is updating the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.
2022-06-02
It's weird when the tech gods hate their users so much. https://twitter.com/...
MacRumors
Twitter plans to shut down TweetDeck for Mac on July 1 to “focus on making TweetDeck even better”, pointing users to the web version and an upcoming Preview
2021-11-15
This is kinda crazy... @Apple has too much power. Read this article on how Apple is forcing states to foot the bill so Apple can own your digital wallet and become even more essential to your life. https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Agreements between Apple and some states to offer digital IDs in Wallet show states covering the costs of issuing the IDs and Apple approving marketing efforts
2021-06-11
While this is mostly referring to the app store, there is a case to be made Apple's ATT privacy prompt falls under this too. Apple writes these prompts, not the companies. And as a reminder, Apple's own prompt is buried deep within iOS settings... https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Politico
Sources: House Democrats will introduce five bills to limit anticompetitive practices of Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and others as soon as this week
2021-06-10
Everything is fine guys! <Narrator> “everything was not fine.” https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Facebook says global ads chief Carolyn Everson is leaving after more than a decade; Everson was a liaison to big marketers during major controversies
Megan Graham / CNBC :
2021-05-24
He is a gamer, a gamer of my emotions https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
In his Epic v. Apple trial testimony, Tim Cook offered a carefully tended ignorance that left many of the lawsuit's key questions unanswered, or unanswerable
He is a gamer, a gamer of my emotions https://twitter.com/...
Protocol
As Apple and Epic make their closing arguments, a look back at the judge's pointed questioning of Cook on Friday that touched on App Store's lack of competition
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over the Epic v. Apple antitrust trial, saved her best for last.
2021-02-26
Hey FB, This ad is brutal. Please tell me you're actually going to highlight real businesses, the smbs that are the backbone of personalized ad success stories. https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Facebook launches a TV, radio, and digital ad campaign in support of personalized ads called Good Ideas Deserve to be Found, ahead of Apple's IDFA changes
Megan Graham / CNBC :
2021-02-15
This headline is really not what this article is about. I wish journalists would tell more stories about how our economy was saved because of eCommerce, how millions in this world own small businesses thanks to Facebook. https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple
exactly what Apple is attacking FB over.) Depesh Mandalia / @depeshm : Who's signing up for Apple ads?! I love the paradoxical wording: a) the Apple ad platform does not track you ...
2021-01-29
Yes, because Mary, a 58 yr old small business owner that sells on Shopify and runs ads on FB to JoAnn Fabrics interests is a threat to democracy. Tim Cook can screw off. https://twitter.com/...
9to5Mac
In an apparent swipe at Zuckerberg, Tim Cook says that valuing engagement over privacy leads to “polarization” and “violence” and such businesses need reform
from safeguarding your health & financial data to guarding against algorithms that perpetuate rampant misinformation. We need transparency and reform. Jason Snell / @jsnell : Tim C...
2020-11-21
Apple and FB are having a “who is worse” at privacy battle in the news. Meanwhile millions of businesses are stuck in the middle forced to use FB ads to stay open during a global pandemic. Work this shit out behind the scenes. https://twitter.com/...
9to5Mac
Apple defends its delayed IDFA changes in iOS 14 and slams Facebook, saying “its intent is to collect as much data as possible” on its users
Last month, a coalition of eight civil and human rights organizations penned an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding …
Apple and FB are having a “who is worse” at privacy battle in the news. Meanwhile millions of businesses are stuck in the middle forced to use FB ads to stay open during a global pandemic. Work this shit out behind the scenes. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Facebook responds to Apple's defense of IDFA, saying Apple is using its “dominant market position to self-preference their own data collection”
Bloomberg :
2020-11-20
Apple and FB are having a “who is worse” at privacy battle in the news. Meanwhile millions of businesses are stuck in the middle forced to use FB ads to stay open during a global pandemic. Work this shit out behind the scenes. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Facebook responds to Apple's defense of IDFA, saying Apple is using its “dominant market position to self-preference their own data collection”
Apple Inc. on Thursday slammed Facebook Inc. and other internet giants for their ad-targeting practices in response to a letter questioning …
2020-10-31
When the tech companies have too much power.... https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Instagram says it will temporarily remove the “Recent” tab from hashtag pages to reduce the spread of misinformation leading up to the US election
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :