Advertising Tech
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Trends
Spotify will now let brands sponsor its Discover Weekly playlist
Spotify has begun testing a new type of ad in Discover Weekly, its personalized playlist of music that’s the streaming…
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STARTUPS
A month after $70M, Clearbanc raises $50M fund to front startups ad money
Clearbanc is disrupting startup funding by providing companies cash to buy ads in exchange for a revenue share so they…
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STARTUPS
Acast raises $35M to help podcasters make money
Podcasting has grown tremendously in recent years, and a Stockholm-based company called Acast is looking to help all those podcasters…
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Trends
Google ‘incognito’ search results still vary from person to person, DDG study finds
A study of Google search results by anti-tracking rival DuckDuckGo has suggested that escaping the so-called ‘filter bubble’ of personalized…
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Finance
The economics and tradeoffs of ad-funded smart city tech
In order to have innovative smart city applications, cities first need to build out the connected infrastructure, which can be…
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STARTUPS
Piano teams up with True[x] to combine advertising and paywalls
Nearly every online publisher has launched or announced a paywall — but of course, even the ones that are successful…
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