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Meta seeks to hide harms from teens

Platformer • 2476 implied HN points • 10 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Digital Advertising
  1. Meta announced new measures to protect users under 18 from harmful content on its platforms.
  2. There is a growing focus on child safety in social media regulations, shifting from speech-related issues.
  3. Lawmakers and social networks need to find common ground to make real progress in improving teen mental health.

Maybe we should make ChatGPT less “WEIRD”

Sex and the State • 23 implied HN points • 19 Feb 26
🕹 Technology Digital Advertising
  1. Large language models learn mainly from online content produced by Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic (WEIRD) populations, so their outputs reflect those perspectives more than the global population.
  2. WEIRD modes of thinking — more individualistic, analytical, and universalist — differ from many non-WEIRD, more holistic and group-focused cultures, which makes models less accurate or relevant for those other groups.
  3. That WEIRD bias can shape real-world effects: by reinforcing individualistic and commercial norms, LLMs may worsen loneliness and reduce real-world socializing with heavy use and advertising, so we should consider making models less WEIRD and study these downstream impacts.

Big Tech Myths And Facts: Vision Pro, Google Culture, Digital Ad Market Edition

Big Technology • 3878 implied HN points • 02 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Digital Advertising
  1. Big Tech companies are experiencing a mix of record revenue and deep layoffs as they navigate the costs of developing new technologies like AI and mixed reality.
  2. Apple may face challenges with the Vision Pro as it might not reach mass-market success until 2030 or beyond, despite initial hype.
  3. Google is acknowledging the need to address its slow-moving culture by simplifying its organizational structure and removing layers to improve efficiency.

Overthinking Elon Musk

Read Max • 2766 implied HN points • 06 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Digital Advertising
  1. Elon Musk may be making decisions for Twitter based on private-equity strategies to grow revenue and margins quickly.
  2. Product changes on Twitter, like removing headlines, may be aimed at increasing metrics to attract advertisers rather than harming journalism intentionally.
  3. Many negative changes on Twitter may be due to structural power dynamics and financial pressures rather than Elon Musk's personal ideology.
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Measuring Marketing Performance

Making Connections by Jax • 137 implied HN points • 12 Jun 23
💼 Business Digital Advertising
  1. Marketing attribution is becoming more challenging due to privacy regulations like Apple's App Tracking Transparency.
  2. Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM) provides a top-down approach to understanding ROI by analyzing historical data and external influences.
  3. Lift tests offer a bottom-up method to prove causation in marketing effectiveness, requiring experimentation with test and control groups.

✅ Navigating AI: Opportunities, risks, and barriers for professional communicators

Wadds Inc. newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 10 Jun 24
🕹 Technology Digital Advertising
  1. Professional communicators should focus on building relationships rather than just dealing with the media. If they stick to only media perspectives, they might not survive in the future.
  2. There isn't a straightforward way for organizations to widely adopt AI beyond basic tools. Solutions like Google Gemini and Microsoft CoPilot could be the key to moving forward.
  3. The issues around using media for training AI need to be sorted out. In the meantime, companies should set up clear rules and provide proper training for their workers.

Meet the Marketing Team

Concordium Monthly Updates • 78 implied HN points • 02 May 23
💼 Business Digital Advertising
  1. Concordium has enhanced marketing efforts with a new Chief Marketing Officer and internal marketing team.
  2. Chief Marketing Officer, Torben Rene Larsen, brings over 30 years of financial marketing experience.
  3. Marketing Project Manager, Anne Korsgaard Lauritzen, focuses on collaboration for increased marketing effectiveness.

Elon Musk's big plans for Twitter

Jon’s Newsletter • 79 implied HN points • 30 Oct 22
💼 Business Digital Advertising
  1. Elon Musk wants to make Twitter more like subscription services such as LinkedIn and YouTube. He sees a future where Twitter earns up to $10 billion from subscriptions by 2028.
  2. Currently, Twitter relies heavily on advertising for its income, but Musk is looking to change that. He plans to reduce the ad revenue percentage from over 90% to around 45%.
  3. If Musk's plans succeed, Twitter might go public again. Some experts think this could happen as soon as 2026, and the company's value could rise significantly.

Introducing ExBoost: Revolutionizing Chrome Extension Discoverability

!important • 87 implied HN points • 12 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Digital Advertising
  1. Extensions struggle with visibility in the large Chrome Web Store catalog, especially new ones without reviews or users
  2. ExBoost is a community-driven solution that lets extensions promote each other for free through banners
  3. ExBoost balances traffic across extensions, allowing them to gain visibility by showing banners inside other extensions

Sick moves brah

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends • 0 implied HN points • 26 May 16
🕹 Technology Digital Advertising
  1. Does Siri believe in God? AI advances could lead to software grappling with faith in the future, raising intriguing questions.
  2. Modern daters on Tinder aren't just looking for hook-ups. Sociologist Jessica Carbino found that 80% of users seek long-term relationships.
  3. The Internet's perception of you may be quite different from how you see yourself. Data collected online can create an eerie portrait that doesn't always match reality.

Alphabet Soup: Google is Alpha, but where are the Bets?

Musings on Markets • 0 implied HN points • 19 Apr 18
💼 Business Digital Advertising
  1. Google's main strength comes from its ability to grow revenue while keeping good profit margins. This has helped the company stay strong in the advertising market.
  2. The digital advertising space is mostly controlled by Google and Facebook, leading to a two-company competition. Google's reach and data collection make it a major player, especially in services like YouTube and Gmail.
  3. Alphabet's other business ventures are still developing. While some see them as risky investments, they may offer future growth opportunities if they succeed.

It lives

Kiernan • 0 implied HN points • 19 May 23
🕹 Technology Digital Advertising
  1. Siev.io is now online
  2. The site has three main areas to explore: podcast ads, industry topics, and ad placement details
  3. The creator is taking a break to focus on improving Siev before a demo at GlueCon