Recording Academy bans Billboard chart numbers and sales figures in Grammy ads

The Recording Academy recently released their ‘rules and guidelines’ for the upcoming 64th Grammy Awards, making a big change in For Your Consideration ads. The new 64-page document was released by Academy earlier in July, with Billboard reporting that the FYC ads may no longer reveal Billboard chart numbers or sales figures in the ads.   This … Read more

Facebook will allow content creators to place ads on videos as short as one minute

Facebook will allow content creators to place ads on videos as short as one minute to earn revenue in bid to attract users from Snapchat and TikTok Facebook is letting users place ads in shorter videos so they can earn revenue The service previously only allowed this with three-minute videos Now, Facebook is allowing users … Read more

Khloe Kardashian confuses fans with super skinny frame in new ads for her shoe collection

Khloe Kardashian introduced an entirely new look in photos promoting her new Good American shoe collection. The 36-year-old reality star displayed a much thinner frame than fans are used to in the bizarre shots she posted to her clothing brand’s Instagram account on Tuesday. The first snap displayed Khloe sitting on a poolside cushion with … Read more

LA man, 90, takes out two newspaper ads telling AT&T his internet is too slow

Los Angeles man, 90, spends $10,000 to take out two newspaper ads telling AT&T CEO that his internet service is too slow – and he receives a call from the company’s executive office straight away Aaron Epstein, 90, has been struggling with slow AT&T internet at his home in North Hollywood The frustrated senior citizen … Read more

Facebook developing new ‘topic exclusion’ tool that can keep ads away from political News Feed posts

Facebook is developing a new tool that will keep ads away from sensitive posts in your News Feed. The social media platform is testing ‘topic exclusion’ controls that allow advertisers to keep marketing from politics, crime, controversial social issues and other designated topics. It’s already started using the controls with a limited number of advertisers. … Read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook claims Facebook’s personalized ads cause violence

Apple CEO Tim Cook claims Facebook’s personalized ads cause ‘violence and polarization’ in the latest round of the Silicon Valley battle over privacy Cook was speaking at a virtual conference out of Brussels on Thursday  He has long criticized the use of targeted advertising which Facebook and millions of other businesses – large and small … Read more

Hard-hitting new TV ads urging Britons to stay home will air from TONIGHT

A new hard-hitting series of adverts urging Britons to stay at home will air from tonight, as ministers ramp-up pressure on the public to obey lockdown rules. The shock tactic adverts will feature close-ups of Covid patients wearing oxygen masks accompanied by a bold thought provoking message. In one advert, viewers will be told to … Read more

Kim Kardashian is a busty bombshell in electrifying metallic KKW ads

The show must go on for Kim Kardashian. Amid a swirl of rumors that she is on the verge of divorcing Kanye West the 40-year-old reality star was busy promoting her perfume brand on Instagram this Thursday. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians standout slipped into a couple of gleaming metallic outfits that played up her … Read more

Kim Kardashian is a busty bombshell in electrifying metallic KKW ads

The show must go on for Kim Kardashian. Amid a swirl of rumors that she is on the verge of divorcing Kanye West the 40-year-old reality star was busy promoting her perfume brand on Instagram this Thursday. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians standout slipped into a couple of gleaming metallic outfits that played up her … Read more

Scammers are churning out vast numbers of bogus online ads, MPs told

Pension savers and investors are being bombarded with fraudulent online ads on ‘industrial scale’, say financial regulators who called for more money and resources to step up public warning campaigns. Criminals no longer need to produce glossy brochures or set up fake offices as online adverts can be created ‘very easily’, an official told MPs … Read more