YouTube Offers iOS SharePlay, Higher-Quality Videos, Other Features For Premium Subscribers by Colin Kirkland , April 10, 2023 YouTube Premium is adding new offerings for subscribers, including higher 1080p HD video quality, an expanded co-watching experience for FaceTime via iOS SharePlay, and more precise queuing options for mobile users. For $11.99 a month, subscribers using … Continue reading YouTube Offers iOS SharePlay, Higher-Quality Videos, Other Features For Premium Subscribers
Pinterest Offers Advertisers New Ways To Target Eco-Friendly Users by Colin Kirkland , March 29, 2023 Pinterest claims that protecting the environment is shaping the way consumers are buying. In preparation for Earth Day, the image-sharing social service is dishing out tips for how advertisers can incorporate sustainability messaging into their Pinterest ads, based on … Continue reading Pinterest Offers Advertisers New Ways To Target Eco-Friendly Users
OpenAI’s new GPT-4 can understand both text and image inputs Andrew Tarantola @terrortola Hot on the heels of Google’s Workspace AI announcement Tuesday, and ahead of Thursday’s Microsoft Future of Work event, OpenAI has released the latest iteration of its generative pre-trained transformer system, GPT-4. Whereas the current generation GPT-3.5, which powers OpenAI’s wildly … Continue reading Duolingo’s Max plan offers AI tutoring for $30 per month
TikTok search results are reportedly swarming with misinformation Jon Fingas @jonfingas While TikTok is no stranger to fighting misinformation, the problem might be worse than you think. As the AP reports, internet trust researchers at NewsGuard have published a report claiming that almost 20 percent of sampled search results for major news topics included … Continue reading TikTok now offers a feed dedicated to science and tech
DoubleVerify Offers One Solution For CTV’s ‘TV Off’ Measurement Issue by Karlene Lukovitz @KLmarketdaily, February 17, 2023 DoubleVerify — the advertising measurement company that identified last year that one in four CTV environments and apps continue to play ads when TVs are turned off — is now offering what it describes as the first scalable … Continue reading DoubleVerify Offers One Solution For CTV’s ‘TV Off’ Measurement Issue
Apple’s larger HomePod returns with upgraded audio and more smart home tools Billy Steele Apple discontinued its original HomePod smart speaker in 2021, choosing instead to focus on the cheaper mini version of the device. Today, the company has resurrected the bigger unit with several notable updates along the way, including upgraded audio, … Continue reading Apple now offers less for some iPhone trade-ins
Shoppers Want Email Offers Before The Holidays, Social Media Is Second by Ray Schultz , September 21, 2022 Email is the preferred channel for 35% of consumers approaching this holiday season. And 38% say email is most likely to catch their attention, according to Optimove’s 2022 Consumer Holiday Retail Shopping Survey. Social media is a distant … Continue reading Shoppers Want Email Offers Before The Holidays, Social Media Is Second
By Clint Rainey September 07, 2022 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is ordering Credit Karma, the free personal-credit monitoring site, to pay $3 million to users who received “false ‘pre-approved’ credit card offers” that ended up hurting their credit scores. The agency filed a complaint alleging that from February 2018 to April 2021, Credit … Continue reading Credit Karma might owe you money over fake ‘pre-approved’ card offers: Here’s how to find out
Things Are Looking Up: Firm Offers Reverse Lookups For LinkedIn Accounts by Ray Schultz , Columnist, August 30, 2022 The old direct-marketing business had several schemes for finding B2B prospects. You could rent a list, do a reverse phone lookup and hope that the person was still at their job and wouldn’t be annoyed when … Continue reading Things Are Looking Up: Firm Offers Reverse Lookups For LinkedIn Accounts
The Justice Department is believed to want much more significant changes. Constantine von Hoffman on July 11, 2022 Google is offering to spinoff its adtech unit to avert a possible federal antitrust lawsuit. However, the suggested change would only move the division to parent company Alphabet — not sell it off entirely, The Wall Street … Continue reading Google offers adtech unit changes to fend off antitrust lawsuit
