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YouTube Brings Unskippable 30-Second Commercials to Your TV
YouTube TV is getting a little bit of an advertising shakeup. The company announced at the YouTube Brandcast event yesterday that it would be adding unskippable 30-second ads to the YouTube platform as viewed on televisions.
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YouTube Is Forcing Some Users to Disable Adblockers
YouTube is prompting some users to switch off their browsers’ ad blockers. If they refuse, they can’t watch the videos.
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Facebook’s Ad System Went Nuts and Charged Customers for Ads No One Saw
Facebook’s advertising system went haywire starting around 2 am on Sunday morning, charging marketers extra money for ads that no one saw. Reports suggest Meta, the social network’s parent company, charged some advertisers more than double what they agreed to pay, ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meta briefly took part of…
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Google Stock Drops as Samsung Considers Switching Its Devices to Bing
Bing could be taking over as the default search engine on Samsung devices thanks to its integration of ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence features. The shift would mark the first time in 12 years that Samsung has strayed away from Google, which has historically dominated the search engine market.





