Last week delivered a string of record-breaking earnings reports from Silicon Valley’s biggest companies as outsized profit margins demonstrated just how big Big Tech has become. This chart from Axios best illustrates the incredible surge tech companies Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, and Microsoft have seen in recent months across income and market valuation. In today’s post, […]
The latest tech earnings provided greater insight into how brands are prioritizing digital platforms to drive growth and engage with customers. Today’s briefing features a round-up of what we learned from Amazon’s, Facebook’s, and Google’s earnings reports. Amazon’s Ad Business Generates Nearly $7 Billion a Quarter During Amazon’s earnings report last week, Amazon recorded its […]
The U.S. House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee wrapped up its nearly 16-month bipartisan inquiry into the market power of some of the tech industry’s largest companies earlier this month. We’ve created a simplified overview of the staff report, the conclusions reached, and what is likely to happen next. Investigating Big Tech’s Market Power After several high-profile […]
I hope you had a refreshing few days watching Hamilton and illegal fireworks. It’s a slower week than normal on the world stage, so let’s jump in. The second lockdown Markets rollercoaster The week ahead The second lockdown The cat’s out of the bag and America is facing an unanticipated surge in cases, and likely […]
PMG recently provided insightful commentary on a couple of new developments aimed towards TV and digital advertisers. In a Mobile Marketer article about Comcast’s NBCUniversal rollout of ads that let viewers use their smartphones to buy products featured in shows they are watching, PMG’s Price Glomski compared the offering to the growing prevalence of the […]
In an unprecedented move, Facebook’s now-infamous leak resulted in the public getting front-row seats to a weekly internal Q&A at the social media titan last week. There was a lot to unpack in both the audio leak from July and the livestream, but at a high level, here’s what I found most interesting and took […]
That is the question AdExchanger tries to answer today through a round-up story with insights from various industry experts, including PMG’s Carly Carson. Earlier this week, Facebook launched the latest products in its Portal hardware suite, including TV streaming sticks, an 8-inch Portal, and an improved 10-inch model). The products go a long way to […]
With Facebook seemingly in the news daily about its actions and plans around ad targeting and data privacy, it was inevitable that insiders would start to speculate about any potential draft faced by Instagram, given how closely linked the two platforms are. AdExchanger has published a story about what might happen with Instagram and called […]
Announced last week, Facebook’s new Off-Facebook Activity tool will give each user a summary of the third-party websites and apps that share a user’s visit history information with Facebook; allowing people the opportunity to clear that history from their account if they choose to. This feature was announced last year, but given additional recommendations from […]
It’s Okay to Start From Scratch The announcement of the new facebook.com came with plenty of cool new features and ideas (see here). But, the most impactful idea I grasped onto was that it’s okay to start from scratch sometimes. Whether it be a technical or client project, we often find ourselves so deep into […]