scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:

An Oral-B login screen.

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton Literally every company now

Literally every company now

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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

A picture of a TV showing a fullscreen takeover ad on Xbox Series X for Doom: The Dark Ages. The ad requires the user to interact with it to close it

Ugh, full-screen takeover ad for the new Doom game as soon as I turned on my xbox last night. I had to interact with it to get to the home screen. First time I've ever seen this

Nice, I got Google to hallucinate a completely made up Springsteen song

Google Isn’t Launching A User Choice Prompt For Third-Party Cookies In Chrome | AdExchanger You know that choice mechanism that Google said it was planning to release for third-party cookies in Chrome? Well, it’s not happening.

Looks like Google completely backtracked on killing third-party cookies in Chrome!

The user choice mechanism Google teased last year is kaput. And Google won't be unilaterally depreciating third-party cookies in Chrome. So it looks like cookies are here to stay

www.adexchanger.com/data-privacy...

Publishers Feel Seen At The Google Ad Tech Antitrust Trial | AdExchanger Publishers were encouraged to see the DOJ highlight Google’s stranglehold on the ad server market and its attempts to weaken header bidding.

I previously covered publisher concerns about Google’s SSP/ad server setup and the benefits of breaking that up here:

www.adexchanger.com/publishers/p...

Google Is Found Guilty Of Operating An Ad Tech Monopoly (!) | AdExchanger Judge Leonie Brinkema rules: Google has been found guilty in US v. Google of having monopolized two online advertising markets.

The ad tech verdict of the century is in: Google has an illegal monopoly in ad tech

Court ruled the company has taken illegal action to consolidate control of the SSP and ad server market and illegally tied its SSP and ad server together

www.adexchanger.com/platforms/go...

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Checking in on CNBC this morning

Is it good when this is what Fox Business is playing on a loop?

Keith "Brand Safety" Hernandez

Tfw when you agree to share your data

Here's more about the Netflix Ads Suite from Nicolle Pangis, in case you missed it:

www.adexchanger.com/tv/meet-the-...

Consumer Reports statement on unprecedented White House firing of two FTC commissioners - CR Advocacy The dismissal of two FTC officials undermines the independence of the FTC, leaving consumers at risk  Washington, DC –  The White House today announced the…

From @consumerreports.org: The dismissal of two FTC officials undermines the independence of the FTC, leaving consumers at risk.

FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.

SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI.

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NAS is coming...

Netflix's Nicolle Pangis just revealed the name of Neflix's in-house ad platform: the Netflix Ad Suite, or NAS for short (because ad tech demands acronyms)

AdExchanger Executive Editor Sarah Sluis got the news first at #CTVConnect