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Children’s Privacy: Gloves come off in Meta battle against TikTok for young users

All’s fair, it seems, when trying to boost the number of kids using Facebook. That all-important goal has prompted parent company Meta to orchestrate a nationwide – and sometimes deceptive campaign to take down (or at least hobble) its biggest global competitor, TikTok. According to The Washington Post, this effort led by Targeted Victory, a political consulting firm, includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor in newspapers – and even lobbying to present TikTok as a danger to American children and society. And, while TikTok has had its own privacy issues to address, this raises children’s data brinksmanship for business gain to a sordid new level.

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Temperature check of email marketing finds healthy open rate following Apple MPP

April 5, 2022

A HubSpot poll of 300 emailers found that, despite previous alarm that Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection and iOS 15 changes would take a massive toll on open rates (and email marketing overall), the impact has been quite moderate. In fact, 47% were neutral about it, and the rest split almost evenly – with 29% negative, and 24% who felt it was actually positive. However, those that reported it positively were also more likely to be leveraging channels other than email for marketing.

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YouTube Testing AI Overviews in Search Results

April 28, 2025

YouTube is not just a video platform, of course, it’s also a powerful search engine and it has begun testing a Google AI Overviews carousel that will appear in results for selected queries. Given the threat AI Overviews is perceived to pose to click-thru traffic in Google Search results, there’s a question about whether the YouTube initiative could depress click-thrus to brand and creator videos. Right now, the feature is only visible to a sub-set of U.S. premium users.

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