The Federal Trade Commission yesterday filed its long-awaited anti-trust suit against Amazon, charging the company with oodles of anti-competitive actions to maintain an illegal monopoly. Seventeen state attorneys general joined the fun. Feel free to read the 172-page filing and compose a summary haiku.
Remember when TVs were something you watched? Those days are long gone; not only are TVs watching back, but they’re interacting with you in a friendly yet Big Brother-ish sort of way. The reason, of course, is to sell more valuable advertising. Samsung Ads just upped its interactive ad game by working with Brightline to allow live and personalized ads, polls, trivia, and scrollable carousels.
Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content. But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines. Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results. We’ll see if competitors do the same.
Email and mobile personalization platform Movable Ink has announced a new integration between its Da Vinci content personalization solution and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Joint customers will be able to develop content assets aimed at each individual email recipient and bring them into Adobe Journey Optimizer for deployment. This builds on an existing integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign.