And if you want Internet-quality evidence that big tech is aiming for total social control, check out this 2016 video from Google. They say it’s just a thought experiment. But that’s what you’d expect them to say.
Mobile advertising is hot: mobile accounted for 57% all digital ad revenue in 2017, according to a study from Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Mobile grew at 36% while all of digital grew 21% to reach $88 billion. Spend on mobile video alone was $6.2 billion, also more than half the video total of $11.9 billion.
More bad news: when CRM vendor SuperOffice signed up anonymously to 1,000 B2B email lists, 59% of the companies sent nothing within 90 days. Other worst practices: 8% lacked an unsubscribe link, 9% sent emails after an unsubscribe attempt and 18% were not mobile-friendly.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.