The Face(book) of Online Privacy’s Future
The big Mark Zuckerberg takeout in New York magazine is getting lots of attention, but even more interesting (for Sneak ADtacknauts) is this sidebar, headlined “No, Facebook Has Not Already Peaked.”...
View ArticleSmartads Imitate Smartphones
The whole concept behind stealth marketing is to have your ads masquerade as something else. In the latest case, the Wall Street Journal reports, it’s social media campaigns mimic Smartphone pix. Why...
View ArticleAn Email from Facebook? That Can’t Be Good (III)
All this week the hardtracking staff has been on Facebook like Brown on Williamson. And here’s more fallout from The Grate Facebook Email that changes the site from a sort-of democracy to a flatout...
View ArticleCall It Instascram
It started out as the classic Facebook privacy dance: two steps forward, one step back. From CNET this morning, via The Daily Beast: Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos In its...
View ArticleMike Allen Takes Capital Playbook to Dark Side
Fact #1 (via Adweek): Politico’s Allbritton Buys Capital New York The subscription approach to news is getting a significant boost, with Politico owner Robert Allbritton buying Capital New York with...
View ArticleOh My Lord & Taylor! Retail Chain Caught Cheating!
The hardtracking staff has long decried the proliferation of blogola, but now we’re seeing new depths of pay-to-bray. Exhibit Umpteen from Erika Adams at Racked.com: Lord & Taylor’s Uber-Successful...
View ArticleInstagram Fesses Up to Instascamming Users
Turns out it’s not a pretty picture at Instagram. The wholly owned subsidiary of Facebook (a bargain at $1 billion five years ago) is the mobile equivalent of three-ad monte, allowing sponsored posts...
View ArticleFTC Tells Influencers – Again – to Come Clean
As the hardtracking staff noted two years ago, the Federal Trade Commission has been chasing the paid posts of social-media influencers like Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner. Turns out it’s not...
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