Category Archives: Shares

Share: Facebook AI Reading, Watching More Than Ever

More news on the artificial intelligence “AI backbone” helping engineers at Facebook. From the Tech Insider summary: Filtering the News Feed: There are potentially thousands of stories that could be shown to you in the News Feed at a given moment, and the company uses AI to learn from what you like and show you… Read More »

Share: Advertisers Will Lose $7.2 Billion Globally To Bots In 2016

From a post by Statista’s Dyfed Loesche, this chart shows opinions on combating bot fraud in online advertising: Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/4590/cambaing-ad-bots/ Report from the Association of National Advertisers: The Bot Baseline: Fraud in Digital Advertising Advertisers will lose $7.2 billion globally to bots in 2016 … Data was collected over 61 days from August 1 to… Read More »

Share: ‘Citizen Journalism’ Craze Is Back

App works as an “Uber-ization” tool to turn everyone into paid journalists, much as Uber turned many into taxi drivers. User-generated content has been slowly creeping into newscasts for years, but now Fox Television Stations is aiming to accelerate the practice with an app that lets the station group assign citizen journalists to happenings about… Read More »

Share: Flash Is Dead (Yeah, I Know Already)

(Editor’s Note: A thousand years ago, I was a Flash developer. I have hundreds of .fla project files languishing in hard drives at home. You young kids take your AJAX and Responsive Design and iOS SDK and GET OFF MY DAMN LAWN. – Stanton) From a post by Statista’s Felix Richter: Google has announced yesterday… Read More »

Share: Most Spam Messages Originate in the U.S.

About 55 percent of all e-mails sent worldwide are unwanted ad or spam mails, according to security software business Kaspersky. The United States are the biggest source of spam, accounting for 15.2 percent of global spam traffic. Russia was in second place (6.2 percent) with Vietnam and China sharing third place (6.1 percent). The positive… Read More »

Share: Jeffrey Dvorkin’s Uber-ization of Journalism

Jeffrey Dvorkin is a former management leader at CBC Radio and NPR in Washington, DC. His ire at technology highlighted some interesting points on the state of digital consequences. Media managers are wondering what went wrong. They are asking why journalism doesn’t pay any more. If the solutions are hard to discern, they have only… Read More »

Share: comScore Top 50 for January 2016

RESTON, VA, February 24, 2016 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) today released its monthly ranking of U.S. online activity at the top digital media properties for January 2016 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix® and Media Metrix Multi-Platform services. Google Sites ranked as the top multi-platform property with 245.2 million unique visitors/viewers across… Read More »

Share: Millennial Consumer Study Finds Blogs Dominate Influence; Legacy Media Dead

From the report’s summary: “Elite Daily, the voice of Generation Y, and Millennial Branding, a Generation Y research and consulting firm, today announced the results of a new study entitled, ‘The Millennial Consumer’. Unlike prior generations, millennials rely mostly on blogs (33% selected them as their top media source) before they make a purchase. Fewer… Read More »