9/30/2024 7:45:58 PM The Next Target of CIPA Litigation: Search Bars By Caren Decter Over the past two years, we have seen an influx of lawsuits asserting that the use of tracking technologies on websites violates the...
7/30/2024 7:49:31 PM Meta Settles Texas Biometric Data Lawsuit for $1.4 Billion By Maria Nava Meta has reached a $1.4 billion settlement to resolve claims brought by the Texas Attorney General. The Attorney General’s office touted...
12/13/2023 5:14:39 PM Whose Ad is it Anyway? NAD Finds “Sponsored” Insufficient Disclosure of Material Connection in Social Posts By Allison Fitzpatrick Alexa Meera Singh Ashley Haripal The FTC recently updated its Endorsement Guides, in part to provide clarity and guidance on sufficient disclosure of material connections...
11/8/2023 2:43:58 PM Meta Says AI Use Must be Disclosed in Political and Social Issue Advertising By Jeff Greenbaum Meta just announced that it is updating its advertising policies to require advertisers to disclose when political, election, or social...
11/7/2023 12:52:49 PM Meta Announces Limits on Advertisers' Use of Its New Generative AI Tools By Jeff Greenbaum Recently, Meta launched new generative AI tools for advertisers. Now, Meta has just announced some limits on the types of advertisers...
10/20/2023 10:52:20 PM California Court Rules Meta Advertising Lawsuit Can Continue By Maria Nava On September 21, 2023, a California appeals court ruled that a lawsuit alleging discrimination against women and older people via Meta’s...
5/22/2023 4:49:37 PM Meta fined record $1.3 billion under GDPR and enjoined from transferring data, threatening all data transfers from EU to US By Daniel Goldberg Today, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) published its long-anticipated decision regarding the legality of Meta’s transfers of...
2/27/2023 4:40:07 PM Update: Competition Appeals Tribunal – Liza Lovdahl Gormsen v Meta Platform Inc. and Others By Johnson Zhuang Introduction We shared our thoughts on the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (“CAT”) hearing in this matter here. The CAT has now released...
2/10/2023 1:03:51 PM Facebook Further Limits Ad Targeting Options for Teens By Jeff Greenbaum Last month, Meta announced that it was taking further steps to limit the ways in which advertisers can target teens. Meta said that it...
10/19/2022 12:26:57 PM Meta Facing up to $25 Million Penalty for Political Ad Transparency Violations By Ariel Radow Washington state’s attorney general filed a motion last week seeking the maximum penalty of $24.6 million in civil penalty against Meta,...
10/17/2022 9:45:31 PM Instagram sees new ad formats emerge! By Gez McGuire Earlier this month (October 2022) Meta announced that it was adding new ad formats to Instagram. Why? Well, as a result of Apple’s...
10/15/2022 12:06:03 PM Facebook is getting ready to face off with TikTok. By Gez McGuire Social media has transformed, and Facebook has to transform along with it. Young adults told Facebook in a survey that they thought it...
9/6/2022 1:10:21 PM Netflix to Ban Crypto Advertising in New Ad-Supported Tier By Jeff Greenbaum When Netflix launches its new ad-supported tier this fall, it won't be accepting cryptocurrency advertising -- as well as advertising in...
8/26/2022 2:22:50 AM Meta Announces New Election-Related Advertising Policies By Jeff Greenbaum Earlier this month, Meta announced updates to its political advertising policies in advance of the midterm elections in the United...
8/24/2022 4:03:54 PM Get ready to see even more posts from accounts you don't follow on Facebook and Instagram. By Gez McGuire Yep, the future of social media is looking less social. If you already experience your Instagram feed increasingly showing Reels from...
8/24/2022 12:52:29 PM Social media ad spend for UK companies greater than the global average! By Gez McGuire A recent study by Emplifi, a unified customer experience (CX) platform, analysed thousands of brands worldwide between 1 April, 2022 - 30...