Facebook Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/facebook/ Advertising News and Know-How Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:54:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.adpulp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-adpulp-logo-reddark-grey-32x32.png Facebook Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/facebook/ 32 32 29582147 No Humans Needed: Machines Will Make and Distribute the Ads https://www.adpulp.com/no-humans-needed-machines-will-make-and-distribute-the-ads/ https://www.adpulp.com/no-humans-needed-machines-will-make-and-distribute-the-ads/#respond Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:17:06 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=40169 Meta is an advertising-fueled juggernaut. Its fourth quarter income was $48.39 billion, up 21% from the prior year. The company is minting money, and recently, Mark Zuckerberg said his company plans to further disrupt the advertising business with AI-assisted automation. According to two articles in The Guardian, Facebook’s new AI-powered tools will autogenerate an entire […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/no-humans-needed-machines-will-make-and-distribute-the-ads/feed/ 0 40169 When Content Degrades and Distracts, Advertising Suffers Too https://www.adpulp.com/when-content-degrades-and-distracts-advertising-suffers-too/ https://www.adpulp.com/when-content-degrades-and-distracts-advertising-suffers-too/#respond Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:22 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37984 Advertising is a parasite that depends on the blood of its host—news and entertainment content—for its survival. When the body or in this case the media industry is sick, the parasite too will suffer. This is the conclusion, although not the language, of Mike Follett, managing director of eye-tracking company Lumen Research (and a former […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/when-content-degrades-and-distracts-advertising-suffers-too/feed/ 0 37984 Meta Is Working On It https://www.adpulp.com/meta-is-working-on-it/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:33:37 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37320 Most of us know what we want from Facebook. Family updates and sensational fake news! No, what we want is reform from within and regulation from the federal government. Have we properly considered what the company that owns Facebook wants? The company that owns Facebook wants “updated internet regulations to set clear guidelines for addressing […]

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]]> 37320 Facebook Rebrands, The Company Is Now Known As ‘Meta’ https://www.adpulp.com/facebook-rebrands-the-company-is-now-known-as-meta/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:01:04 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37294 Remember Second Life? Facebook didn’t buy it, but now the social networking behemoth wants to become it. This is not a joke. Facebook has changed its company name to Meta. The word ‘Facebook’ now refers to just the social networking application and site. Meta was chosen as the new name because it points to Mark […]

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]]> 37294 Facebook Foibles and the Media Megaphone Mess https://www.adpulp.com/facebook-foibles-and-the-media-megaphone-mess/ Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:40:40 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37248 Facebook is under fire from all directions. Former employees are venting. The press is screaming. The federal government seeks to break the company’s monopolistic hold. And we the people just want to scroll—something that was denied to billions of addicted users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp for more than seven hours on Monday. In the […]

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]]> 37248 Are We Profoundly Misinformed? It Must Be Someone Else’s Fault https://www.adpulp.com/are-we-profoundly-misinformed-it-must-be-someone-elses-fault/ Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:31:53 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37139 Are we, the people, adrift in a sea of digital flotsam? Joseph Bernstein, a 2021 Nieman Fellow, has written a thought-provoking piece for Harper’s. He believes we are profoundly misinformed about social media’s role in keeping us misinformed. Bernstein points to a 2019 Pew survey, showing that half of Americans think that made-up news/info is […]

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]]> 37139 Will Marketers Stop Funding Media Garbage Masquerading As News? https://www.adpulp.com/will-marketers-stop-funding-media-garbage-masquerading-as-news/ Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:10:38 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=36393 Faux News agreed to pay millions of dollars to the family of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staff member who was murdered in Washington, D.C. in 2016. As part of the legal settlement, the details of the case were kept quiet until after the election and the resounding defeat of Don Trump. Ben Smith, […]

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]]> 36393 In Fight to Diminish Apple, Facebook Runs Attack Ads, Creates New Microsite https://www.adpulp.com/in-fight-to-diminish-apple-facebook-runs-attack-ads-creates-new-microsite/ Tue, 22 Dec 2020 13:04:24 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=36281 Facebook versus Apple. The battle of the tech titans is on. According to Facebook, “Apple announced product and policy changes that will impact data sharing across iOS. The policy and the limits it places on advertising will harm the growth of businesses and the free internet.” Here’s the interpretation of the above in a full-page […]

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]]> 36281 No “Country” for Holocaust Deniers or Other Factless Conspirators https://www.adpulp.com/no-country-for-holocaust-deniers-or-other-factless-conspirators/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 23:55:44 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=35560 Haters are having a hard time pumping the socials full of hate, right now. No, their venomous fangs have not gone dry. Social media platforms are starting to enforce their own codes of conduct. Accountability—it’s not just for breakfast anymore. F to the B Finally Tells Holocaust Deniers to Shove Off Monika Bickert, VP of […]

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]]> 35560 Facebook Is A Multi-Way Mirror; What You Put In Front Of It, Determines What You Get Back https://www.adpulp.com/facebook-is-a-multi-way-mirror-what-you-put-in-front-of-it-determines-what-you-get-back/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:00:29 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=35077 Is Facebook the doom machine? The Social Dilemma, a new documentary-like film from Netflix, makes the case. One of the technologists in the film, Jaron Lanier, makes the case (in the film and in many other instances). To varying degrees, we all make our cases against F to the B. Some of us quit the […]

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