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- Meta is pressing a judge to reject Amherst University professor Ethan Zuckerman's request for an order preventing the company from suing over "Unfollow Everything 2.0" -- a tool designed to study how Facebook's algorithms affect people's health.
- Microsoft's AI Trace research project introduces a new approach to training and automatically optimizing AI-run systems, with the possibility to optimize ad delivery, recommendations, fraud detection, and more.
- Amherst University professor Ethan Zuckerman's request for a court order preventing Meta from suing over a research tool is premature because the tool hasn't yet been launched, Meta argues.
- A professor is seeking court approval to study the impact of Facebook's algorithms on users' well-being.
- How did TaxAct find that it could radically reduce media costs and still maintain the same level of conversions? By stepping away from the promises of so-called precision targeting and retargeting, bringing its media in-house, and re-booting its strategy to start with broader audiences and then letting the platform algorithms help. TaxAct's Head of Media, Amy Bartle, shares what they learned from their journey.
- A research study explored the complexity of bidding environments and how current solutions perform for advertisers.
- A Google research paper on TW-BERT describes how a new framework improves search rankings without requiring major changes because it integrates with existing query expansion models and improves performance.
- The chief marketing application is behavioral segmentation, Sprout Social reports.
- Urban streetwear brand SikSilk experienced a 25% increase in ecommerce purchases from on-site search and a 36% decline in site abandonment after implementing AI-powered site search technology.
- NP Digital's research paper outlines findings from anonymous data collected by the company's platforms from Ubersuggest, and Answer The Public. It shows how trends like changes in Google's algorithms and product updates in 2022 with change the industry in 2023. It also looks at changes that Microsoft made to cement it's resurgence in advertising.
- But consumers aren't as particular about how they get bad news -- they are equally unhappy with man and machine, Wharton marketing professor Stefano Puntoni writes.
- AdTheorent Health recently announced the launch of Predictive Audiences for the healthcare industry. It allows programmatic advertisers to target audiences in a more precise, data-driven and less opaque manner than previously possible.
- "Algorithms are profiling children and teens to serve them images, memes and videos encouraging restrictive diets and extreme weight loss," Fairplay says in a new report.
- The research aims to help teens, parents and caregivers make informed choices when using technology, and establish neuroscience behind the narrative on social media's impact on adolescent mental health.
- Pinterest is furthering its investment in developing an "inspired content and shopping ecosystem" that allows advertisers to personalize experiences through advertising products and research.
- The study revealed that a 29% pay gap currently exists between white and BIPOC influencers and an even higher pay gap of 35% exists between white and Black influencers.
- Bias has become a challenge of technology. Consumers and policymakers have concerns about how AI, machine learning and the bias in algorithms might impact society.
- On the heels of a former Facebook product manager's disclosures, a new study finds 58% of U.S. adults say social media harms mental health.
- The report, "Data Capitalism + Algorithmic Racism," however, provides policy recommendations to solve the problem.
- The MRC Wednesday disclosed new milestones in the evolution of ad and media measurement standards, including the role of algorithms and the status of outcome measurement.
- A study of local ad agencies across the country by Borrell Associates found that 17% are now using TikTok -- "more than double" what Borrell found in its survey six months ago.
- Criteo participated in Google's first FLoC Origin Trial in an effort to understand the audience cohorts. The Yandex browser also creates FLoC cohorts.
- Twitter last week launched a competition for computer researchers and hackers to identify biases in its image-cropping algorithm, after a group of researchers found the algorithm tended to exclude Black people and men.
- Yelp SVP/head of national sales Tom Foran has more than 20 years of experience in digital media and continues to identify changes in business based on company-aggregated data. And he has been pretty accurate.
- TV stations must strike out on their own to bolster new sources of revenue, especially with new locally and regionally based OTT operations.
- 2021 is the year of experience for Google. YouTube doesn't seem to follow the same standard (completely), according to Searchmetrics data.
- The USC research, conducted on Facebook and LinkedIn, found that one platform's algorithms discriminate by gender, whereas no evidence was found on the other.
- The AI Standards Working Group, co-chaired by IBM Watson Advertising and Nielsen, has released a guide on Ai and machine learning for execs, marketers, and technologists. Bias is one key topic the group will address based on feedback from industry participants.
- A study of reactions to a video ad found that while sadness decreased sharing, other emotions like disgust slightly increased it. Emotion-provoking ads can create performance, though not in the traditional sense. Emotions also can make an ad go viral, and entice consumers to latch on to the brand for life.
- A study of YouTube video rankings in Google reveals how often YouTube videos are top-ranked in Google search results, and major differences in Google's and YouTube's ranking algorithms.
