Category: Shenanigans

Very damning article about Amazon. This website continues to impress.

“Utilizing a technology known ad “shadowfencing” that combines a GPS-integrated geofence that serves display ads programmatically to mobile devices,” Which sounds very cute and all but there are

An Illustrated Five-Step Guide, by Jørgen Veisdal @ Medium “Market concentration enables Amazon to get away with it. If there were a viable alternative to the Amazon Marketplace in

I believe this was first published a couple years ago in Duh Magazine. “In one instance, Amazon employees accessed documents and data about a bestselling car-trunk organizer sold

Ad Age link, with reg wall. But I’ve been saying this for a long time: influencer marketing is a scam.

“Aside from a €50 million fine that France’s privacy regulator imposed on Google in January, there have been no fines or remedies levied at a U.S. giant since

I’ve always been of the opinion that journalism was killed by three things: (1) 24 hour TV News cycle, leaving little time for critical thought or analysis; (b)

Breathless, artfully anecdotal unsourced boo-yaa masquerading as analysis, but they do make some good points. There are a few ventures into comprehensiveness, but ultimately as a takedown you

Answer: “Don’t worry. It’s a rhetorical question. Nielsen does NOT have a panel bot problem.” Cutsie-pie intro, light-heat takedown of ad fraud in digital, old turf with no

“There’s some very odd stuff going on,” said Chloe Grutchfield, co-founder of RedBud, which has developed a tool to audit compliance on behalf of publishers clients. “Completely fake