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Behind the fake traffic schemes using bots for fraudulent ad clicks that will cost advertisers $6.3B this year — The Fake Traffic Schemes That Are Rotting the Internet — Marketers thought the Web would allow perfectly targeted ads. Hasn't worked out that way.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mail Online reports digital ad revenue growth of 16% in 11 months to end of August, compared to 49% for same period last year — Mail Online digital advertising slows down to 16% annual growth — Mail Online has reported digital advertising growth of 16% in the 11 months to the end of August …
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ITProPortal, Financial Times, Express & Star, @jayrosen_nyu, The Drum, Telegraph and @marksweney
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
iOS ad blocker Crystal will get a flat monthly fee to let through ads that are on Adblock Plus owner Eyeo's paid whitelist — Propelled By Apple, Ad Blocking Cottage Industry Emerges — Software promises to block ads, and in some cases allow “acceptable” ones
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The Awl, @eringriffith, @eringriffith, @moral_hazard, The Verge and Fortune
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
ONA receives $800K Knight Foundation grant to expand programs for local journalists — ONA will expand its programs for local journalists with Knight funding — The Online News Association plans to make a push into local with new funding from Knight Foundation.
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Journalism.co.uk and Poynter
Arunabh Saikia / Newslaundry:
Times Group codifies how journalists are to create and use Twitter accounts, source says part of salary will be linked to Twitter performance — The Times Group now says journalists' salaries will be linked to their Twitter activity — Last year in August, the Times Group asked its employees …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
An insiders take on the partial relaunch of Gigaom, six months after the original shut down — How Gigaom died and then came back to life again, kind of — On a Monday night in March, Gigaom, the site where I'd worked for four years, abruptly shut down.
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@tomkrazit and @laurahazardowen
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Politico introduces paid-for ‘professional’ subscription services to Europe five months after launch — Politico has launched a paid subscriptions for Europe five months after moving to the continent. — The title, which launched a Europe edition in Brussels early this year in collaboration …
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Trump's understanding of the political media is better than his competitors, but the outsized attention he is getting is creating political momentum — The media's Trump conundrum — Donald Trump was telling the truth. “It's a simple formula in entertainment and television,” …
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New York Times, @ron_fournier, @deechteooms, @shannonpareil and @daviduberti
Tyler Falk / Current.org:
WGBH to acquire international news website GlobalPost — WGBH in Boston announced Thursday that it has finalized plans to acquire the international news website GlobalPost. — The acquisition of the Boston-based outlet is intended to bolster the international reporting of WGBH's Public Radio International.
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PRI, USA Today, PR Newswire, GlobalPost, Poynter and @rafat
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Literary magazine The American Reader to shutter — The American Reader, the three-year old literary magazine that prompted excited buzz at its 2012 launch and seemed to buck expectations for the prospects for publishing highbrow journals in print, is shutting down after its October issue, POLITICO has learned.
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The American Reader, FishbowlNY and bookforum.com
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
ThinkProgress to Unionize With Writers Guild of America — The news website ThinkProgress said on Wednesday that it would unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East, becoming the latest digital media outlet to organize in recent months seeking better pay and working conditions.
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The Huffington Post, Variety, Gawker, FishbowlNY, The Daily Caller, @patrick_speaks and @andbrei
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
FanDuel acquires eSports fantasy platform AlphaDraft, which will continue operating — FanDuel Acquires eSports Company AlphaDraft, Also Jumps Into Competitive Video Gaming — Aren't business rivalries fun? — Just one day after fantasy sports site DraftKings announced …
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Forbes, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, HEITNER LEGAL and Wall Street Journal
Victoria Ward / Telegraph:
UK cinema staff to use night-vision goggles in screenings of James Bond film in piracy crackdown — Staff to patrol cinemas in night-vision goggles in a crackdown on piracy as new James Bond film is released — Security will be beefed up across the country as experts vow to catch criminals …
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Engadget, Digital Spy, International Business Times, Ubergizmo, The Independent, Gizmodo UK, TorrentFreak and Guardian
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