Mediagazer: Black Lives Matter supporters are using YouTube's AdSense tools to generate donations, uploading lengthy videos with frequent ads and donating any revenue (Tre Vayne/OneZero)

7:55 AM ET, June 11, 2020

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Tre Vayne / OneZero:

Black Lives Matter supporters are using YouTube's AdSense tools to generate donations, uploading lengthy videos with frequent ads and donating any revenue — In — the early 2010s, in the wake of the Moldovan parliamentary election protests and Occupy Wall Street, digital observers coined the term …

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Ben Sisario / New York Times:

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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:

Publishers using Google AdSense say they are being penalized by Google's Confirmed Clicks, which, sources say, can reduce programmatic ad revenue by 40-60% — Publishers are once again caught in the crosshairs of Google's quest to clean up the open web. — Over the last six months …

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