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Dispatch from an advertising future #188

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/08/study-finds-growing-government-use-of-sensitive-data-to-nudge-behaviour Study finds growing government use of sensitive data to ‘nudge’ behaviour They keep saying we’ve “missed out”. There must be some master timetable somewhere that says “this has to be learned on the third Tuesday in February.” When we didn’t have a class on that third Tuesday, all hell… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertising future #171

https://digiday.com/marketing/google-switch-floc-cookie-replacement-fingerprinting-potential/ We make a big thing of it in my family. The Choosing. To be honest I don’t get to choose, it’s a family thing. Topics are passed down in our family and woe betide you if you try and pick something outside. “Tradition”, I’m reminded. We have this lame… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertising future #170

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https://www.campaignlive.com/article/youtube-launches-shorts-campaign-compete-tiktok/1724457 They’d got used to textspeak. Even those strange little pictures she’d added to everything, they’d learned to read them. A different language but they’d picked it up. They’d had to if they were going to “follow” her. And as parents, that was their responsibility. It wasn’t spying, it was… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertising future #158

https://gizmodo.com/deep-nostalgia-can-now-make-old-photos-of-your-relati-1846620089 I didn’t mind when she smiled. We’d been apart for so long, catching her smile was a reminder of The Before. She’d always been there, her quiet hint of a smile was an acknowledgement, an encouragement. Having her picture on the shelf wasn’t the same as having her here… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertising future #125

https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/news/share-of-search-can-predict-market-share/44232 They’d decided early on to get her one. The more she’d be able to say she knew or at least demonstrate she could find, the better. At the start of New Schooling, they’d been expensive but then the Company offered them for free. Her ‘learning facilitator’ was impressed with… Read the rest

Dispatches from an advertising future #105

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/15/researchers-ready-world-first-vision-restoration-device-for-human-clinical-trials/?guccounter=1 It was his birthday. They remembered the doctor, five years ago. He’d be able to see, she said. The operation was simple and free. The sponsored Glimpses (™) were not invasive, she told them. The Reith act meant they had to “educate, inform or entertain”. And, she said, she… Read the rest