Motsepe Advertising Wins Top Media Agency at 2025 Top 16 Youth-Owned Brands Awards

Motsepe Advertising has announced that it has been awarded Top Media Agency at the 2025 Top 16 Youth-Owned Brands Awards (YOBA), an honour that celebrates South Africa's most impactful youth-led brands across 16 industries. Chosen from over 2 000...

Elon Musk Says X Will Charge Advertisers By Screen Size To Curb 'Giant Ads' That Hurt User Experience

Elon Musk announced that X will transition to charging advertisers based on vertical screen size, marking a significant shift in the platform’s revenue strategy as the company works to restore advertising income to pre-acquisition levels. What...

Radio, TV Lag Mobile, Direct Mail and Banner Ads In Florida

“Florida’s local advertising landscape is flourishing this year,” boasts BIA VP of Sales Christina Hurley, who led a presentation at the Florida Association of Broadcasters annual convention illustrating a healthy increase in total local...

Drummond urges Meta to protect users from scam investment ads

Attorney General Gentner Drummond has called on Meta Platforms Inc. to protect consumers from fraudulent pump-and-dump investment ads appearing on Facebook. Drummond and 41 other state and territory attorneys general sent a letter to Meta earlier...

Huge Victory! Two Major Advertising Firms Pledge to FTC to “Cease All Coordination Against Political and Religious Viewpoints”

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson This week, the Federal Trade Commission under the leadership of Chairman Andrew Ferguson secured a monumental agreement among two of the leading global advertising firms that could have significant...

Advertise Crypto Projects Like a Pro: Choosing The Best Crypto Advertising Networks in 2025

The web3 space is so Jam-packed that having a slick project isn’t going to get you in the game. You’ve got to advertise crypto projects the right way, connect with the right audience and build trust because everyone and their grandma’s dog has a...

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Bills to stop ADS-B misuse introduced in Congress

The bills, S.2175 and H.4146, were introduced June 26 by Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.), respectively. The bills seek to do the following: Prohibit the use of ADS-B data to assist in the collection of fees from pilots or...

Google Offerwall will let you bypass paywalls by viewing ads and taking surveys

Publishers are once again at odds with Google — this time over AI-powered content summaries showing up right in search results. Google's shift toward AI-first search might make things faster for users, but it's throwing a wrench into how...

Why omnichannel advertising needs gaming at its core

At a time when audience attention is increasingly difficult to hold, brands that incorporate gaming into their omnichannel strategies enjoy a significant advantage. A robust omnichannel approach meets consumers where they are with consistent,...

Seedtag’s Nik Kontoulas: Blunt, Automated Tools Perpetuate Advertising’s Brand Safety Problem

Brand safety issues in advertising persist due to the industry’s reliance on “blunt, automated tools,” according to Nik Kontoulas, managing director of Seedtag ANZ. Kontoulas said that existing solutions, such as keyword blocklists and domain...

Elon Musk says hashtags will be banned from ads on X starting tomorrow: ‘Esthetic nightmare’

Accounts on X will no longer be able to use hashtags from tomorrow on their advertisements, the microblogging platform's CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday. Calling hashtags an ‘esthetic nightmare’, Musk said that the ban will be implemented from...

SYRON: Misleading diabetes ads on social media pose a serious health risk

Breadcrumb Trail Links Columnists Published Jun 26, 2025 • Last updated 3 hours ago • 3 minute read A woman uses a lancet on her finger to check blood sugar level by glucose meter. Photo by stock image /file photo A recent surge in misleading ads...

The End of #Sponsored? Musk Bans Hashtags in X Ads

Elon Musk is shaking up X (formerly Twitter) once again, this time by banning hashtags in advertisements. Starting June 27, 2025, advertisers on the platform will no longer be allowed to include hashtags in their paid posts. The decision, Musk...

Why Every Business Should Try Google Ads for eCommerce?

Share Share Share Share Email In today’s dynamic world of eCommerce, putting the product in front of the correct people at the proper time is the problem and the solution. With numerous online shops competing for attention, most of them selling...

Hashtags to be banned from ads on X, Friday – Elon Musk

Billionaire Tesla CEO and owner of X, Elon Musk, has announced that hashtags will be banned in paid advertisements on X (formerly Twitter) starting Friday, June 27, 2025. Musk made the declaration in a post on the platform, stating, “Starting...

Banning ads is mad and bad

It took Keir Starmer less than a year to dash what few hopes we had of him. There was talk of the Labour Party having more room to manoeuvre on public sector reform than the tentative Tories. It was assumed that the state of the public finances...

Cal Worthington Net Worth 2025: Car Dealerships, Advertising Fame, and Business Legacy

Cal Worthington’s name remains synonymous with innovative car dealership advertising and entrepreneurial success, even more than a decade after his passing in 2013. The legendary car dealer, who transformed from a poverty-stricken Oklahoma farm...

Ad giants ‘silence’ youth-led campaign against junk food advertising

Bite Back’s award-winning anti-junk food advertising campaign has been blocked by JCDecaux and Global, sparking censorship claims from the young activists. Two of the UK’s biggest outdoor media owners have blocked a youth-led anti-junk food...