Inside China's phony 'click farm': Tiny office uses 10,000 handsets to send fake ratings and 'likes' for boosting clients' online popularity Footage has emerged of a giant 'click farm' in which thousands of phones are used to boost product ratings with phony 'likes'....
Internet Ad Revenues Surge, Two Companies Get the Spoils
by Wolf Richter • Apr 26, 2017 The big shift to mobile advertising. It’s not all careening downhill, at least not for everyone – or at least not for the biggest two: Google and Facebook. More on our two heroes in a moment. Internet advertising revenues in the US...
Estimates for Snap’s ad revenue have been cut, and shares just hit a post-debut low
Snapchat maker Snap Inc. is still expected to exponentially grow its ad revenue in 2017, but not quite as much as originally expected. A new report from eMarketer on Tuesday slashed Snap's ad revenue projections from $800 million to $770 million, a $30 million...
Paid social and search ads drive more clicks
Paid ads on search engines and social networks account for a bigger share of e-retail traffic, Hitwise says. That Amazon.com Inc. dominated e-commerce during the recent holiday season will surprise few retailers. But Hitwise traffic data also reveals some less obvious...
Off The Quad Launches at Indiana University – New Digital Media Company Expands College Lifestyle
Greenwood Village, Colo. – Off The Quad, a new digital media company honing in on the college lifestyle, announced the launch of its free, email-based publication at Indiana University yesterday. Catering to college students between the ages of 18 and 35, the...
Is the Internet finally killing TV?
Reprinted from the Christian Science Monitor Is this the summer that the Internet finally kills television as we once knew it? Most industry observers are stopping short of that prediction, citing some significant hurdles still in the way. But the growing number of...