Last Week in Digital Media

Hey! A happy 4th of July long weekend to my US readers. Here’s your final Last Week in Digital Media and all the news you may have missed. GENERAL according to recent statements from Adam Mosseri, Instagram seems to be on a path to become more like TikTok, with plans to show full-screen recommended videos […]

Hello Welcome to your Last Week in Digital Media. Before the general news, the big news comes from Google. Google has decided to delay the phase-out of 3rd party cookies at least until 2023. This extends the life of 3rd party cookies by two (2) years, along with a 90-day phase-out period as agreed by

Hello Welcome to your Last Week in Digital Media and all the news you may have missed. GENERAL ads are coming to VR, with Facebook’s Oculus testing ads in Blaston and two other unnamed titles. The Oculus ads will adhere to Facebook’s ad policies and leverage Facebook data to ensure relevance. Instagram is bringing ads

Hello Welcome to your Last Week in Digital Media and all the news you may have missed: GENERAL Apple held its developer conference during the week (WWDC), and there was a lot of news in the privacy space, almost worthy of a newsletter in and of itself. I’m going to try and do it justice

Hello Welcome to your Last Week in Digital Media and all the news you may have missed. The week’s big news was Facebook’s response to the Oversight Board decision on former President Trump’s suspension. The short version is the suspension will now last two (2) years from the date of the original suspension. This doesn’t

Hello Welcome to Last Week in Digital Media and all the news you may have missed: GENERAL Amazon has entered an agreement to buy MGM Studios. The deal, valued at ~US$9B, is subject to regulatory approval. One US Representative has already flagged the acquisition as a concern and urged Congress to stop it. twitter’s subscription

Hello Here’s your Last Week in Digital Media and all the news you may have missed. GENERAL the big news of the week was AT&T and Discovery announcing a US$43B deal to merge their respective media businesses (and AT&T exiting media). The new, yet unnamed entity, will not include the Xandr adtech unit, which will

Hello Here’s your Last Week in Digital Media and all the news you may have missed. GENERAL YouTube’s TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, now has a US$100MM fund to be shared over the next 12 months, with people who create and share YouTube Shorts content. It works in a similar way to Snap’s Spotlight US$1M a

Hello Here’s your Last Week in Digital Media and all the news you may have missed. OVERSIGHT BOARD DECISION The week’s biggest news was the decision by the (Facebook) Oversight Board on the suspension of former US President Trump. Not that anyone would have missed it, but the decision to suspend Trump was upheld. If

Hello Welcome to your Last Week in Digital Media; here’s all the news you may have missed. GENERAL Roku is in the midst of a dispute with YouTube over various matters, all of which culminated in Roku pre-emptively sending an email to customers warning that YouTube TV may end up being removed from the platform.