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A new Facebook feature will roll out at the end of February will reveal to users why advertisers were given their contact information.

Guinness has dropped a number of rugby sponsorship adverts in Ireland after complaints that they could cause “offence or confusion” to immigrants. The world-famous dry stout company, which is a sponsor and the official beer of the Six Nations rugby

Newsguard isn’t just a news-rating app — it also aims to deplatform pro-Trump media by cutting off its ad revenue.

The Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based retailer’s new campaign is all about diversity and non-traditional brides, including same-sex brides and those already with children, reports AdAge.

Adverts showing a housewife looking after the family will be banned from next year in an industry-wide crackdown on “harmful stereotypes” which researchers allege contribute to “real-world gender inequalities”.

A group of British MP’s, seemingly upset at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to appear before the U.K. Parliament, have released a cache of seized Facebook documents. The documents outline many of Facebook’s practices around advertising. 

According to internal Facebook emails revealed by the Wall Street Journal, the social media giant considered cutting deals with third party companies in order to provide them with access to Facebook user data.

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream will not make a political advertisement for Democratic candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar, despite naming a flavor for him last week.

Google shut down Toronto mayoral candidate Faith Goldy’s online advertising campaign Saturday, just 48 hours before polls opened.

Facebook has apologized to a woman after she accused them of “taunting” her with baby-related advertisements following a stillbirth. She was reportedly unable to turn off the ads despite repeated efforts.

A new lawsuit filing alleges that Facebook purposefully inflated the time spent watching videos on its platform by 150 percent to 900 percent to mislead advertisers and inflate advertising rates.

The head of Google’s massively lucrative advertising and commerce business, worth approximately $110 billion, is leaving the company to join venture capital firm Greylock Partners.

Television advertisements paid for by Saudi Arabia promoting the Islamist dictatorship’s “reform” programme should not have been aired in the UK, the regulator has said.

A newly filed lawsuit alleges that Facebook misled advertisers by inflating the “potential reach” figures for ad campaigns — the total audience that views ads on the platform.

According to a recent report, advertising technology firms are increasingly being pushed out of the market by large tech firms led by Facebook and Google.

A recently filed Facebook patent would enable the company to employ a user’s phone to record their reactions to advertisements.

Facebook now lets users file complaints against businesses if they had a bad experience after purchasing a product through an advertisement on the platform.

A new program in the United Kingdom seeks to ban advertisements featuring thin women.

LONDON (AP) — Google is suspending all advertising connected to Ireland’s abortion referendum as part of moves to protect “election integrity,” the company announced Wednesday.

Refinery29, a media and entertainment company focused on young women, “blurs the lines” with how they promote sponsored content, becoming the outlet which is “pushing the boundaries the most,” with controversial tactics that even target its own employees, according to a report.

Facebook is beginning to limit the data available to advertisers following their most recent user data scandal. Its latest move is to limit information from third party sources previously available to ad buyers.

Following the “refocusing” of Facebook’s News Feed algorithm to prioritize posts from friends and family, Facebook’s ad costs spiked significantly, as ads are reaching fewer consumers.

A trade body representing 3,000 UK advertisers is expected to meet with Facebook following the company’s latest user data scandal to send the message that “enough is enough.”

Google is reportedly teaming up with major retailers for a program called Shopping Actions as the tech giant attempts to take on Amazon while also boosting their revenue.

The Wall Street Journal published an article recently explaining how Facebook chooses which ads to target users with — and it’s not by spying on you through your phone’s microphone.

Facebook will reportedly begin sending postcards to the addresses of potential political ad buyers to confirm that they reside in the U.S. following the controversy around Russian ad purchases.

NBC is announcing mid-Olympics that it is joining the #SeeHer movement to end gender bias against women in the media and advertising.

Tomorrow, Google Chrome will be receiving an ad-blocking update — here’s how the new the feature will work.

The New York Times published an op-ed recently naming the online advertising business as the “Internet’s Central Villain.”

SCOTTeVEST CEO Scott Jordan said his company advertises on Fox News because their viewers are “extremely gullible” and “f**cking idiots.”

Facebook has announced that a system bug may have revealed users’ personal phone numbers to advertisers.

Amazon is reportedly in talks to push advertisements through their Echo smart speaker devices.

Amazon plans to challenge the online advertising duopoly of Facebook and Google by stepping into the market themselves in 2018.

A Japanese space startup company plans to launch a lunar mission to set up a projection mapping service allowing them to place advertisements on the surface of the Moon.

Cooking, cleaning mums will be banned in advertisements across the UK from next year, following a study which claimed traditional gender roles are “harmful and outdated”.

Google has once again overtaken Facebook as the number one traffic referrer in 2017.