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NBC’s Peacock Enlists Advertisers and Cable Companies in Marketing Push

Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal is planning an expansive marketing rollout for its coming streaming service, Peacock, including ads on and off its TV networks and websites, cross-promotions with launch sponsors and pay-TV companies that distribute its channels, and a major presence during its coverage of the Olympics this summer. NBCUniversal’Read More

Google: Structured Data Has No Impact on Ranking in Web Search

Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, clarifies that structured data is optional and does not impact search rankings. While this has always been the case, Sullivan reiterated his fact after some controversy was caused over a misunderstanding that structured data is required to rank well in Google Search. Read MoreRead More

Why Is the Apple TV Constantly Advertising at Us?

The Apple TV app on the Apple TV is currently the bane of my existence. In theory, it should be a tidy way to manage everything you watch, bringing together content from Apple, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, and other streaming services (but still not Netflix, for some reason), plus live news Read More

Google’s move to drop cookies pushes advertising into new era

Google is upending the advertising world with its decision to “render obsolete” a key tool used by marketers for years to track would-be customers as they move around the Web: it’s phasing out the cookie. On Tuesday, the company said it would stop supporting third-party cookies over the next Read More

Amazon’s Expanding Its Video-Advertising Business

Amazon has quickly built a sizable digital-video advertising business on the back of its Fire TV platform. Now, Amazon’s eyeing the audience outside of its 40 million Fire TV users. The online retail giant is in talks with multiple publishers to sell some of their ad inventories on other streaming Read More

3 Ways to Use Chat Marketing For B2B Marketing

Chat Marketing is certainly popular among B2C companies, but that doesn’t mean it’s non-existent among B2B industries, or that it can’t be helpful. In fact, one study shows that just 74 percent of B2C companies use live chat for sales, while 85 percent of B2B Read More

Google Ads Introduces Bid Simulator Support for Smart Bidding

Google Ads is rolling out bid simulator support for the Target ROAS (return on ad spend) bid strategy, as well as a new budget simulator. This marks the first time bid simulator support has been available for a smart bidding campaign. Previously, bid simulators have only been available for campaigns Read More

Facebook releases low-latency online speech recognition framework

Facebook AI Research (FAIR) today said it’s open-sourcing wav2letter@anywhere, a deep learning-based inference framework that achieves fast performance for online automatic speech recognition in cloud or embedded edge environments. Wav2letter@anywhere is based on neural net-based language models wav2letter and wav2letter++, which upon its Read More