ad blocking
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Nobody else owns our experiences
Who Owns the Mobile Experience? is a report by Unlockd on mobile advertising in the U.K. To clarify the way toward an answer, the report adds, “mobile operators or advertisers?” The correct answer is neither. Nobody’s experience is “owned” by somebody else. True, somebody else may cause a person’s experience to happen. But causing isn’t the… Continue reading
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The Data Bubble redux
This Post ran on my blog almost six years ago. I was wrong about the timing, but not about the turning: because it’s about to happen this month at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. More about that below the post. _________________ The tide turned today. Mark it: 31 July 2010. That’s when The… Continue reading
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Will Content Blocking push Apple into advertising’s wheat business?
[Update on 3 January 2016: Buzzfeed reports that Apple is killing iAd and getting out of that business, ending the conflict I detail below. And Apple confirms the decision, here. For a look at what I am sure is behind that, scroll down to “Sacrificing its adtech business…”.] A couple weeks ago, I posted Separating… Continue reading