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Is the advertising market in trouble?

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Snap was not the only victim of its lackluster earnings digest — other companies that make money off of advertising incomes saw their share prices dip on concerns that the social network was not an outlier. Given the sheer number of mega-tech companies that are betting on the advertising market, the news matters.

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Pixalate tunes into $18.1M for fraud prevention in television, mobile advertising

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million in growth capital for its fraud protection, privacy and compliance analytics platform that monitors connected television and mobile advertising. Navigating ad fraud and consumer privacy abuse in programmatic advertising. Digital advertising is big business. Pixalate raised $18.1 million to date. This includes a $4.6

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Stealth startup Favs raises ~$1M for its close-friends-only social network

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Over the years, social media has moved further and further away from its original value proposition of being a network where you could keep up with close friends and family in a private space. Instead, today’s apps are entertainment giants, filled with creator content, multimedia and brand advertisements.

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Primitives wants to turn your crypto wallet into a social network

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DJ Gabeau, one of Snapchat Stories’ earliest engineers and founder of web3 social network Primitives , told TechCrunch that he thinks NFTs can be a genuinely enjoyable way for people to connect with one another digitally and make memories. Gabeau likened Primojis to Snapchat filters, which brands often use as a means to advertise.

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MyPlace raises $5.8M to scale its private home-sharing social network

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New York-based MyPlace , a social network designed to help friends share their private homes, has raised $5.8 Since then, the platform has grown into a social network used by thousands of people in 86 countries. MyPlace hasn’t done any paid advertising and is growing based on word of mouth among friends, Bell says.

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Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

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They were building tools for businesses to fund success with digital marketing, but kept hearing from customers about the advantage big advertisers had over smaller ones — the ability to receive good payment terms, credit lines, as well as data and advice. Is the internet advertising economy about to implode? Trust dashboard.

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Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly

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Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo , the digital disposable camera social network. District Court for the District of Columbia put it in his recent decision , “No one who hears the title of the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ wonders which company it is about.” Daniel Liss. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Boasberg of the U.S.

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