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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by dynamicvariable on Sunday May 13, 2018 @07:12PM (#17061534)
> I think one side affect of the surge of IT into advertising, is that it has become easier to measure exactly how well advertising works. By and large, it doesn't, very well.

I just don't understand the anti-social media agenda. The same people who for 2 years have been saying that social media advertising is so effective that it got trump elected are now saying it is ineffective. They demand that political advertising on social media be monitored because it is so effective that it gets presidents elected. Now, it's social media ad spending is so ineffective that these companies won't be around.

> What's happening to billboards and newspapers right now is probably coming to several other industries soon.

What's happening to billboards and newspapers is that ad money is flooding into digital space ( where the young kids are ).

https://www.iab.com/news/digital-ad-spend-increases-23-year-...

https://www.recode.net/2017/9/14/16294450/mobile-ad-spending...

Why speak so authoritatively about something you obviously know nothing about?

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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by candiodari on Sunday May 13, 2018 @09:24PM (#17062025)
Desperate politicians making absurd rules when:

1) US election went “wrong”.

2) The same is happening to them

3) They’re mostly not hitting their own companies

Obviously it’s a lie. The “right” is gaining in Europe like crazy, not because of Facebook, but because the existing governments have seriously underperformed.

But politicians faced with the choice of admitting mistakes that they don’t even know how to fix, or to wildly and randomly strike at whoever got blamed ...

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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by kalleboo on Monday May 14, 2018 @12:08AM (#17062611)
> The same people who

Is it really the same people? Do you have any examples of this?

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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by perl4ever on Monday May 14, 2018 @01:34PM (#17067476)
"The same people who for 2 years have been saying that social media advertising is so effective that it got trump elected are now saying it is ineffective."

So does that mean you think that social media advertising is effective as people claim and Russian use of it got Trump elected?

Regardless of whether your "same people" is a straw man, the opposite of a set of inconsistent claims tends to also be inconsistent, so I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.

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