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As customers gain more control of their media environment, advertisers have to go to greater lengths to get their brand name seen, known and remembered.
Social networking, smartphones, ad blockers, oh my. A global survey of 50,000 news consumers assessed the ways we get our news in 2016.
Online publishers are losing millions in lost earnings to ad blockers. But they are here to stay. So how can advertising change to reach its audience?
There is a way to ensure online advertising, the free web, and privacy can all coexist together.
Online advertising is so out of control, sometimes there’s more ads than content.
Instead of arguing over whether adblocking is right or wrong, advertisers and publishers could work to make the web better.
The rapid uptake of adblocking software on Apple’s latest devices shows that most users would be happy to see the back of online advertising.
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Senior Lecturer – Security, University of Sydney
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Professor of Technology & Society, Bangor University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Media, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, University of Oregon
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Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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