{"id":4223,"date":"2021-02-15T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2021-02-16T06:45:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T06:45:41","slug":"digital-monetization-update-feb-15-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/digital-monetization-update-feb-15-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Monetization Update \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Feb 15, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>1. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/clubhouse-will-strengthen-security-after-researchers-fi-1846271701?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">Clubhouse Is Tightening Security To Address China Spying Fears (Gizmodo)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">A group of researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory has determined that Clubhouse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s data protection practices allowed its users\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 data, possibly including their raw audio, to potentially be accessed by the Chinese government. The vulnerability arises out of Clubhouse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s use of Chinese company Agora, which provides a real-time voice and video engagement platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>2. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-02-15\/google-facebook-nearing-deals-to-pay-for-news-australia-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\"> Australia Says Google And Facebook Close To Finalizing Deals To Pay Domestic Media Companies (Bloomberg)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">In a sign the regulatory standoff may be softening, Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg held talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google counterpart Sundar Pichai over the weekend. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re very close to some very significant commercial deals,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Frydenberg told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday, according to a transcript sent by his office. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>3. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-france-google\/france-fines-google-1-1-million-euros-over-hotel-rankings-practices-idUSKBN2AF0PD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\"> Google Fined 1.1M Euros By France Over Hotel Ranking Practices (Reuters)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">After a probe found Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hotel rankings could be misleading for customers, Google Ireland and Google France have agreed to pay a 1.1 million euros ($1.34 million) fine. France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ministry and fraud watchdog had told this to Reuters. This is the second time France has fined Google within six months. A few months ago France&#8217;s privacy regulator had fined Google for more than $163 million for their practices regarding the use of cookies.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>4. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/linkedin-launch-creator-program-cf3b1897-157e-4c8d-9fff-1f1566087c98.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">LinkedIn To Form A Global Creator Management Team (Axios)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">LinkedIn announced the formation of a global creation management team, which will be led by its EIC Dan Roth. It aims to support and grow content creators on the platform. LinkedIn will be the latest tech giant to launch a creator program. Dan Roth tweeted, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Creators are the driving engine of LinkedIn.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>5. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adexchanger.com\/the-sell-sider\/why-the-ad-industry-should-care-about-core-web-vitals\/#more-150533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\"> Publishers Should Pay Attention To Core Web Vitals To Maximize Ad Revenue (AdExchanger)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">According to Chartbeat, web search precipitated equal to or greater traffic than from all social platforms combined, comprising 23% of traffic to North American publishing sites in Q2 of 2020. At the outset where Google is proposed to add three evolving sets of metrics \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCore Web Vitals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, by May 2021, publishers are expected to balance the design and rendering of their pages for better search ranking, higher-performing ads, and ultimately, higher ad revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>6. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ipg-targets-return-to-organic-growth-for-year-ahead-11612976296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">IPG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Aims At Organic Revenue Growth Despite Setbacks In Q4 (WSJ)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The American publicly traded advertising company (IPG) reported net sales of $8 billion in 2020, denoting a 6.5% decrease compared with its previous year as the net sales metric strips out billable expenses. The company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s net sales decreased 6.1% to $2.28 billion year-over-year and its organic revenue decreased 5.4% in the fourth quarter, missing analyst expectations of 4.7%, according to FactSet. Philippe Krakowsky, the new CEO said he is aiming at organic revenue growth in 2021, as markets are recovering from the pandemic effects. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>7. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/360526\/ad-execs-viewing-media-more-as-a-quality-than-a.html?edition=121411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\"> Ad Execs Viewing Media More As A &#8216;Quality&#8217; Than A Commodity (MediaPost)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perceptions of the value of media have changed as the majority now consider media more like a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153quality,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d than a commodity according to a new study from consultant ID Communications. Advertiser and agency executives now \u00e2\u20ac\u0153strongly believe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d media as quality have a competitive advantage over those who view it as a commodity. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Media can be as strategic as any form of advertising and has moved well beyond its legacy baggage as a commodity buy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said one anonymous advertiser quoted in the report. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Clubhouse Is Tightening Security To Address China Spying Fears, Australia Says Google And Facebook Close To Finalizing Deals To Pay Domestic Media Companies, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions\/4225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}