advertising
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Discord Is Getting Ads This Week. Here’s What That Means For You
Discord is implementing ads this week, a significant departure from its No Ads stance of years past. How will it work? Let’s talk about it.
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YouTube Is Forcing Some Users To Disable Adblockers
YouTube is cracking down on users determined to evade its ads and has given some of them an ultimatum: Turn off your ad blocker or subscribe to YouTube Premium. Ad-blocking users who don’t opt for either of those options won’t be able to watch videos on YouTube at all.
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In The Volatile World Of VTubers, Companies Crash And Burn
Elves, robots, zombies and pirates. Many of today’s internet stars aren’t even human, but outlandish characters that wouldn’t look out of place in a popular anime or manga. Such is the world of virtual YouTubers or “VTubers,” who have gone from a niche technology experiment to a full-blown cultural phenomenon in the space of just…
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Report: Future Xbox Games Might Have Ads, Tech’s Being Developed
Raise your hand if you’re excited to see more ads inside your favourite video games? I don’t see any hands. Well, bad news: A new report claims that Microsoft is building an advertising program to give “select brands” the ability to buy ads that will then appear in free-to-play Xbox games. And while the report…