marketing
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The EU Wants To Kill Targeted Ads By Fining Meta $AU575 Million
3The EU issued a €390 million (about $575 million) fine against Meta Wednesday, a decision that suggests Europe may be in its final days of widespread targeted advertising. One thing is certain: EU citizens are going to see even more pop-ups asking for consent to track them online than they already do.
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GameStop Workers Reveal The Junk They Can’t Sell That’s Piling Up
As Kotaku reported last week, retail giant GameStop has been increasingly stocking its retail stores with weird, random junk instead of, well, video games. Dissatisfied GameStop employees have been grousing online about the massive amounts of toys the warehouses are sending. And as it turns out, customers aren’t even buying them. Editor’s note: This is…
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GameStop Pre-Orders Are A Mess Right Now, Staff Say
“Is there anything you want to pre-order?” Almost nobody walks in and out of a GameStop without hearing those words. Employees are measured against how many pre-orders they can rack up while GameStop rakes in the cash months ahead of a game’s actual release. But lately, the strategy has been sabotaged by a system overhaul,…
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GameStop Rewards Employees For Sticking Around With 50-Cent Raise
Last month, GameStop announced new stock bonuses for store managers and hourly raises for other employees. It seemed like some relief was finally coming for the staff, who have been through so much these last few years, all while watching investors profit off unprecedented meme stock hijinks. Over the past week, however, employees learned those…