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Meta changed the default inventory filter setting to allow ads to deliver alongside all content:
Beginning on February 24, 2025, we’re gradually changing the default setting of inventory filters for in-content ads and Audience Network to expanded
Now would be a good time to check your settings if you’re particular about what content your ads appear within / next to.
via Jon Loomer
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Marketers are bystanders.
In the words of Peter Drucker:
The bystander sees things neither actor nor audience notices. Above all, he sees differently from the way actors or audience see. Bystanders reflect, and reflection is a prism rather than a mirror; it refracts.
As a marketer, you operate in this middle space, at a slight remove.
Your job is—to continue the metaphor of actors and audience—to manage the fourth wall. The vital point where performance meets audience and the magic happens (or doesn’t).
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Like IBM, Oracle, and Sun before it, Apple seems at risk of moving from innovator to infrastructure—a big player that no longer steers the market but plays a foundational role in enabling the players that do.
Apple Scraps Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses
Headset group struggles to find path forward after Vision Pro
Canceled device would have rivaled Meta’s future AR glasses
Confusing themselves for the market and losing track of trends until it’s too late to be an early mover.
The company has risen from the ashes before, can it do it again?
via Bloomberg
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Does Meta have its long-desired hardware platform? Or at least the start of it?
It’s extended the contract with the Ray-Ban parent company for more years of smart glasses collaboration.
Now, according to Bloomberg, Oakley is joining the crew.
Plus…
Company resumes work on smartwatch and develops AirPods rival
First real AR glasses, dubbed ‘Artemis,’ are planned for 2027
The question used to be: what will replace the smartphone?
But the path now seems to be to replace the interface and turn the smartphone into a personal, portable server for ambient computing peripherals and AI features.
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the organizing principle of digital advertising, which is the individual consumer. What Facebook — now Meta — is better at than anyone in the world is understanding consumers not as members of a cohort or demographic group but rather as individuals, and serving them ads that are uniquely interesting to them.
brands are created for cohorts or demographic groups, because they need to be manufactured at scale;
thus the opportunity for an entirely new wave of companies that were built around digital advertising and its deep personalization from the get-go.
from Ben Thompson
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