John Battelle
CEO @TheRecount, a founder of NewCo, sovrn, Federated Media, Web 2 Summit, Industry Standard, Wired; investor/writer on Media, Tech, Culture, Business.
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Facebook is out of control. If it were a country it would be North Korea
If the combined might of brands like Unilever and Coca-Cola don’t scare Mark Zuckerberg, who can hold the social media platform to account?
Biden campaign will not pull advertising despite widening boycott against Facebook
Joe Biden's campaign is not pulling advertising from Facebook despite a growing boycott by major companies of the social media platform, arguing that while it shares in the values of the boycotters, it "cannot afford to cede these platforms" to...
John Battelle
Perhaps the most interesting part of the FB story. How can Biden NOT advertise on Facebook, even though his campaign supports the boycott organizers? His team says they can't "cede" the platform to Trump. But imagine if they did? 🤔
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Zuckerberg Tells Facebook Staff He Expects Advertisers to Return ‘Soon Enough’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees he was reluctant to bow to the threats of a growing ad boycott, saying in private remarks that “my guess is that all these advertisers will be back on the platform soon enough.”Zuckerberg gave his thoughts...
American Exceptionalism on the Virus
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John Battelle's Search Blog Marketers: Your Role In Social Discourse Is Critical
How Brands Can Fix the Relationship Between Platforms, Audiences, and Media Companies (Hint: It’s Not a Boycott) (Second of a series. The first post reviews the media and platform ecosystem, …
John Battelle
Marketers: Your Role In Social Discourse Is Critical (second in a series) Featuring @Twitter, with thanks to @TheRecount battellemedia.com/archives/2020/… via @johnbattelle
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Facebook Tries to Contain Damage as Verizon Joins Ad Boycott
Facebook is working to persuade its top advertisers not to pause spending on the social network, as it tries to keep a boycott from a handful of marketers from turning into a widespread revolt.
John Battelle
"“We do not make policy changes tied to revenue pressure,” Carolyn Everson, VP at Facebook, said in an email to advertisers last weekend." "Revenue pressure" is such a BS term. These are companies and people who think you're doing the wrong thing.
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Verizon is the biggest advertiser to join the Facebook ad boycott so far
Facebook’s hate speech problem is costing it
John Battelle
I have a lot of thoughts about the FB boycott - in particular having to do with how its millions of SMB advertisers are more than happy to pick up impressions left by larger brands - but what matters far more than money is optics. Those just got WAY worse.
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What comes after Zoom? — Benedict Evans
We had video calls in science fiction, and we had video conferencing in the 1990s, just as the web was taking off, as a very expensive and impractical tool for big companies. It was proposed as a use case for 3G, which didn’t happen at all, and with...
John Battelle
Per @benedictevans, this: “video itself will be a commodity and the question will be how you wrap it”
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MEET THE FOUNDERS OF THE LAST MILE
The Last Mile (TLM) is a nonprofit breaking the cycle of mass incarceration by combating recidivism through in-prison education and post-release mentorship. Founded in 2010 at California’s San Quentin State Prison, TLM maintains 0% recidivism among...
John Battelle
Last Chance! Join us as we talk w/ the co-founders of CA-based The Last Mile @TLM We'll go live inside a state prison to see how TLM's biz and tech training really works. Special thanks to Comcast & @TheRecount June 25th at 2pm ET. Sign up for free here: bit.ly/3dkqnup pic.twitter.com/xjMr4Aiuh0
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What’s Facebook’s Deal With Donald Trump?
Mark Zuckerberg has forged an uneasy alliance with the Trump administration. He may have gotten too close.
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A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up
Sridhar Ramaswamy once ran Google’s $115 billion advertising arm. But he grew disillusioned and worried that growth was too much of a priority.
John Battelle
Actually the most interesting part here is the personal cloud search.... A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up
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Mapillary, the crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook – TechCrunch
Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company’s blog. Terms of the deal aren’t being...
John Battelle
With Apple getting its due for app store monopoly, FB and Twitter taking small steps to reign in POTUS, Amazon getting called out for antitrust... it's kinda easy to miss this
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Facebook takes down Trump ads 'for violating our policy against organized hate'
Facebook on Thursday said it had take action against ads run by President Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on hate. The ads, which attacked what the Trump campaign described as "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups," featured an...
Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS
Now you can record audio and attach it to your tweets.
John Battelle's Search Blog Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering
Marketers – especially brand marketers: Too many of you have lost the script regarding the critical role you play in society. And while well-intentioned TV spots about “getting through …
John Battelle
I wrote a thing, related to our @TheRecount news today. More coming. Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering battellemedia.com/archives/2020/… via @johnbattelle
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John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy
The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own reelection prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses.
John Battelle
In any other reality, this piece would be a bombshell. But it's just another Weds.
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On Twitter's contentious timeline, publishing startup The Recount wants to hold hands with brands in news
Media venture looks to build its editorial product on the messaging service, lands Bank of America as sponsor.
Real-Time Recount - AVC
Our portfolio company Recount Media, which I have blogged about here before, recently launched an interesting partnership between Recount, Twitter, and brand marketers. They are calling this partnership “Real-Time Recount.” Recount is a news...