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Crypto Ad-Tech Shop Builds 'Retargeting' Service to Reel in Likely Customers
3.4.2025
Addressable is looking to bring Web2 marketing tactics to the Web3 economy
Jeep Owners Dealing With Excessive Pop-Up Ads, Reminding Us How The Future Sucks
12.2.2025
Imagine driving down the road in your car and stopping at an intersection. The moment you do, an ad pops up on your dashboard, covering your GPS and forcing you to close it. Then you stop again and it happens again. And again. Well, that scenario has been happening to numerous Jeep owners recently...
Remember When Selling Out Was A Bad Thing?
10.2.2025
This year’s Super Bowl was a mostly boring game of football with a great Kendrick Lamar concert in the middle. Of course, sprinkled liberally through out all of Super Bowl 59 were expensive commercials. And like in years past, nearly every ad included actors, musicians and other famous people...
Valve Bans Forced In-Game Ads From All Steam Titles
10.2.2025
If you, like most people on Earth, a frequent mobile gamer, you’ll be all-too aware of the bane of in-game ads. Because the freemium model proves by far the most successful way to release games on telephones, you pay by sitting through agonizing ads with fake countdown timers, ‘x’ buttons that...
Netflix Is Raising Its Prices Again, Even For People Watching With Ads
22.1.2025
The most popular streaming service behind Stranger Things and other hits is raising its prices for the second time in as many years. Netflix announced it will charge users anywhere from $12 to $24 more a year depending on their subscription tier. Even viewers who are already watching ads will have...
A Few Ways That Cloudways Makes Running This Site a Little Easier
14.1.2025
(This is a sponsored post.)
It’s probably no surprise to you that CSS-Tricks is (proudly) hosted on Cloudways, DigitalOcean’s managed hosting arm. Given both CSS-Tricks and Cloudways are part of DigitalOcean, it was just a matter of time …
A Few Ways That Cloudways Makes Running This Site...
Spotify Wrapped Tells Me My Music Habits Are Not Normal
5.12.2024
Yesterday, Spotify released its annual Wrapped infographics breaking down individual users’ most-listened-to songs and artists. As the Kotaku staff rolled into Slack, we shared our respective results, and the stark difference between how some of us consume music got two of our writers reflecting...
Blockchain protocols aim to break up digital advertising cartel
27.11.2024
Blockchain aggregators like Layer3, Intract and Playa3ull aim to break up the power of centralized social media and search
KFC Won't Let Colonel Sanders Appear In Tekken
30.9.2024
Tekken development chief Katsuhiro Harada has long dreamed of adding Kentucky Fried Chicken’s founder-turned-mascot Colonel Sanders to the long-running fighting game. But according to Harada, KFC isn’t interested in the crossover. And it seems unlikely that you’ll get a Waffle House stage...
Funko Fusion's Mecha Colonel Sanders Is Locked Behind A $25 Chicken Paywall
9.9.2024
Funko Fusion’s latest character reveal is KFC mascot, founder, and actual human being Colonel Sanders (Colonel Harland David Sanders passed away over 40 years ago). And if you eat enough KFC chicken you can get a special version of the late fast food icon in a mech suit. Really.Read more
Perplexity AI’s ad integration plan draws shock, mockery: ‘This company is toast’
23.8.2024
The company reportedly intends to charge a much higher than average premium for ad space in its AI-powered search engine
Perplexity AI’s ad integration plan draws shock, mockery: ‘This company is toast’
23.8.2024
The company reportedly intends to charge a much higher-than-average premium for ad space in its AI-powered search engine
Perplexity AI’s ad integration plan draws shock, mockery: ‘This company is toast’
23.8.2024
The company reportedly intends to charge a much higher-than-average premium for ad space in its AI-powered search engine
Google Faces Lawsuit After $5M in Crypto Stolen via Play Store App
18.8.2024
A Florida woman, Maria Vaca, has sued Google in a California state court, alleging that a cryptocurrency wallet app she downloaded from the Google Play Store was malicious and resulted in the theft of $5 million in cryptocurrency. Vaca claims the app, Yobit Pro, exploited Google’s marketing...
McDonald's Finally Brings Back Collector's Cups And They Won't Poison You This Time
12.8.2024
McDonald’s is paying tribute to its lucrative merchandising past with a new set of collector’s meal cups that star past McDonald’s cup icons like Grimace, Hello Kitty, and Shrek. They’re plastic instead of glass, but they won’t leach heavy metals into your bloodstream this time either. Read more
X halts ads for Premium+ users as Musk lawsuit challenges first amendment
8.8.2024
Musk may finally be acknowledging the sun has set on X’s ad sales, but he isn’t going quietly into that good night
X halts ads for Premium+ users as Musk lawsuit challenges First Amendment
8.8.2024
Musk may finally be acknowledging the sun has set on X’s ad sales, but he isn’t going quietly into that good night
UK’s FCA provides more guidance on crypto promotion compliance
7.8.2024
The financial regulator is trying to bring companies offering crypto services into line with requirements that came into force in October
UK’s FCA provides more guidance on crypto promotion compliance
7.8.2024
The financial regulator is trying to bring companies offering crypto services into line with requirements that came into force in October
Elon Musk accepts challenge to fight president of Venezuela
1.8.2024
After ducking Mark Zuckerberg, Musk has now agreed to fight 61-year-old Nicolas Maduro on live TV