Our recommended reads from around the web:
- MediaPost: Relevancy Is A Mobile Display Myth — It’s User Control That Will Stop The Blocking (3 min read)
- New York Magazine: The Good News at the Washington Post (19 min read)
- The Verge: Facebook adjusts News Feed to favor friends and family over publishers (5 min read)
- Digiday: What Axel Springer’s loss in ad-blocking suit means for UK publishers (3 min read)
- Nieman Lab: The Financial Times’ CEO on trial subscriptions, the platform age, and living in luxury (16 min read)
- Recode: Google is adding new ways to track you for ads, but it’s letting you call the shots (2 min read)
- MediaPost: In Flip-Flop, Facebook Denies Suggesting Friends Based On Location (2 min read)
- Wall Street Journal: EU Set to Issue Fresh Formal Antitrust Charges Against Google (2 min read)
- New York Times: At Cannes, the Ad Industry Confronts the Rise of Facebook (7 min read)
- Wall Street Journal: Vice, BuzzFeed Tread on Madison Avenue’s Turf (4 min read)
- Ad Age: Nearly 400 Publishers Have Applied for Medium’s Plan to Help Them Make Money (3 min read)
- Recode: Mother Jones and Gawker Media both have rich enemies who want to sue the pants off them (2 min read)