Google Chrome Rolls Out Ad Blockers, Changing the Web (video)

Google Chrome Rolls Out Ad Blockers

Bloomberg.com video above published Feb 15, 2018: Sourcepoint (domain: sourcepoint.com) CEO Ben Barokas discusses Google and online advertising with Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology."

An update on Better Ads | Web | developers.google.com: "In June, we announced Chrome's plans to support the Better Ads Standards in early 2018. Violations of the Standards are reported to sites via the Ad Experience Report, and site owners can submit their site for re-review once the violations have been fixed. Starting on February 15, in line with the Coalition's guidelines, Chrome will remove all ads from sites that have a "failing" status in the Ad Experience Report for more than 30 days. All of this information can be found in the Ad Experience Report Help Center, and our product forums are available to help address any questions or feedback."

See also:

• How Chrome ad blocking is already changing the web | CNET.com: "Google's browser doesn't go as far as full-on ad blockers and won't always stop ad trackers. But already it's cut ads on 42 percent of websites it's tangled with."
• The Google Chrome Ad Blocker Has Already Changed the Web | WIRED.com
• "Google flexed its muscles with new ad-blocking rules, and some smaller players are concerned about its power"--Google Chrome ad blocking reactions | cnbc.com: "Google's Chrome browser will now block all advertising on websites that serve particularly annoying ads, like autoplay videos with sound or full-page pop-ups."
• IAB Ad Blocking Report (2016)

Another update to Chrome✨
Learn details of Better Ads Standards and how Chrome's ad filtering works.
(This is in effect starting February 15th)https://t.co/nSQASghN4x

— Chrome Developers (@ChromiumDev) February 16, 2018

Spot on. “Make no mistake: this is a [Google] adblocker designed to benefit advertising companies.”

The annoying ads that hyper-target, manipulate, and follow you around everywhere, are mostly run by Google and Facebook and are untouched. Smoke screen.https://t.co/6ssgoSbeX4

— Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg) February 14, 2018

Google gave websites a heads up before instituting its new ad blocker. Turns out that alone was enough to get websites to change their annoying ad practices https://t.co/v0Qsi2SNBl

— WIRED (@WIRED) February 17, 2018

Chrome ad blocker: The internet's largest ad company is now advertising's biggest traffic cop https://t.co/wfWjFSwPsO pic.twitter.com/aYDrrDAXvy

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) February 16, 2018

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Twitter Could Unlock a Lot of Value, Co-Founder Ev Williams Says:

Evan Williams, Medium's chief executive officer and co-founder of Twitter (twitter.com), comments on Twitter and Jack Dorsey. He speaks during an interview with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg West." Video published September 1, 2016. See also After a quiet summer, Twitter’s board will take a hard look at what comes next | Recode.net Sep 6, 2016: Talk of a sale continues to rumble — "Twitter is considered to be too bloated still — it had 3,860 employees as of June 30 and paid out $168 million in stock-based compensation last quarter alone, an amount equal to roughly 28 percent of its quarterly revenue. (Facebook’s stock-based compensation was just 12.5 percent of its Q2 revenue, in comparison.)"

Advertising & Monetization: the key to success?

Twitter $TWTR in 1-year, as of Sep 02, 2016, DOWN 30.55%

Here’s how Snapchat makes money from disappearing videos:

Snapchat (snapchat.com) plans to make somewhere around $300 million in revenue this year, up from a $50 million revenue target last year, while also telling investors that it could be a $500 million to $1 billion business in 2017, a massive jump. Video above published August 17, 2016.

Transcript via YouTube:
0:00 snapchat has over 150 million daily users that's about half the population
0:05 of the united states how to snapchat accompany famous for making messages
0:09 disappear generate any money they do it the same way other Internet companies
0:13 like Google or Facebook or Twitter generate money through advertising if
0:18 you use snapchat you'll see ads in three key places inside the app in the
0:22 discovery channels that is publishing partners produce in snapchat stories
0:26 like the big montage snapchat compiles for major events like the Super Bowl or
0:30 coachella you also soon see ads inserted between the stories that your friends
0:34 are posting as you jump from one friend story to another you may see a word from
0:38 a snapchat advertiser as well but the most creative ads snapchat cells are
0:43 sponsored filters and lenses the face distorting technology that lets users
0:47 transformed into a dog or a zombie or a bumblebee brands can sponsor these
0:51 lenses like Taco Bell did when it turned users faces into tacos and users love
0:56 them
0:57 advertisers due to snapchat is hoping to generate around three hundred million
1:00 dollars in ad revenue this year and is telling investors it could bring in as
1:04 much as 1 billion dollars in 2017 that's a lot of money it would certainly be a
1:09 big jump for snapchat but remember twitter which is under tons of pressure
1:13 from Wall Street to turn things around made more than 2 billion dollars in
1:17 revenue last year facebook made almost 18 billion dollars a measly $MONEY
1:22 billion doesn't impress like they used to
1:24 so what does the future hold for snapchat we don't know the business is
1:28 young and the company needs to show marketers that it's ads actually lead to
1:32 sales because when snapchat's shine wears off and it's no longer the hot new app
1:36 that everyone's talking about ads will be what keeps its business growing

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Rightside $NAME Q2 2016 Financial Results, LIVE Webcast Replay

Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME)  began publicly trading Aug 2014
after spin-off from Demand Media

Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ: NAME)

Principal domain: rightside.co

Investor Relations: investors.rightside.co

Q2 2016 financial results released after market close on August 9, 2016:

• Investor Presentation (pdf) 4.2 MB
• Press Release - Financial Results
• Rightside Group's (NAME) CEO Taryn Naidu on Q2 2016 Results - Earnings Call Transcript | SeekingAlpha.com

Conference call and audio LIVE webcast with investors and analysts will be held the same day, August 9, 2016, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (1:30 p.m. Pacific Time):
Live conference call: (844) 413-1777 (domestic) or (716) 247-5761 (international)
Conference call replay available through August 14, 2016: (855) 859-2056 (domestic) or (404) 537-3406 (international)
Conference ID: 52421364
Live and archived webcast: http://www.rightside.market - Listen to webcast

Q2 2016:

Q2 2016 Revenue of $54.03M (+3.6% Y/Y) misses consensus estimate by $1.43M.

Second Quarter 2016 Financial Highlights
(Unless otherwise noted, all comparisons are relative to the fiscal second quarter 2015.)

• Registrar services revenue increased to $44.2 million compared to $43.3 million.
• Registry services revenue increased 52% to $2.9 million compared to $1.9 million.
• Aftermarket and other revenue increased to $7.8 million compared to $7.5 million. 
• Total revenue increased to $54.0 million compared to $52.2 million.
• Net loss Q2 2016 was $2.5 million, compared to $5.7 million in Q2 2015.
• Adjusted EBITDA increased to $2.3 million, compared to $779,000. 
• Gain on other assets, net was $2.2 million representing the gain on withdrawals of its interest in gTLD applications and the sale of its non-core registrar credentials.

About Rightside
The company, with its affiliates, is a leading provider of domain name services, offering one of the industry's most comprehensive platforms for the discovery, registration, usage, and monetization of domain names. In addition to being a new gTLD registry operator, Rightside is home to some of the most admired brands in the industry, including Enom and Name.com. Headquartered in Kirkland, WA, Rightside has offices in North America, Europe, and Australia (source: Rightside.co).

Rightside $NAME presentation at the Canaccord Genuity Growth Conference on August 10, 2016: Taryn Naidu, CEO, and Chief Financial Officer, Tracy Knox, are scheduled to present at the Canaccord Genuity Growth Conference, at the InterContinental Boston in Boston, Massachusetts. Rightside's presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time (5:30 a.m. Pacific time). The presentation will be available through a live audio webcast accessible from the Investors section of Rightside's website at http://www.rightside.market. An archived replay of the webcast will also be available for 90 days following the live presentation.

Above: Rightside new gTLDs - new generic Top-Level Domains + .GAMES

Rightside has 544,266 domain names registered in its 39 launched new gTLDs according to Rightside Registry | Registry Breakdown | ntldstats.com, which makes it the 11th largest new gTLD registry operator with 2.35% market share.

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• News Review [10Jul]: ...$NAME: "the company announced it had rejected the unsolicited proposal from Donuts Inc. to acquire Rightside's entire registry of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and related assets for $70 million in an all-cash deal."
• Rightside $NAME Q1 2016 Earnings Webcast, May 10 ...

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Nolan Bushnell: Funding Startups, Secret To Successful Mobile Games

The Secret to Successful Mobile Games, According to Atari's Ex-CEO - Nolan Bushnell, *NeoEdge Networks chairman and former Atari chief executive officer, discussed the funding environment for tech startups and the secret to successful mobile games with Bloomberg's Betty Liu on "Bloomberg Markets," November 6, 2015.

*NeoEdge Networks | CrunchBase: "Acquired by Double Fusion (which is now closed) on December 14, 2011; Total Equity Funding $10M in 3 Rounds from 4 Investors; Headquarters: Toronto ... NeoEdge Networks is a tech and in-game ad company that enables casual game publishers and developers to deliver TV-like commercials."

Twitter: @NolanBushnell

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