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Facebook Takes Steps to Improve Advertising Data After Criticism (nytimes.com)
1 point by username223 on Feb 11, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The title's the boring part. The interesting bit is this:

> Procter & Gamble, with brands including Gillette, Crest and Charmin, is the biggest advertiser in the United States, spending $2.4 billion in marketing last year, according to Kantar Media.

In other words, P&G is setting $2.4b (3% of the Education Department's budget, FWIW) on fire every year to fight over the fixed-size market for commodity goods like disposable razors, toothpaste, and toilet paper. I don't see how this ends well.




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