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Walgreens' experimental rollout of those ad-covered refrigerator screens has disintegrated into legal chaos.

Walgreens’ Ad Screens on Drink Fridges Allegedly Caught Fire

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid the ongoing SAG strike, Tom Hanks has issued a warning about an AI version of him being used in a dental ad without his consent.

Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Says Someone Used AI to Make an Ad Featuring Him Without His Permission

By Noor Al-Sibai

Five hundred drones took to the sky in NYC, not to entertain onlookers with a futuristic dance of lights — but to show them Candy Crush ads.

New Yorkers Furious at Drones Forming Huge “Candy Crush” Ad Over Skyline

By Victor Tangermann

Advertisers are fleeing Twitter in droves now that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken over control. Now, he's trying to pick up the pieces and begging them to return.

Elon Musk Meeting With Advertisers, Begging Them Not to Leave Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk, famously against advertising and known for his company Tesla's supposed zero dollar marketing strategy, now has a change of heart on ads.

Elon Musk, Who Always Hated Ads, Suddenly Says He Loves Ads Now That He Owns a Site That Depends on Them

By Frank Landymore

Russian researchers are suggesting we could send satellites into space to display ads in the night sky by having them reflect sunligh while in formation.

Russian Scientists Propose Plan to Launch Huge Advertisements Into Orbit Over Cities

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like at least one corporation may finally have reached their ultimate frontier: advertising to us in our sleep.

Neuroscience and Brain

Woman Says Coors Paid Her $1,000 to Successfully Inject Advertisements Into Her Dreams

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's still a chance Microsoft may stuff ads in its File Explorer — you know, the thing every Windows user relies on to access their files?

Microsoft May Start Putting Ads in Windows File Manager

By Victor Tangermann

The neural networks behind social media's sophisticated ad targeting could swallow the whole energy grid.

Scientists Warn That Ad-Targeting Neural Networks Could Use “Infinite” Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The team of three that recently published an essay on dream hacking in Aeon includes Harvard professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, and they report that a 2021 survey found that, of more than 400 marketers in the United States, 77% plan to use dream-tech advertising in the next three years.

Scientists Warn That Marketers Are Trying to Inject Ads Into Dreams

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Dubbed "Rozy," a CGI influencer was created by Korean media company Sidus Studio X to sell products and services for more than 100 brands.

Artificial Intelligence

This CGI Influencer Is Shilling For More Than 100 Brands

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX is reportedly partnering with Canadian tech startup Geometric Energy Corporation to launch a billboard into orbit around Earth.

SpaceX Launching Satellite to Display Billboard Ads in Space

By Tony Ho Tran

restly sleep app

Corporations Want to Put Advertisements In Your Dreams

By Tony Ho Tran

Ford has patented a piece of technology that could prove to be a major headache for its customers — that is, if it ever makes it into the company's cars.

Advanced Transport

Ford Patents Tech to Annoy Drivers With In-Car Advertisements

By Victor Tangermann

Creative school Brother created a fake advertisement for Netflix show "Black Mirror" that in reality is just an actual mirror fixed to a bus canopy.

Fake Ad For “Black Mirror Season 6” Is Just an Actual Mirror

By Victor Tangermann

Google has banned ads hawking unproven or experimental medical treatments and therapies, including many stem cell and gene therapies.

Google Finally Bans Dangerous Miracle Cure Ads

By Kristin Houser

A security company's investigation debunks the theory that a mobile phone listens to its user's conversations for ad-targetting purposes.

Robots and Machines

Experts Insist: No, Your Phone Isn’t Secretly Listening to You

By Kristin Houser

North Face has officially apologized for uploading images of remote locations with models wearing North Face swag in them to Wikipedia.

The North Face Vandalized Wikipedia, Then Apologized After Outcry

By Victor Tangermann

After an outpouring of anger about the project on social media, PepsiCo no longer says it plans to launch a space billboard.

After Backlash, Pepsi Says It Never Planned a Space Billboard

By Jon Christian

PepsiCo says it's struck a deal with a Russian startup called StartRocket to display an enormous energy drink advertisement in the night sky.

Pepsi Plans to Project a Giant Ad in the Night Sky Using Cubesats

By Jon Christian

YouTube pulled programmatic ad placements on a number of anti-vaccination or anti-vax related channels, BuzzFeed News reports.

YouTube Starts Pulling Ads on Anti-Vaccination Videos

By Victor Tangermann

Once again, Facebook has been caught offering advertisers the ability to specifically market to neo-Nazis and people interested in Nazi music.

Facebook Reportedly Let Marketers Advertise to Nazis

By Dan Robitzski

A video exposing the prevalence of YouTube pedophiles has caused advertisers to flee the platform, but what can it do to actually address the problem?

While Pedophiles Flock to YouTube, Advertisers Flee It

By Kristin Houser

The 2019 Super Bowl ads featured a slew of robots and artificial intelligences. Here's a roundup of the tech-centric commercials.

Here’s a Roundup of All the Super Bowl Ads About Robots and AI

By Kristin Houser

The consensus: it's not just Futurism readers who hate the idea of space billboards — scientists are worried about the concept as well.

Experts Respond to Orbiting Space Billboards: “Harmful”

By Jon Christian

Russian startup StartRocket says it wants to display enormous billboard-style advertisements in the night sky using arrays of cubesats.

This Startup Wants to Launch Giant Glowing Ads Into the Night Sky

By Jon Christian

ai job loss automation

Artificial Intelligence

An Ad Agency Now Has the World’s First AI Creative Director