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The New Chrome Ad Filter – What you need to know

Feb16

A Marketers Guide to the New Google Chrome Ad Blocker They were the best of ads, they were the worst of ads.  – A tale of two adblockers Yesterday, Google updated their Chrome browser to include ad “filtering”. The new Chrome ad filter will automatically begin to filter out or “block” the most annoying ads on the internet. I have spoken with both Google and Ben Williams from Adblock Plus to tackle what the new Chrome filter will block, what it won’t

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Ad-mageddon! Ad blocking, its impact, and what comes next

publishing went boom
Nov07

MarketingLand recently published my latest article on Ad Blocking. Give it a read and let me know where you think things are going. Also, feel free to shoot me any topics you would like to see covered (in a way no one dares cover it). I embedded the video breakdown below. 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