Marketing Fraud Continues to Grow in 2021, and Ad Companies Are Clueless
A new report from White Ops demonstrates that marketing fraud is growing, but that many in the online advertising space may not realize exactly how much the problem has grown in the past year. Oh, it’s pretty bad. According to MediaPost, 43% of respondents in the survey said survey said they could not estimate how … Read more
FTC Order Requires Company and Its Owner to Pay $146,249, and Stop Making Deceptive ‘Made in USA’ Claims
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that a company that sells customizable promotional products such as wristbands, lanyards, temporary tattoos, and buttons, and its owner, will settle FTC charges that they made false, misleading, or unsupported advertising claims that their products were all or virtually all made in the United States. The settlement requires the company and … Read more
FTC Clarifies Social Media Advertising Policies
Attorneys Holland & Knight hosted Michael Ostheimer, a senior attorney for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for a webinar presentation on Feb. 16, 2021. Ostheimer has been with the FTC for three decades, currently serving as a senior staff attorney with the FTC’s Division of Advertising Practices. During the interview, Holland & Knight Partners Anthony … Read more
FTC Sues Facebook for Social Network Monopolization
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it has sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct. Following a lengthy investigation in cooperation with a coalition of attorneys general of 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam, the complaint alleges that … Read more
Alessandro Benigni: Racist, Money Launderer and Scammer Bitcoin
Unfortunately, Bitcoin scams are probably the vast majority of “bitcoin investments” and this guy is no different. Not only is he hawking bitcoin investment scams, but seems to be a bit on the racist side, making rude comments all over LinkedIn about black folks. Not only is he pushing offshore Bitcoin money laundering, but for … Read more
Growth Hacking Marketing: From the Experts
According to the Oxford dictionary, hacking is ‘the gaining of unauthorized access to data in a system or computer’ and we all know that. Well, the marketing world has certainly turned this negative into a commonly used positive verb when it comes to accelerating growth from a data and digital marketing perspective. It’s a fascinating … Read more