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The company's Ads Manager, its tool that lets users create advertisements on its social network, crashed on Tuesday, leaving would-be advertisers unable to create new ad campaigns just days before Thanksgiving and crucial Black Friday sales.
The outage is unusual in its duration; and when the story was written, the system has been down for more than eight hours, one source who buys ads on the platform told Business Insider.
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'A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity': Amazon reportedly bid for Disney's 22 regional sports networks, and a bidding frenzy that tops $25 billion could follow. The company looks at the RSNs as a chance to bolster its sports offerings and could use it as another catalyst for Prime subscriber growth, an analyst told Business Insider.
A GDPR warning France's data-protection regulator issued to a little-known mobile ad-tech firm is causing ripples of excitement to run through privacy watchers in Europe, TechCrunch reports. Vectuary, a small DSP, was using the GDPR consent framework endorsed by industry association IAB Europe to collect consent strings from its many partners, but was ordered to delete the data.
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