 | | Recently, Meta has spent millions to flood TV airwaves with an odd new commercial advertising something even more curious: advertising itself. In this week’s debut column, Branded, Rob Walker looks at Meta’s ad blitz and what it means for the future of the company in its escalating war with Apple over internet privacy. “What’s going on here is a departure from the more familiar Coke versus Pepsi style of ad war, pitting two fundamentally similar products against each other,” writes Walker. “The competition here is between totally different business models, with their distinct implications not just for customers (or users) but for society in general.” Read his column here. —Bobbie Gossage, @bobbiegossage | | | | | |
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