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Trishla Ostwal

Trishla is Adweek's tech policy reporter covering big tech through the lens of privacy and security, data protection, regulation, antitrust and more. A 2021 graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Trishla previously worked as an agency strategist and content creator for 22feet Tribal Worldwide and Yellow Seed.

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How the CMOs of Strava, Vimeo and GitLab Use AI to Grow Revenue

Artificial Intelligence

Privacy, content ownership and cost remain challenges.

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Uber’s First Chief Privacy Officer on Finding Mindfulness and a Trip to Vegas

The Future of Identity

Uber is a company with revenues of  $31.8 billion in 2022, with an ads business worth $500 million.

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Publishers Seek More Money From Platforms to Pacify Their AI Woes

Artificial Intelligence

A similar bill in Australia has led to publishers collectively extract hundreds of millions from platforms.

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California Ramps Up Efforts to Regulate AI

Artificial Intelligence

The California Privacy Protection Agency is turning its attention towards data regulation issues around AI under its privacy law.

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Requests for Companies to Delete People’s Data Have Soared

Data

52% of the privacy requests were outside of California, including states that have yet to implement a privacy law.

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What Utah’s New Social Media Law Means for Marketers

Data Security

The law could inversely raise CPMs and cause inflation for ads that would ideally run between 10.30 p.m. and 6.30 a.m.

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AI Tools Have Publishers Fretting Over ‘Fair Use’ and Revenue Loss

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is willing to pay for high-quality data, such as science, that is used to feed ChatGPT.

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Republican Buyers Are Enthusiastic About Getting Back on Twitter Post Its Political Ads Ban

Platforms

Republican ad buyers allocate nearly 25% of their media budget to Twitter, and the range for Democratic advertisers is between 1%-5%.

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Some Advertisers Slowly Test Other Platforms Ahead of TikTok’s Congress Testimony

Platforms

Top 1,000 U.S. advertisers boosted their ad spend on TikTok by 66% to $467 million from September to October 2022.