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Digital Competition Bill can stifle opportunities for MSMEs while aiming for a fairer market

A fundamental flaw of the DCB is that it conflates advertisers, publishers, and third-party ad solution providers as a single entity under the umbrella term ‘advertising services’.

YouTube okayed ads with polls disinfo, report finds. ‘Ads withdrawn before our checks,’ says platform

Access Now & Global Witness, as part of an investigation, sent YouTube dummy ads with content about voter suppression, and misleading information on voting age, ahead of India's LS polls.

Criticism, kindness, complaints—ThePrint readers don’t hold back. And we don’t want them to

Complaints are the most common feature of readers’ mail. Much of this mail is still stuck on the same issue of partisanship—this suggests that we haven't moved on from historical resentments.

Ranveer Singh-Johnny Sins ad has an unlikely hero—women’s pleasure

The tone of the ad marks a departure from the conventional landscape of sexual wellness advertisements. To watch a woman talking about sexual dissatisfaction is new.

Meta looks at $14 monthly plan for ad-free Instagram, Facebook in EU, reports WSJ

Under the plan, Meta would charge roughly 10 euros ($10.46) a month on a desktop for a Facebook or Instagram account.

‘All wool’ for mixed fabric: Ad regulator flags ‘misleading or incorrect’ descriptions by brands

White paper by Advertising Standards Council of India and law firm K&S partners highlights how practice of misleading product descriptions continues to plague ad industry.

Not just Layer’r Shot—Indian brands are banking on ‘spit and run’ publicity

The low cost and high impact strategy is fast becoming the go-to for brands looking to establish themselves in a saturated market.

I&B ministry tells YouTube, Twitter to remove ‘inappropriate’ Layer’r Shot ads, stops TV telecast

The 2 ads, aired on Sony Liv during England versus New Zealand match, were earlier suspended by Advertising Standards Council of India following criticism for being 'disrespectful towards women'.

From Zoozoos to Byju’s, Swiggy, Cred — how IPL ads tell us who’s watching cricket in India

The high-entertainment IPL draws millions of viewers, making it perfect marketing space. But now, more than traditional brands, e-commerce businesses dominate the space.

Inside story of how billionaires of big-brand pan masala industry got around an ad ban

Despite ban on advertisement and sale of pan masala and gutka, the industry's biggest brands and barons have thrived by using IPL, fancy commercials and Bollywood stars.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.