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Changing ad formats are not automatically ethical failures
Changing ad formats are not automatically ethical failures
Smith argues that media conventions around advertising change over time and that unfamiliar formats should not automatically be treated as corrupt, while maintaining a need for independent editorial operations.
- Speaker
- Ben Smith
- Topic
- Advertising Ethics
- Source timestamp
- 43:50
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