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Marketers from T-Mobile to Simon Malls are capitalizing on the smartphone game, which sends players roaming the real world to catch virtual creatures like Jigglypuffs and grab virtual objects. Niantic, the Google spinoff that developed the game, says it will let marketers pay to become locations that will attract players. It will charge marketers by the visit, the way search ads charge per click. The McDonald's name and logo are already embedded in the app's Android code, observers said last week, as Gizmodo reported. But there was no sign of sponsored locations in the game yet, or of negotiations to sell them. Can Netflix Survive in the New World It Created? This was around the time that network executives started to recognize the threat that Netflix could eventually constitute to them.
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Between the growing number of television cord-cutters, the rise of ad blockers and the ongoing struggle to effectively connect with people on their mobile devices, there's no longer a guarantee that anyone will look at the things advertisers make. The captive audience they once enjoyed in America's living rooms is fading fast — a victim to all-consuming changes in the ways people watch television, read the news and browse the web.
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