Mark Reback

On Tuesday, Google revealed its seven predictions about online display advertising in 2015 at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Mixx conference. The next day, the group Consumer Watchdog placed a digital ad in Times Square that called Google “chicken” for not accepting invitations to debate issues about the online privacy of consumers.Here is a look back at some of the highlights, lowlights and sidelights of the seventh annual Advertising Week, which took place from Monday through Friday in New York.

Peterborough, Ontario -- July 18, 2016 -- Consumer Watchdog is lobbying both the US government and American automotive giant Tesla Motors to implement new driving regulations on the company’s range of potentially groundbreaking autonomous vehicles.

Urmson explained that Google is working closely with Foxx's team and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about regulation of these vehicles.

Proposition 33, a proposal to offer discounts to car insurance customers even if they change companies, is another attempt by Mercury Insurance to manipulate the marketplace.

Mercury Chairman George Joseph is bankrolling the initiative, contributing almost all of the $16.6 million campaign fund. Opponents have raised $222,800.