They tested it and dropped it — copy the angle, not the exact creative.
Ran for 15 days across 1 GEO but hasn't been seen in over a week.
Running in a single market (United Kingdom) — a focused test, not a broad rollout yet.
- Seen 15/30 days
- 1 GEO
- Redirect chain checked
- LP host: computerworld.com
Reverse-engineered from the live ad — longevity, GEOs, and the affiliate funnel behind it. Verified by following the redirect chain on May 31. Free, no login.
Funnel, reverse-engineered
The campaign behind this creative
← the actual path the money takes.
Creative
Computerworld
Landing page
computerworld.com
where it lands
Tracker
not detected
Affiliate network
not detected
How we know: we followed the live redirect chain from this creative and fingerprinted each hop. Greyed nodes weren’t detected.
Cooling off
running 15d · last seen 11d ago · 1 market
No fresh sightings in over a week — momentum has dropped. Study it, don't chase it.
Gravity
32/100
push pressure now · 30d index
Strength
35/100
overall scale · 30d index
Run
15d
last seen 11d ago
Markets
1
countries seen
Landing page
computerworld.com
final host
Screenshot
—
not captured yet
Operator
—
unidentified
Network
Taboola
traffic source
Is Your Work Laptop Camera Judging How You Feel?
Computerworld@computerworld
Some employers are using AI to analyse employees' facial expressions, tone of voice, and typing patterns to assess their mood and attitude. The science behind it is deeply questionable.
Top 25% longevity in network
Days alive is a profitability proxy — advertisers don’t pay to run losers.
Seen in
Geo reach
Single-geo testa single marketPredominantly Tier 1 — United Kingdom.
What the data shows
Computerworld's Taboola creative has been running for 15 days across 1 country and first seen on May 15, 2026 and last seen on May 31, 2026. It has been observed in United Kingdom. The ad lands on computerworld.com. On our 30-day observation series the creative has run in intermittent bursts over the last 30 days. Computerworld is running 8 other creatives we have indexed, linked below for side-by-side comparison.
Creative headline: Is Your Work Laptop Camera Judging How You Feel?. Indexed on Taboola by mediabuyer.
Landing page intelligence
Where this ad lands
The lander is the product — screenshot, redirect chain, offer, tech stack, and on-page text in one place.
Landing page not captured yet
Our crawler renders each advertiser’s funnel on a rolling schedule. Recently observed ads are queued first — check back to see the full-page screenshot.
Host
computerworld.com
Path
/article/4171382/the-trouble-with-emotion-reading-ai.html
Full URL
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4171382/the-trouble-with-emotion-reading-ai.html
Redirect chain
Chain not captured yet.
Final host: computerworld.com. Hop-by-hop capture runs as a separate pipeline; ads observed in recent ingests get crawled first.
Tracking parameters
No query string on this URL.
Tracking setup · Taboola
Taboola passes site, site_id, campaign_id, campaign_item_id and click-id by default. Map those to your tracker's source/sub1-4 fields. Use {click_id} as your unique click identifier when posting back conversions.
?site={site}&site_id={site_id}&campaign_id={campaign_id}&campaign_item_id={campaign_item_id}&click-id={click_id}Default Taboola setup template: ?site={site}&site_id={site_id}&campaign_id={campaign_id}&campaign_item_id={campaign_item_id}&click-id={click_id}
Tech stack
No third-party monetization stack detected — this appears to be a direct landing page.
Landing page hubs
Landing page text
On-page text not extracted yet.
Observed daily (last 30 days)
Apr 25 → May 24·peaks May 17
30-day run pattern
PulsedIntermittent runs with quiet stretches — likely paused for budget cycles or rotation against fresher creatives.
- Coverage
- 23% of 30d
- Peak surge
- 2× vs median
- Last 7d
- 14
- WoW
- +100%
Peak day: — 2× the median day, indicating a deliberate budget push.
Window: Apr 25 → May 24
Sibling creatives from this campaign
Other creatives in Other on Taboola
The rest of the set they’re running — see what else this angle is paired with.
The Two-Minute Android Trick Most People Have Never Heard Of
The Software Watching Your Face, Voice and Typing to Score Your Mood
This Free App Makes Your Android Feel Like a New Phone
Most Android Users Don't Know Their Phone Can Do This
Give Your Android a Desktop Taskbar in Under Two Minutes
The EU Banned This Workplace AI. UK Employers Can Still Use It.
Your Employer's AI May Be Watching Your Face to Judge Your Attitude
Companies Are Using AI to Read Your Emotions at Work. It Doesn't Work.
Tested headline variants
Computerworld's own A/B test — which headline they kept
The advertiser’s own A/B result, handed over: ranked by days running, the survivor on top. Variants they stopped running are struck through — they tested and killed those angles.
- #1The Two-Minute Android Trick Most People Have Never Heard OfKilled16d6 content tokens
- #2The Software Watching Your Face, Voice and Typing to Score Your MoodKilled16d7 content tokens
- #3This Free App Makes Your Android Feel Like a New PhoneKilled15d7 content tokens
- #4Your Employer's AI May Be Watching Your Face to Judge Your AttitudeKilled15d6 content tokens
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