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The combination will give Nexstar 265 stations in 132 of 210 TV markets. Nexstar currently has more than 200 stations, while Tegna owns 64 TV stations. ... read more

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Mor Klier has joined Skai to lead the omnichannel marketing platform's commerce, retail media, and generative AI businesses as EVP of product. One goal is to create a new type of measurement and optimization system ... read more

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The earliest backers of Ayaneo’s Indiegogo campaign can preorder the Pocket DS at a discount. | Image: Ayaneo First announced just a few weeks ago in late July, the Ayaneo ... read more

The Mix feature is currently in beta. Spotify is testing a new audio mixing feature that allows you to customize track transitions for your playlists. Now rolling out in beta ... read more

"Alexa, did the Mavs win?" That's usually what I hear from my son's room when he wakes up in the morning. Usually followed by "Alexa, what's the weather?" or "Alexa, what time is it?"; the ... read more

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Acrobat, now for more than just PDFs. Adobe is introducing a new Acrobat platform that combines the PDF app with its Adobe Express content creation service and AI assistants that ... read more

SoftBank will invest $2 billion into Intel as the struggling chipmaker pulls back on spending and lays off thousands of workers. In an announcement, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said the ... read more

Digital out-of-home (DOOH) media has always flown outside the advertising mainstream. A four-letter acronym? It’s almost unimaginable. However, DOOH ad platforms are working hard to make the channel more accessible to advertisers who need simplicity ... read more

CBS's annual year-end telecast of "The Kennedy Center Honors" is shaping up as the "Trump Center Honors" in the wake of President Trump naming himself host of this year's event. ... read more

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Whether it’s sponsored content, advertorials, content recommendation widgets, branded content or product placement, native advertising has been around for a long time. But for a supply-side platform to deliver native ads on the open web ... read more

Audio advertising presents a paradox: It’s an increasingly popular form of media, making up between 20% and 30% of consumption time in the US, depending on the source, but it’s woefully underrepresented in terms of ... read more

Consolidation among media agencies large and small has been widely expected since Omnicom proposed acquiring Interpublic Group last December. To a large extent, the industry hasn’t disappointed, with Indies merging to form bigger Indies, and ... read more

Apple secures a victory in its fight against the UK’s encryption access demands. The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected ... read more

Walmart has some new rules for third-party sellers; WPP wins Mastercard; and marketers should get into VTubers. The post Walmart’s Brand-to-Seller Balance; For Everything Else, There’s WPP appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

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This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Yvonne Jackson said that before February, making a Target run was more than just a simple errand — it was a part of her lifestyle.  ... read more

Meta’s Superintelligence Group has started turning up in marketer pitches. So far, its generating curiosity — and confusion.  As Chris Matheson, media director at Markacy pointed out, marketers and investors will be looking for proof ... read more

For creators, AI is less about hype and more about savings: cutting out the need to hire extra support they may have once needed. AI has become a key tool in the creative processes of ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Kristi Argyilan has spent the last decade building out retail media businesses at the likes of Target, Albertsons and now Uber. She’s seen the RMN boom from the early ... read more

As artificial intelligence transforms the advertising world, brands will need flexible, modular platforms to thrive — not rigid, one-size-fits-all solutions. That’s the vision Simon Asselin, chief technology officer at digital advertising firm Infillion, shared in ... read more

CANNES – With retail media networks multiplying and brands demanding better measurement, Instacart’s Adam Silverblatt believes the industry is headed toward consolidation, and accountability will be the deciding factor. Speaking at the Cannes Lions International ... read more

AMENIA, NY — When it comes to media operations, artificial intelligence may be “democratizing” everything between competitors. However, the playing field may be anything but level when AI is used internally with media operators.  “There’s ... read more

Newsmax defends its reporting on the 2020 election. In a statement on Monday, Newsmax said it "has always maintained its reporting was not defamatory and its coverage was consistent with accepted journalistic standards." ... read more

Amazon will shutter its Appstore for the Android operating system, as well as its Coins program this week, the company said. ... read more

Roblox says it is applying its policy prohibiting romantic and sexual content for younger users to content and behavior that "implies" sexual activity - and promising to restrict "all unrated experiences (previously restricted to users ... read more

It’s been two and a half years since Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service got a big boost in graphics, latency, and refresh rates — this September, Nvidia’s GFN will ... read more

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be the first game to get Nvidia’s new RTX Hair features next month. Instead of using triangles to model hair, Nvidia will use ... read more

The Nvidia app is getting improvements to DLSS override, more control panel features, and Project G-Assist changes this week. Nvidia has been gradually improving its new app over the past ... read more

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting a big upgrade next month — and it’s also part of an intriguing new experiment. Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games have teamed up for an ... read more

Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer now known for his science-focused stunts he publishes to more than 70 million subscribers on YouTube, will launch a competition show on Netflix in ... read more

A federal judge dismissed the claims last month, effectively ruling that Amazon's agreement with Prime subscribers allowed the company to charge more for ad-free videos. ... read more

Older Nest thermostat users can finally uninstall the older dedicated Nest app. | Image: Google Google has announced that users of the US and UK versions of the 3rd gen ... read more

Two years ago we learned, thanks to the FTC, that Microsoft was working on a separate “dedicated” version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. Microsoft Gaming CFO Tim Stuart then hinted, a ... read more

The announcement marks a major shift toward Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to automate ad creation - including targeting, creative and measurement across its family of apps. ... read more

Roblox is updating its policies prohibiting romantic or sexual content to also forbid “content, settings, or behavior that implies sexual activity,” according to a Friday post from chief safety officer ... read more

The Interactive Advertising Bureau announced actor Kevin Bacon will headline its Annual Leadership Meeting (ALM) in Palm Springs, CA early next year. ... read more

An appeals court has upheld a Federal Communications Commission order fining T-Mobile $92 million for sharing wireless customers' location data. ... read more

Prime Video has released new photos from season two of Fallout. Lucy (Ella Purnell), the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), and Maximus (Aaron Moten) return as a trio of Wasteland Wanderers whose ... read more

Just two weeks after raising the prices of its cameras by up to $800, Fujifilm is warning customers about another increase for US customers. In a statement provided to DPReview, ... read more

The bingo squares were a map of collective readerly sins and quirks: "I prefer audiobooks." "Dog-eared pages instead of using a bookmark." ... read more

Mastercard also announced that WPP creative agency Ogilvy will serve as global community management agency partner to engage online communities in key markets. ... read more

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Paramount Skydance wants to "redefine" its cable channels' "brands" -- not sell them off. ... read more

You can currently get an Apple Watch for $649.99 ($150 off). If you’re interested in a long-lasting smartwatch, and like to stay within Apple’s hardware ecosystem, the Apple Watch Ultra ... read more

What’s the point of a market research survey that could take weeks, when consumer sentiment is rollercoasting up and down every day? That’s the problem MX8 Labs aims to tackle. The new startup is trying ... read more

The new brand name will be MS NOW (My Source News Opinion World), according to an internal memo sent to employees under Versant, a new spinoff company that will house NBC cable TV networks. ... read more

Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot can now end conversations deemed “persistently harmful or abusive,” as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. The capability is now available in Opus 4 and 4.1 models, and ... read more

It's not just political leadership either. A majority of Americans lack faith in leadership across business, healthcare, education and government according to a new Harris Poll survey. ... read more

MSNBC is about to look a lot — and sound — a lot different. The cable news network will soon go by My Source News Opinion World (MS NOW) and ... read more

It’s been a decade since Spotify introduced podcasts to its app. Now, Spotify hosts millions of podcasts and, according to Edison Research, 26% of US podcast listeners use Spotify as their preferred service. And last ... read more

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 FE. | Image: Samsung The Fan Edition Galaxy Buds 3 have ditched the blob for a stemmed design popularized by Apple and found in Samsung’s higher ... read more

Predicted score 78/100. | Image: Grammarly Grammarly is launching several new AI agents for specific writing challenges, from educators trying to detect plagiarism and AI-generated text to students looking to ... read more

Sponsored by SovrnBy 2027, the U.S. commerce media market is projected to top $100 billion, accounting for more than 20% of total advertising budgets. Retail media networks are a major driver of this growth, but ... read more

During the last half month, we've covered a lot of interesting gadgets and apps and thought we'd highlight a few that caught our attention the most. For example, we have ... read more

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A federal judge has blocked the agency from attempting to force Media Matters to turn over information relating to a report about brand safety on X. ... read more

The six-year relationship extends with a new three-year contract starting in January 2026. ... read more

Microsoft first introduced a dark mode option in Windows 10 in 2016, but there were still plenty of areas of the operating system that looked like a mish-mash of light ... read more

In ad tech, group thinking is the silent killer.  It convinces great companies to keep playing the same game long after the rules have changed. Too many leaders keep reaching for the same playbook that ... read more

Neil Dhanowa, former global head of Display & Video 360, resigned in mid-August from Google to help build Microsoft's AI advertising strategy. ... read more

Perplexity didn’t just try to buy Chrome; product placement in TV and film is on the rise; and the FCC is on one again. The post Less Perplexing Offers; Product Displacement Deals appeared first ... read more

From an area of the industry that wasn’t really taken seriously, to an area now seen as more mature and a core business function, the creator economy has already expanded bigger and far quicker than ... read more

2025 is shaping up to be the year of the VTuber — and as audience interest in this nascent category of creator grows, advertisers are starting to buy in. Although VTubers — livestreamers or video creators ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail After seeing “tremendous success with brick-and-mortar” retail in Canada, the intimates brand Knix is honing in on the U.S. market, its founder Joanna Griffiths told Modern ... read more

The promise of generative AI was to make marketing faster and cheaper, optimizing everything from media operations to creative. But in Silicon Valley’s push to give marketers a one-stop-shop with AI, marketers say AI has ... read more

As users adopt AI search tools like Google’s AI Overviews or ChatGPT in lieu of traditional search engines, clients are worried about what exactly generative AI search tools are saying about their brands and whether ... read more

AMENIA, NY — First-party data has earned its valorization the last few years, particularly among the brands that tend to own it. But that doesn’t mean third-party data, which has had its ups and downs ... read more

CANNES – The scramble for first-party data may have been a necessary reaction to signal loss, but it has left many brands with a new problem: a trove of information they don’t fully know how ... read more

CANNES – Connected TV audiences have raced far ahead of the infrastructure meant to support them, ad and media leaders said in this panel discussion hosted by Beet.TV at the Cannes Lions International Festival of ... read more

CANNES – Connected TV audiences have raced far ahead of the infrastructure meant to support them, ad and media leaders said in this panel discussion hosted by Beet.TV at the Cannes Lions International Festival of ... read more

In a recent episode of Post Games, host Chris Plante explores how video games can help players understand death. He's interviewing Kaitlin Tremblay, who is working on Ambrosia Sky, a ... read more

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Some people like to stay on the cutting edge of technology. If that’s you, you already know that Google is going to officially unveil its Pixel 10 phones (including a ... read more

Dead Take, the second game from Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios, is a quiet horror game where the monster is ambition and the lengths a person will go ... read more

At the end of July, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) convened a three-day public hearing to investigate January's mid-air collision over Washington, DC that killed 67 people. After the ... read more

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – SEPTEMBER 10, 2024: Laura Loomer arrives at Philadelphia International Airport on The Trump Organization’s Boeing 757. | Photo: Getty Images For all the power she wields with ... read more

The state of Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, alleging that the company has “permitted and perpetuated an online environment in which child predators thrive, directly contributing to the ... read more

There's a meme currently going around Bluesky where people are posting their first purchases on Steam. Taking a look presents a neat time capsule, offering a glimpse of who we ... read more

Now that Congress has passed a bill that will defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS is taking drastic measures to stay alive. In an email sent out to PBS ... read more

If you’ve ever juggled a phone, a smartwatch, and a pair of wireless earbuds, you know the struggle of keeping them all charged. Rather than go through the process of ... read more

Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, Special Representative for Climate Change, Panama, speaks at a press conference ahead of the final INC-5.2 Negotiation plenary Session, warning negotiators that a weak treaty will fail the ... read more

Anthropic has updated the usage policy for its Claude AI chatbot in response to growing concerns about safety. In addition to introducing stricter cybersecurity rules, Anthropic now specifies some of ... read more

Lamborghini makes fast cars; this is an indisputable fact. So when the iconic Italian automaker says it’s new plug-in hybrid is both “the most powerful V12 every built” and “the ... read more

TikTok has introduced updates to its Community Guidelines, providing clearer language regarding its policies, while presenting new rules and standards addressing concerns about the continued spread of artificial misinformation. ... read more

On the spectrum of nice-, want- and need-to-have, there's now academic proof that ethics can make you a better advertising pro. Who would have thought? ... read more

The deal is backed by JP Morgan and several private equity groups. Ad.com, which has extensive experience in advertising, acquired Search.com in July. ... read more

As economists speculate whether the stock market is in an AI bubble that could soon burst, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just admitted to believing we're in one. "Are we ... read more