Two trends are emerging in the world of AI and search: AI platforms are sending more traffic to publishers’ sites, while Google’s AI Overviews is reducing click-throughs across more search queries. Recent data is helping ... read more

Linda Yaccarino had the title. She had the industry patter, the resume and the profile. What she didn’t have was control — or at least not the kind that mattered. Her role was never about ... read more

The company's revised full-year organic revenue decline is now expected to be between 3% and 5%. The second quarter decline alone is between 5.5% and 6%. ... read more

Household TV ad impressions in June 2025 totaled 15.5 billion, down 25.2% compared to 20.7 billion in June 2024 ... read more

Heart rate monitoring, here we come. The Powerbeats Pro 2 are only a few months old, but they’re already on sale for an all-time low of around $179.95 ($70 off) ... read more

Aiming to revive its claims against Omnicom Group, Compass Marketing filed an amended complaint against the ad agency holding company on Tuesday. ... read more

As Meta prioritizes wearable technologies, its 3% stake of EssilorLuxottica could potentially increase to 5%, according to a report by Bloomberg. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has predicted that smart glasses will overtake smartphones in the ... read more

"We are prepared to use the full weight of our enforcement authority to protect consumer privacy," Connecticut Attorney General William Tong stated. ... read more

The Tile Slim can help you keep track of your wallet — and it’s currently on sale for 30 percent off. Day one of Amazon Prime Day is in the ... read more

On June 24th, Columbia University experienced an hourslong system-wide outage. Its internal email service went down. Students couldn't log in to the platform where professors post assignments and course materials. ... read more

Apple is preparing to launch its next Vision Pro headset “as early as this year,” according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The upcoming device will reportedly feature an ... read more

A federal appellate court rejected Yelp's petition to reconsider a decision that allowed Texas to proceed with a lawsuit against the review site over warning labels on so-called "crisis pregnancy centers." ... read more

Summer travel season is in full swing, and whether you’re headed to the beach, a weekend getaway, or just staying home in the A/C, here are some good Prime Day ... read more

CANNES — It’s not just a marker of Cannes Lions’ expansion that a payments company like PayPal was a key fixture at this year’s event. It’s also a symptom of PayPal’s own emergence into the ... read more

CANNES — In an advertising ecosystem grappling with signal loss and privacy demands, the prevailing wisdom has often involved centralizing vast pools of consumer data. A new approach, however, posits that the future of data ... read more

CANNES – At a time when identity-based targeting faces mounting challenges, Ogury is betting on a fundamentally different approach: targeting personas rather than people. “Our methodology is based on effectively finding audiences that have the ... read more

MethaneSat was built to track methane pollution around the world. A satellite tracking global methane pollution has gone dark, imperiling  a mission that garnered enormous support from Jeff Bezos and ... read more

It’s tough to beat a 55-inch OLED TV selling for $800. | Image: Panasonic Let me try to read your mind. You’re thinking of getting a new TV, yes, a ... read more

The flexible arm on Anker’s new wireless charger can be bent up and down to find the ideal position for your smartphone. | Image: Anker Anker has released a new ... read more

OpenAI has officially closed its nearly $6.5 billion acquisition of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famed former Apple designer Jony Ive, the company announced Wednesday. But it was careful to only ... read more

After just over two years at X, CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down from the role. “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of ... read more

Comet’s AI assistant can answer questions about what’s on your screen. | Image: Perplexity Perplexity, the startup behind the AI “answer” engine, has just launched its own web browser. The ... read more

Amazon Prime Day is in full swing, and we’ve been particularly struck by the deep discounts on smartwatches and fitness trackers. The Apple Watch Series 10 and Amazfit Active 2, ... read more

Yaccarino announced her departure from X less than two years after becoming the company's chief executive. In a post on X, Yaccarino highlights her responsibilities at the company, including "protecting free speech, turning the company ... read more

Google scrapes profit from advertisers through heavy use of hidden search terms, as advertisers continue to see a decline in search query data. ... read more

Microsoft's complicated relationship with OpenAI is about to take an interesting turn. As the pair continue to renegotiate a contract to allow OpenAI to restructure into a for-profit company, OpenAI ... read more

Editor’s note: Amazon Prime Day 2025 is officially underway. If you’re looking to make the most of the four-day shopping extravaganza, we’ve put together a guide to the best Prime Day deals you ... read more

It may not surprise anyone who is tech-aware that publications such as The Verge track the affiliate links that are clicked by their readers — in fact, every article that ... read more

Samsung’s summer Galaxy Unpacked event has come to a close. As expected, the company unveiled next-generation Galaxy Z Flip and Fold smartphones, as well as three new additions to its ... read more

Samsung’s latest clamshell-style foldable is officially here, and it brought a new, more affordable sibling to the party. The Z Flip 7 was announced at Samsung’s summer Unpacked event this ... read more

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as CEO of X after two years running the company, she announced today. She was appointed its CEO in the year after Elon Musk bought ... read more

Adams will be joined by Marissa Jimenez, who joins from Dentsu to serve on the new Stagwell Media Platform. He also continues as Assembly Global COO. ... read more

Apple typically doesn’t discount its own hardware, which makes Prime Day deals on its gear so appealing. We’ve rounded up the best Apple Watch Prime Day deals, and we’re particularly ... read more

Just look at these beauts. Samsung just announced its seventh-generation folding phones, and it finally retired the long and narrow Z Fold design that it had stuck with for far ... read more

Here’s the new Galaxy Watch 8 lineup. From left to right: 40mm Galaxy Watch 8, 44mm Watch 8, Classic, and the Ultra. One thing is immediately noticeable as I try ... read more

Google is bringing some AI support updates to Samsung’s latest generation of Galaxy foldables and watches. Google is adding new AI features to Android’s Circle to Search and Gemini Live ... read more

He's the top candidate in terms of media speculation and a couple of sports books also have him as the odds-on favorite. ... read more

WPP's stock tumbled in intraday trading Wednesday morning after the agency holding company reported "tougher macro" conditions and "weaker new business conditions" in its first-half update to investors. ... read more

A federal appeals court just threw out a new government regulation that would have required subscription services to give consumers an easy way to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel ... read more

Long before the AI hype kicked off in earnest, Eric Schwartz was already working with machine learning tools to develop optimized ad tech products. The post Scibids Alum Eric Schwartz Joins AI Sales Optimization Startup ... read more

A+E Global Media - co-owned 50-50% by Walt Disney and Hearst - is looking to possibly sell their interest in the group, according to a report. ... read more

Gross subscriber additions rose to 52 million in Q1 2025 - up from 50 million the previous year, according to Antenna. Those gross additions come from 34 streaming platforms. ... read more

Updates made to the IAB Diligence Platform on Wednesday aim to help the digital ad industry comply with evolving privacy regulations. ... read more

Samsung is set to announce its latest folding phones, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Galaxy Z Flip 7, and maybe a more affordable Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE, during its ... read more

The "Institute" in the series' title is a shadowy facility that houses genius children who have been kidnapped from their families. ... read more

It’s the second day of Amazon’s four-day Prime Day sale, and if you’ve held out on making impulse buys so you can make informed purchases, you’ve come to the right ... read more

After announcing in May that it was giving up and returning to HBO Max branding for its streaming service, today Warner Bros. has officially made the change. The new / ... read more

Amazon Prime Day is the best time to save money on a Nintendo Switch OLED during a time when there aren’t any deals on the last-gen console (however, there are ... read more

Call of Duty: WWII is currently unavailable through the Microsoft Store. | Image: Activision Activision has taken one of its Call of Duty games down from the Microsoft Store and ... read more

Ikea is powering up its Dirigera smart home hub, adding Matter controller functionality and activating its Thread radio to support its new line of smart home products. Ikea is relaunching ... read more

Ikea’s Blomprakt Bluetooth speaker with an integrated LED light bulb has a dedicated Spotify Tap button. | Image: Ikea Bluetooth and quick-to-music features like Spotify Tap are the future of ... read more

Charli xcx got it right: It’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl. Or, more accurately, a woman trying to access medical treatment. And it’s just as challenging for women’s health care companies trying to ... read more

The advertising industry continues to buy connected TV the wrong way. We have carried over one-to-one programmatic logic from display and online video into a channel that behaves nothing like them. CTV is not a ... read more

Fresh Legs HouseFresh, a website dedicated to reviewing air purifiers and household air quality products, was one of the first (of a great many) long-tail consumer review sites to lash out at Google after its ... read more

Whenever ad dollars swell around new channels — search, social, email — the industry reaches for the same playbook: cut out the middle, get closer to the source, and stop paying for junk reach. The ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Publishers have always had a love/hate relationship with digital transformation. It’s given them more ways than ever to reach ... read more

Google’s AI ambitions are moving fast, and the old architecture of search advertising is starting to show its age. As user behavior shifts toward more conversational, visual queries, the need for automation is growing. But ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing previews next week’s CTV Advertising Strategies event that I’ll be hosting with top brand and agency executives in New York City. Must-CTV TikTok’s U.S.-only app, A+E Global Media’s ... read more

Related Insights The Programmatic Marketer To reduce auction duplication, buyers start to enforce sellers.json Read More On the face of things, request duplication, or “bid duplication” as some ... read more

On Tuesday, X users observed Grok celebrating Adolf Hitler and making antisemitic posts, and X owner xAI now says it’s “actively working to remove” what it calls “inappropriate posts” made ... read more

The Sonos Ace are available for $299 — their best price to date — for a limited time. Amazon’s latest Prime Day sale has officially begun, and we’ve already highlighted ... read more

Fraud-free ad inventory supported by safety and metrics that can analyze content to help advertisers and publishers meet media-quality requirements seems an ideal match - even for smaller companies. ... read more

Fraud-free ad inventory supported by safety and metrics that can analyze content to help advertisers and publishers reach global media-quality requirements is the goal of the partnership. ... read more

Since Navah Hopkins joined Microsoft Advertising as Ads Liaison, she has been detailing how to successfully create ads and run them on the company's ad platform. ... read more

Since Navah Hopkins joined Microsoft Advertising as Ads Liaison, she has been detailing how to successfully create ads and run them on the company's ad platform. ... read more

Over the last two weeks, I've sought to uncover why the Nintendo Switch 2 didn't work with a host of USB-C accessories that worked perfectly fine with other devices, including ... read more

Prime Day 2025 is the best time this year to get a big-screen TV. Sure, there are deals in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, but those are ... read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook is about to take over one of the most significant parts of Apple’s business: its design team. The team currently reports to COO Jeff Williams, but ... read more

In a significant albeit preliminary win for the president, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plans to drastically reshape federal agencies by laying ... read more

8BitDo’s excellent Ultimate 2 wireless controller for the Nintendo Switch / Switch 2 is on sale for the first time for Prime Day. Amazon Prime Day is the perfect time ... read more

The brand partnered with Breakthrough T1D, formerly JDRF, a diabetes research organization, to create the doll. ... read more

Jeff Williams will retire later this year. | Image: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple has announced that Sabih Khan, the company’s vice president of operations, will take over ... read more

The AirPods Pro 2 combine excellent sound quality with top-notch ANC, and they offer impressive hearing health features. Before this year’s Prime Day event began, there were already some great ... read more

Everyone knows the TV, tech and ad industries are replete with high-level buzzwords. What will it take to move to practical, operational concerns? For one ad-tech leader, the industry has reached a “tipping point” – ... read more

The new title will offer a monthly digital edition and four print issues per year. ... read more

CANNES — The days of loyalty programs being limited to airline miles or hotel points are over, says Khatidja Ajania, director of strategic partnerships at Kinective Media by United Airlines, the carrier’s advertising network. Speaking ... read more

CANNES — Television may be evolving, but one thing remains constant: advertisers still face the challenge of finding and measuring their audiences across an increasingly fragmented landscape. So says Dave Morgan, founder and chief executive ... read more

Microsoft’s new 12-inch Surface Pro is awesome, and at $115 off at Best Buy, it’s a fantastic deal to jump on during Amazon Prime Day. Both Amazon and Microsoft are ... read more

The IAB, NCTA, Chamber of Commerce and others had challenged the click-to-cancel rules, which were slated to take effect this week. ... read more

Gmail’s Manage subscriptions makes it easier to deal with unwanted emails. | Image: Google Google is introducing a new Gmail feature for those feeling overwhelmed by an onslaught of subscription ... read more

It’s a great time to buy a new TV during Amazon Prime Day (or, days, rather), but that doesn’t mean you should only consider 2025 models. You can get huge ... read more

For years, Warner Bros. Discovery has been playing a desperate game of catchup in hopes of recreating the success that Marvel achieved with its live action comics adaptations. DC movies ... read more

Zoom has rolled out a standalone app for Meta Quest headsets. With the app, you can join or host meetings in virtual reality while appearing as your Meta Avatar. Zoom ... read more

A photo shows flooding caused by a flash flood at the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on July 5th, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images By definition, flash floods are notoriously ... read more

In an attempt to help brands engage and retain customers continuously through in-app messaging, Meta is launching an updated version of marketing messages on Messenger. ... read more

Amazon and Walmart should "monitor, identify, and take corrective action against third-party sellers who make false or misleading 'Made in USA' claims," the FTC says in warning letters. ... read more

Amazon finally has listings for the Nintendo Switch 2 in the US – though right now, you can only register your interest for an invitation to purchase a console. If ... read more

The latest Echo Spot is a surprisingly great alarm clock, and it’s even better at 45 percent off. Amazon Prime Day is an excellent time to save on a wide ... read more

Travelers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint inside the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport (DEN) in Denver, Colorado, US, on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. ... read more

106,642 free posture screenings resulted in a 46% increase in preventative spine check-ups for the advertiser, Croatia Polyclinics. ... read more

Twitter co-founder and Block Head Jack Dorsey launched a new peer-to-peer messaging app over the weekend called Bitchat that runs entirely over Bluetooth. Bitchat relies on Bluetooth Low Energy mesh ... read more

Samsung is preparing to parade the latest Galaxy-branded foldables, wearables, and perhaps some other surprises at its summer Unpacked event tomorrow, July 9th. The show is expected to cap off ... read more

Far-right activist Laura Loomer is asking the Supreme Court to revive her lawsuit against Meta Platforms, X, Procter & Gamble and others over the alleged "censorship" of her online speech. ... read more

Far-right activist Laura Loomer is asking the Supreme Court to revive her lawsuit against Meta Platforms, X, Procter & Gamble and others over the alleged "censorship" of her online speech. ... read more

Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at The New York Times to make astonishingly bad news judgments. The paper's obsession with a view from nowhere is long-standing, ... read more

National CineMedia is projected to be hit with lower ad revenue due to "softer ad trends" as a result of tariff issues in the near term, according to B. Riley Securities. ... read more

Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to younger riders with the launch of teen accounts in Phoenix. Teenagers aged 14–17 can now sign up for an account on Waymo ... read more

Garmin has announced that a free Google Maps app is now available for most of the company’s smartwatches that lets you know where and how far your next turn is ... read more

Google and Microsoft have made significant changes in the ways they court publishers - partly driven by rising demand for sustainable ad inventory in programmatic buying and production, as well as automation, AI, competition and ... read more