Facebook and Instagram are breaching Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) rules related to the handling of illegal content, moderation, and transparency, according to a preliminary decision issued by the European ... read more

Enjoy this weekly comic from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: Well, This Is Embarrassing… appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Through seven weeks of the NFL regular season, average viewership is now 2.4% higher to 18.5 million viewers. ... read more

WPP puts AI tools in the hands of brands; YouTube's dynamic sponsored segments could redefine creator monetization; and Hollywood is getting into “microdramas." The post The DIY Agency; YouTube’s Dynamic Change appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Holiday shopping (and thus, holiday marketing campaigns) seem to begin earlier every year. But for many content creators, the annual Q4 brand deals this year are increasingly coming together at the eleventh hour. More often ... read more

Out-of-control new business reviews are placing a burden on media and creative agencies competing for work. According to media agency executives who spoke to Digiday anonymously, client requests for agencies to respond to pitch invitations ... read more

This story was originally published by sister site, Modern Retail. Regional department store Von Maur is on a mission to bring more brands to shoppers in the heartland.  The retailer, founded in 1872 in Davenport, ... read more

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The latest thing keeping marketers up at night about AI isn’t deepfakes or disinformation — it’s SpongeBob.  The cartoon character has become an unlikely mascot for the flood of AI-generated videos taking over feeds, blurring ... read more

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With Windows 10 on its last legs, Intel is looking forward to the PC industry growing more than it has in years - the most since 2021, when the covid-19 ... read more

Microsoft is joining the AI browser wave with the official launch of a new “Copilot Mode” in Edge. The option, first announced in July, turns Copilot into your portal to ... read more

The race to make the Lego Game Boy play actual Game Boy games ended before it even began. The same day Lego officially launched the set, Natalie the Nerd revealed ... read more

Nike announced its new Aero-FIT performance cooling technology. Nike is showing off new performance apparel today that it says it designed with climate change in mind. It introduced its new ... read more

If you’re tight on time to read through your backlog of books, audiobooks might be a more convenient way to get caught up. Amazon is offering a steep discount on ... read more

Google’s latest pledge to support a new clean energy technology is… a gas project? To be precise, it’s a gas-fired power plant outfitted with filtering devices to capture its planet-heating ... read more

EA is partnering with Stability AI, the company that develops the Stable Diffusion AI image model, to help infuse AI into its development processes. The two companies will “co-develop transformative ... read more

Google is urging a federal judge to scrap a jury's decision that the company violated mobile device users' privacy by collecting analytics data from them. ... read more

Google is urging a federal judge to scrap a jury's decision that the company violated mobile device users' privacy by collecting analytics data from them. ... read more

Amazon is rolling out an AI-powered tool that will recommend specific products, or influence the purchase, when shoppers feel overwhelmed with options or just cannot decide on the products they want to buy. ... read more

Snap's Imagine Lens marks the company's first generative-AI lens dictated by free-form text prompts, pushing past its 2023 Dreams Lens, which uses AI to generate fantastical image-based alternatives to a user's selfies. ... read more

Two weeks ago, YouTube began rolling out the ability for some previously banned creators to rebuild their presence on the platform by requesting access to a new channel and accepting a formal review of in-app ... read more

On Thursday, Nike announced Project Amplify, “the world’s first powered footwear system,” which it says isn’t intended for pros—in fact, quite the opposite. Much like e-bikes provide pedal assistance, Project ... read more

Fallout 4 will turn 10 on November 10th, and to celebrate the milestone, Bethesda is releasing a new anniversary edition of the game that same day on PC, PS4, PS5, ... read more

The portable speaker can also charge your phone in a pinch. | Image: The Verge As much as I love decorations, it’s the music that really gets me into the ... read more

Changpeng Zhao, former chief executive officer of Binance, arrives at federal court. Changpeng Zhao, the founder of crypto exchange Binance, was pardoned by President Trump today, according to the Wall ... read more

A divided federal panel has preserved a preliminary injunction that prohibits the FTC from investigating the watchdog Media Matters and its possible role in what the agency described "potentially unlawful advertiser boycotts." ... read more

Krafton, the company behind games such as PUBG: Battlegrounds and the Sims-like InZOI, is making a big push into using AI within the company. Under this new “AI First” strategy, ... read more

Three of the rumored potential buyers for entertainment titan Warner Bros. Discovery are tech companies. Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are all interested in buying Warner Bros. Discovery as a whole ... read more

Anthropic is rolling out an update for Claude that will let the AI chatbot “remember” past conversations without prompting. The upgrade for all paid subscribers should make Claude more useful ... read more

Nintendo Switch 2 owners will have just a little bit longer to venture into The Lands Between. Developer FromSoftware announced today that its upcoming port of the open-world RPG Elden ... read more

It’s been nearly 30 years since Microsoft’s Office assistant, Clippy, first graced our screens as an annoying paperclip. After the Groucho-browed interruptions of Clippy came to an end in 2001 ... read more

Microsoft is rolling out some significant changes to its Copilot AI assistant today. There’s a new groups feature that connects multiple people into a Copilot chat, memory to let Copilot ... read more

The BrickBoy takes about five minutes to install on an already build Lego Game Boy. | Image: Kickstarter Talented Game Boy modder Natalie the Nerd was the first to turn ... read more

Well, that’s not very subtle. In an earnings call last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he needs more control over Tesla, as well as a pay package that ... read more

It's called WPP Open Pro, designed as a self-serve marketing platform where big and small brands alike can plan, create and publish campaigns independently. ... read more

It's called WPP Open Pro, designed as a self-serve marketing platform where big and small brands alike can plan, create and publish campaigns independently. ... read more

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. What if you could make ... read more

Amazon is launching a new AI-powered tool that’s supposed to help you choose which product to buy. Now, when you look at multiple similar items on Amazon’s app or mobile ... read more

But nearly half of U.S. adults say the news makes them feel informed, a positive emotion associated with media. ... read more

Google is expanding its AI features within Google Earth. It’s now easier to chat with Google Earth AI models, introduced in July, to identify infrastructure vulnerable to an oncoming storm, ... read more

Some jaw-dropping stats: we spend 80% of our waking hours consuming media, including 5.3 trillion-plus ads each year. That's trillion with a T. ... read more

The Razer logo on the trackpad is less apparent on the black version (also, Razer got the stick layout right this time). | Image: Razer Razer is launching the Raiju ... read more

And those cost-cutting measures are seemingly working. Pressure from Microsoft to achieve industry-topping profit margins has led to Xbox being butchered over the last two years, after not imposing specific ... read more

The best ads are answers to questions consumers have about products and services. That's how Vidhya Srinivasan, VP and general manager of ads and commerce, described Google Ads in a blog post celebrating the 25th ... read more

The new X-T30 III is the same size as the previous model and features the same 26.1MP sensor. | Image: Fujifilm Fujifilm has announced the third iteration of its entry-level ... read more

Pokémon TCG Pocket is about to celebrate its one-year anniversary with a bunch of new features, events, and some very powerful monster cards. Today, the Pokémon Company announced TCG Pocket's ... read more

Netflix is bringing the Stranger Things series finale to theaters. The show’s final episode will hit theaters at the same time it premieres on the streaming service on December 31st ... read more

The agency has been tasked with "reimagining the Jarlsberg brand for the modern American customer." The "Holey Cheese" campaign launched this week across online video, paid social, search, shopper marketing and influencer marketing. ... read more

On Thursday, Comcast Advertising announced that the cable provider’s linear TV inventory will now be available on a targetable, biddable basis for advertisers that want to transact programmatically. The post Comcast Intros Biddable And Programmatic ... read more

You can use Wyze’s new doorbell cam on battery power alone or hardwire it to a power source to access more functionality. | Image: Wyze Wyze has announced a new ... read more

Clean and simple? Yes. Weird and jarring? Also yes. Leica is announcing a new type of M-mount camera, its first that’s not actually a rangefinder. The new M EV1 is ... read more

This week, OpenAI debuted its long-rumored AI browser that aims to put its AI chatbot at the center of the internet. The browser, called ChatGPT Atlas, is entering a space ... read more

Amazon Web Services on Thursday introduced a fully managed service built for real-time bidding ad workloads that supports demand-side platforms and supply-side platforms and other companies including those that focus on fraud detection and brand ... read more

Hightouch's new ID Express solution aims to simplify the process of converting email addresses and phone numbers into UID2s. The post CDP Hightouch Has A Shortcut For Making UIDs appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

So much is going on in the rapidly changing world of Big Media right now that it takes one's breath away. ... read more

Roku's share of the market dipped 3% in Q3 vs. Q2 this year (36% vs. 37%). Apple TV, now in second place, witnessed a sharp 27% gain (to a 15% share). ... read more

Mac wallpaper optional, but encouraged. Ledger’s fifth Nano crypto wallet marks a moment of reinvention: it’s not nearly so “nano” anymore, and Ledger would prefer you didn’t call it a ... read more

The base is the hub of the ADT Plus system. My front door unlocks automatically as I walk up to it, and the home security system disarms itself - no ... read more

If people using platforms that harvest their data were apple trees and the platforms were farms, would the apples belong to the trees or the farm that harvested them? ... read more

Less than two days ago, OpenAI came out swinging in the fight for the future of the internet with the release of ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser it hopes ... read more

A new integration between Amazon and Clinch allows advertisers to access Amazon custom audiences via a third-party platform. The post Amazon Audiences Help Keurig Dr Pepper Improve Personalization And Reach appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

The 15.6-inch Espresso Pro monitor will change your flow. Most gadgets are iterative in the value they bring to our lives. The 15.6-inch Espresso Pro portable monitor is different, having ... read more

Programmatic advertising requires serious real-time computing power. And that bandwidth consumption is only growing as AI takes on a bigger role in deal curation and, eventually, full campaign activation. Which is why AWS debuted a ... read more

The ad dollars are nice but the real prize for Amazon is the infrastructure itself – the rails on which the entire system runs.  Up until now that’s been the quiet part of its ad ... read more

Reddit sues four companies for scraping and selling (and buying) its data; Unity Software's new zero-fee product is good news for mobile developers; and brands aren't thrilled by TikTok shop's latest updates. The post Sour ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife Aruna Ravichandran leads marketing for Webex at Cisco with a 99% remote team, less than 1% attrition and what she calls “maniacal execution.” We caught up ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail ChatGPT is sending more shoppers to e-commerce sites, but most aren’t buying. A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hamburg and the Frankfurt School of ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing looks at how publishers are laying the rails for agent-led buying. We look beyond the hype at the reality of what agents are in play today within publishers’ commercial operations and ... read more

By now, it’s hard to ignore where OpenAI is headed. The executive hints, the ad world hires, the burn rate that would make tech CEO blush – all signs point to advertising. This week’s launch ... read more

A New York Times report on Tuesday cited internal Amazon documents touting how its shift into automation could help it sell more products without hiring more people, but today the ... read more

Meta is planning surprising cuts to an estimated 600 jobs from its Superintelligence AI Labs division. ... read more

Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the company would be able to remove the safety monitors from its robotaxis "by the end of the year." He also said Tesla would launch ... read more

In the commerce media space, few categories of company are in quite as advantageous a position as those which hold the purse strings. For American Express, the bet is that its unique position as both ... read more

Remember when word got out that Amazon was building smart glasses for its delivery drivers before possibly launching a version for consumers as well? Amazon has just revealed those ... read more

Reddit "brings this action to stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content," the company alleged ... read more

After six years as Fandom’s CEO, Perkins Miller is parting ways with the popular wiki hosting platform. While there has yet to be an official announcement, The Verge has learned ... read more

Boxy can be beautiful. Lomography announced a new Lomo MC-A film camera, a 35mm format point-and-shoot with a fixed 32mm f/2.8 lens and metal body. It’s a charmer of a ... read more

Amazon and Rivian are back together again. The e-commerce giant is collaborating with Rivian’s Also spinoff on a custom-designed, pedal-assisted, four-wheel cargo bike. The bike would likely be based on ... read more

With the audience now firmly established in the CTV environment, the focus is turning toward making those impressions count. For some, the next phase of CTV advertising involves moving beyond simple reach to drive tangible ... read more

The captive audience has long been the holy grail of advertising. But what about the audience that is literally captive, buckled into the backseat of a car with an average of 20 minutes to spare? ... read more

Interactive entertainment has become a cornerstone of omnichannel media strategy, said Ben Hovaness, chief media officer at OMD Worldwide. “We see interactive entertainment playing two key roles,” he said in this interview with Beet.TV contributor ... read more

Criterion recently kicked off its semi-annual sale that slashes the cost of all of its in-stock Blu-rays, DVDs, and box sets. The sale will last through 12PM ET, October 23rd. ... read more

HBO Max is rolling out a new rating system that allows you to share feedback about the shows and movies you watch. The streaming service will tweak your recommendations based ... read more

Google recently reversed a trend that had been dragging down the company's search market share for the past nine months. ... read more

Tesla reported a profitable third quarter today, as shoppers scrambled to snatch up the company’s EVs in record numbers before the federal EV tax credit expired. Tesla said it earned $1.4 ... read more

Just a week after rumors about Samsung canceling the Galaxy S26 Edge due to low sales of the ultra-slim S25 Edge, Apple is reportedly notifying its supply chain partners of ... read more

The national database on billion-dollar weather and climate disasters has found a new home after the Trump administration decided to ax it earlier this year. Thanks to researchers continuing the ... read more

Can’t wait for Swifties to review bomb The Life of a Showgirl Pitchfork is going full midlife crisis mode, experimenting with user-generated content, adding comments (when much of the web ... read more

On the cusp of its merger with Omnicom, Interpublic is not releasing a third quarter ad forecast for the first time in years, raising questions about its future. Interpublic has published industry forecasts since 1948. ... read more

Siding with Meta Platforms, a federal judge has thrown out a Maryland resident's lawsuit over Facebook Marketplace ads for phony Morgan silver dollars. ... read more

When it comes to inventive USB-C accessories with rad designs, nobody does it like Sharge. Now it’s following up its classic Mac-inspired chargers, its Braun turntable-inspired battery, and whatever the ... read more

Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to ... read more

Last year, the online transaction company PayPal hired Mark Grether, former CEO of Sizmek, who has also had stints as head of Amazon Advertising and Uber Ads, to lead its nascent advertising division. And in ... read more

The Also TM-B e-bike looks like nothing else. | Image: Rivian Also Rivian’s micromobility spinoff Also has just taken the wraps off its TM-B e-bike, TM-Q pedal-assisted electric quad bike, ... read more

Before RJ Scaringe founded the adventure-themed EV company Rivian, he was thinking about bikes. Well, not bikes exactly. More like pedal-powered hybrid microcars and other forms of alternative transportation. ... read more

The 2026 soccer tournament represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for marketers in the United States, Mexico and Canada. ... read more

If you’re looking to play games like Ghost of Yōtei or Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, you’re going to need a PlayStation 5. Luckily, right now, you can grab ... read more

GM plans to drop support for phone projection on all new vehicles in the near future, and not just its electric car lineup, according to GM CEO Mary Barra. ... read more

Bad creative wastes media dollars AND has a detrimental impact on your brand. ... read more