I don't publish Red, White & Blogs like this because I want to change the country. I publish them so the country doesn't change me. ... read more

A one-camera mockumentary-style comedy about college cheerleading is virtually sneaking onto NBC this week. ... read more

Jacob Elordi. For Mike Hill and Guillermo del Toro, it all started with Frankenstein. Years ago, Hill - a sculptor and special effects artist - was exhibiting his works at ... read more

Redmagic’s latest phone is as subtle looking as ever. The Redmagic 11 Pro is the first phone (outside of a OnePlus concept design, at least) to feature true liquid cooling, ... read more

Google says it has pulled AI model Gemma from its AI Studio platform after a Republican senator complained the model, designed for developers, “fabricated serious criminal allegations” about her.  In ... read more

Love me some lavender. Logitech's Alto Keys K98M mechanical keyboard is now available in North America after its initial launch in China and other select markets. The $149.99 Alto Keys ... read more

We’ve all heard of the “privacy paradox.” People insist that privacy matters to them, expressing a strong desire to protect their personal data. Yet they readily share information, either for the sake of convenience or ... read more

The top two Halloween weekend movies this year could only muster around $8 million each - drama/romance "Regretting You" and horror-content "Black Phone 2." ... read more

Ad Context Protocol (AdCP) is being sold as a magic bullet. But let’s be honest: Your first AdCP project is probably going to fail. It won’t fail because the protocol is bad; it will fail ... read more

The Trade Desk is going after Amazon; Facebook creators are going after Meta; and everybody’s going after Warner Bros. Discovery. The post Waah Waah Call The Ad-bulance; Meta’s Customer Disservice appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Advertisers used to call the weeks following Halloween heading into Christmas the “hard eight”. Today, the commercial calendar is morphing in the face of altered shopping habits and brands that refuse to wait a month ... read more

There’s a certain irony when an agency holding company is winning clients but its global CEO puts the majority of its agency holdings into play for possible sale. In fact, to some it may be ... read more

The AI search era is rewiring the goal from ranking to visibility, and publishers are slowly but steadily tuning their playbooks. Think of it as zero-click mechanics. That means optimizing for citations, tracking and interpreting ... read more

The story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail Target’s widespread corporate layoffs this week trimmed down teams throughout the company, leaving some who remain picking up responsibilities from those affected. The layoffs included ... read more

Reach, a UK-based news publisher with 120 titles that include Mirror, Express and Daily Record, is looking to news aggregation platforms to diversify traffic sources amid the threat of a zero-click future. “We’re making new ... read more

Automakers are spending less on national TV, as seen in data from September, third quarter and year-to-date, according to iSpot.tv. ... read more

Most publications and authors do not admit AI use, the University of Maryland reports. ... read more

Spooky season is over, which means it's officially Mariah Carey season. It also means streaming services are already loading up on Christmas movies. On pure principle, they'll be omitted here ... read more

Marketers need to demand more of artificial intelligence than just seeing it as a tool to find the lowest-cost ad prices. “AI shouldn’t be just finding cheap CPMs. No one wins at that. It’s about ... read more

LAS VEGAS –Instore retail media represents the “natural evolution” of the broader retail media category, said Marlow Nickell, founder of Grocery TV. Speaking with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan at the Groceryshop convention, Nickell said the ... read more

“Value” is far more than a financial metric — it’s about driving meaningful change for clients’ businesses, said Stephan Indich, executive vice president and head of integrated investment at Interpublic Group’s Mediahub Worldwide. While cost ... read more

Lake Mungo is haunting and heartbreaking. Found footage movies are tough to pull off. For every classic like The Blair Witch Project or Rec, there are 100 movies like Slender ... read more

The Microsoft Zune is mostly just a footnote in tech history. Microsoft spent years - and vast sums of money - trying to create a true competitor to Apple's iPod, ... read more

There is no more chaotic activity than willfully entering a grocery store without a list. I know. Some people thrive on vibes-based grocery shopping. They can come up with meals ... read more

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the real-world effects of Trump's tariffs, follow Mia Sato. The Stepback ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 104, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Halloween, and also you can ... read more

Google’s last-gen Pixel Watch 3 is on sale for $199.99 ($100 off) for a limited time. There are plenty of good smartwatches out there, and Google’s last-gen Pixel Watch 3 ... read more

Ayaneo is best known for its retro gaming handhelds, but the company has now confirmed its first phone will be coming soon. Ayaneo briefly teased that it was working on ... read more

Best Buy’s latest doorbuster deal nets you a cool $770 off the regular price. | Image: The Verge Best Buy’s early Black Friday deals are already live, with discounts to ... read more

The Find X9 Pro features a large battery, but it’s still a pretty slender device. Whenever I review a phone, one of the first things I do after setting it ... read more

We're living in a wonderful period for puzzle games. Seemingly everyone, from The New York Times to Linkedin, has fun puzzles to play, so every morning I have plenty of ... read more

Rockstar Games, the developer of  Grand Theft Auto VI, fired between 30 to 40 employees on Thursday, as previously reported by  Bloomberg. According to the Independent Workers’ Union of Great ... read more

Reddit reported another strong revenue quarter in its latest performance update, increasing its total intake by 68% and its ad intake by 74% vs. the previous year. ... read more

Maryland resident Barry Glazer is seeking to revive a lawsuit against Meta Platforms over ads for counterfeit coins. ... read more

Filling in a gap in its previous earnings report, Microsoft has announced LinkedIn engagement statistics, highlighting major increases in post comments and video views. ... read more

Google is experimenting with many versions of ads, and not all have made it into mainstream use. Here's one that has not seen much traction. ... read more

Sling TV has agreed to pay $530,000 settle privacy charges in California, including an allegation that it failed to offer state residents a simple way to opt out of the use of their data for ... read more

Microsoft’s new Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like navigation experience to Windows PC gaming handhelds, is coming to another family of devices: the MSI Claw. As part ... read more

Microsoft is bringing shared audio to Windows 11, allowing you to stream audio across two pairs of wireless headphones, speakers, earbuds, or hearing aids. The feature is built using the ... read more

Dolby Atmos, the dominant name behind spatial audio in theaters and the home, has become a fixture in luxury cars from the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Rivian, Cadillac, and Lucid priced ... read more

You can save up to $160 off Bose headphones and earbuds right now. | Image: The Verge It’s almost November, and to celebrate, retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy ... read more

If you are hiring in marketing, now is a great time, as there is lots of talent out there looking for a job! ... read more

“We got hacked,” members of the University of Pennsylvania community were told in the subject line of several emails sent from addresses linked to its Graduate School of Education. The ... read more

Project Frame Forward takes any change you make to the first frame of a video and applies it across the entire footage. Adobe demonstrated some of the experimental AI tools ... read more

Politics aside - or implied - that's how new research from "everything-in-between" agency Bailey Lauerman divvies America up with implications for brands, as well as voting. ... read more

Donkey Kong Bananza is $61.99 ($8 off) at Woot. There haven’t been a lot of opportunities to catch Switch 2 games on sale since the console launched in early June, ... read more

Google today launched its first fully AI-generated ad, featuring a turkey looking for airline flights through the AI Mode search tool to fly the coop - any day but Thanksgiving. ... read more

Yet another rumor suggests that Netflix is interested in buying Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming businesses. On Friday, Reuters reported that Netflix is “actively exploring” a bid for the ... read more

A definitely real, existent phone. Almost exactly a month ago, I wrote an article for theverge.com pointing out that the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version) — a.k.a. the Trump phone — ... read more

A growing number of Americans are rethinking their streaming habits as subscription costs rise and household budgets tighten, according to new data from CivicScience. The research firm, which collects over a million consumer survey responses ... read more

Full apps can be run on the hub’s 3-inch touchscreen, including a DOS emulator for retro games. | Image: Creative Creative, the company best known for its Sound Blaster line ... read more

AI agents have become popular as they link consumers with brands, but some execs and developers are concerned that an open ecosystem for these tools could expose client secrets. ... read more

The FCC is moving to dismantle a rule requiring internet service providers to publish detailed “nutrition labels” for their service plans, just over a year after the requirement went into ... read more

Patents are notoriously difficult to search for, but Perplexity has launched an AI-powered tool that’s supposed to make the process a little easier. Its new patent research agent allows you ... read more

Legacy media companies want smaller, more aggressive business units - and at the same time, more control. Can this work? ... read more

That's actually the title of a new, comprehensive communications planning study released by WPP Media, which reinforces half a century of comparable studies -- at least until agents are the ones making the decisions. ... read more

More than 20 Disney-owned channels, including ESPN, ABC, and Nat Geo, have been pulled from YouTube TV after Google and Disney failed to reach a new content distribution agreement. The ... read more

With the second-gen Ultra Earbuds, Bose has again delivered top-notch noise-canceling performance. Bose has built its modern reputation on noise-canceling performance, offering the best in class for a good two ... read more

Music is obviously a huge part of KPop Demon Hunters. Songs are how the Huntr/x girls connect to their human fans and keep hordes of demons from entering the mortal ... read more

One of the biggest flashpoints for internet regulation, the Kids Online Safety Act, is poised for a revival - but possibly without the central feature that's kept people fighting over ... read more

What is AGI? We know it stands for Artificial General Intelligence. That's a good start. But what does AGI mean, really? And how do we know when we've achieved it? ... read more

Roku says streaming hours on its platforms have climbed 4.5 billion year-over-year to 36.5 billion during the third quarter. ... read more

Three areas of growth include Tubi, rising ad inventory pricing on Fox News Channel and NFL programming. ... read more

As expected, tech scion David Ellison is taking a hands-on approach to managing and shaping the new company formed from the merger of Skydance Media and Paramount. ... read more

Keep burning through your video generation allowance on Sora? No problem, OpenAI now lets you buy extra credits to make even more AI videos. That’s good, because the company says ... read more

The Task Manager isn’t managing its tasks. | Image: u/Hary06 If you’re a Windows 11 user who frequently uses the Task Manager tool, you should probably avoid Microsoft’s latest OS ... read more

With its wide adoption and independent membership, Prebid is powerful. We discuss Transaction IDs and the remedies phase of the antitrust trial with those inside and outside the org to better understand this open-source project. ... read more

For big ad platforms that command their own media environments, standard web measurement benchmarks can seem like an awkwardly low bar. A viewable ad, by the IAB’s accepted definition, is one in which 50% of ... read more

Ignoring the fact that early pioneers in the space didn’t plan to have ads in the first place (looking at you, Netflix!), even with targeting and personalization, most major players are still thinking of national ... read more

Enjoy this weekly comic from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: It’s Coming For You appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

No More Rose-Tinted Glasses Cindy Rose joined WPP earlier this year with a turnaround plan for the world’s one-time biggest ad buyer and agency holdco. Easier said than done.  WPP’s like-for-like revenue less pass-through costs ... read more

Related Insights The Programmatic Marketer The great TID controversy takes another turn as Prebid moves to clarify its position  Read More The latest transparency saga to engulf the ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail The corner office in retail has rarely felt so precarious. More than 1,500 chief executives have left their posts so far this year through August, ... read more

Amazon is leaning hard on a familiar message this holiday season: its ad tech isn’t just for buying its ad inventory. The company wants advertisers to see its demand-side platform as the backbone for buying ... read more

Based on its recent earnings, WPP’s financial outlook (and perhaps the traditional agency model overall) looks glib. But the holding company is banking on its AI arsenal, including its newly launched self-service platform aimed at ... read more

A senior marketer at a major WPP Media client told me recently they’re thinking about shopping around for a new agency. That, in itself, isn’t surprising, especially after WPP’s new CEO Cindy Rose, publicly admitted ... read more

In its Q3 report, Meta showed significant increases in video consumption and active social media users and strong results for its ad business, but took a massive 83% net profit drop due to a tax ... read more

Amid big gains in consumer spending and cloud computing, company says layoffs helped "remove layers." ... read more

Reddit took a victory lap on its Q3 earnings call on Thursday. For the first time, the social platform achieved its pre-IPO profitability goal of 40% adjusted EBITDA, said CEO Steve Huffman. Reddit is also ... read more

Jay Parikh in 2018. | Photo: Andrej Sokolow / Getty Images This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just ... read more

If Roku’s third quarter earnings call could be distilled into a single phrase, it would be “early days.” (With “bullish” as a runner-up, perhaps.) The post Roku’s Recent Investments In DSPs and Performance Are Still ... read more

Republicans are less trusting than Democrats, and older people are more trusting than young Americans. ... read more

Tim Cook says Apple has plans to embed more third-party AI tools into the company’s operating systems. “Our intention is to integrate with more people over time,” Cook said in ... read more

Reddit plans to launch its own AI campaign ad tool for advertisers in the not too distant future. The platform is already alpha testing an end-to-end automated campaign experience for performance advertisers, joining the likes ... read more

Meta Platforms' users are seeking to revive their claim that Facebook monopolized the market for "personal social network services." ... read more

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 Pro received a decent price drop during Amazon’s October Prime Day sale, but if you held off on picking them up, your patience has been rewarded. ... read more

The outage prevented advertisers from accessing the Microsoft Advertising console, but its ad serving was not affected. ... read more

Snap Inc spent $57.7 million on ad expenditures in 2024, according to its annual report for that year. ... read more

AT&T on Thursday sued the self-regulatory group National Advertising Division over its demand that the carrier pull the television commercial Ain't Our First Rodeo. ... read more

A real-time streaming architecture is being developed as the next step for multi-agent systems, allowing autonomous AI agents to act as personal shoppers on behalf of consumers and carry out business tasks and transactions. ... read more

Earlier this year, Apple sued leaker Jon Prosser alongside Michael Ramacciotti, alleging the two had a “coordinated scheme to break into an Apple development iPhone, steal Apple’s trade secrets, and ... read more

Amid a swirl of new "end-to-end" AI agency launches, I sat down with the CEO of one of them -- TheBrief.ai's Tammy Nam -- to get the skinny on their business model, how they differentiate ... read more

YouTube has introduced a new like button on select videos that rewards your engagement with a brief animation. The feature was first announced in mid-October as part of a slate ... read more

These are the first Vivo phones to run OriginOS outside of China. Vivo’s flagship X300 and X300 Pro only launched in China two weeks ago, but they’re getting an international ... read more

Snapchat has announced its first Lens designed to scan the surface of the moon as part of an Xbox gaming launch. ... read more

Microsoft has officially released its Windows 11 remote desktop feature across Meta’s Quest 3 and Quest 3S headsets. The feature can beam multiple high-resolution monitors to your Quest headset, while ... read more

This “OS” won’t be running your computer or mobile device. Canva is introducing new digital marketing and video-editing tools, built around what the company is calling a “world-first” design-focused AI ... read more

The smart button pusher is down to one of its best prices. You don’t necessarily have to buy a bunch of pricey new smart devices to enjoy the convenience of ... read more

NBCU says the increase in business was primarily driven by Peacock. Ad dollars for the year-ago Q3 period for the Olympics totaled $1.4 billion. ... read more

A photo from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. This week, as part of its big layoffs, an Amazon exec said that the company is halting a ... read more