LAS VEGAS – Amazon Ads and Publicis Media unveiled new research on interactive video advertising at CES 2026. The joint thought leadership study focuses on interactive formats in streaming TV. “Yes, we’re really excited to ... read more

LONDON – Linear television viewing is declining across major European markets, driving a corresponding drop in advertising spend, says Andy Jones, VP of broadcast and connected television, EMEA, at PubMatic. The shift is consistent across ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIF – Retail media networks are evolving beyond their own websites, as platforms increasingly leverage transaction data to target consumers across the open web and connected television. U.S. commerce media ad spend ... read more

If you're one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue. What was the issue? ... read more

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is in line to potentially earn $35 billion in stock options, so long as the company hits a $100 billion market cap. One way to hit ... read more

The app monitors the heart rates of divers in real time, analyzing heartrate changes, and quickly detecting danger signals. ... read more

Shopping across Google's platforms will soon roll out supported by the "Universal Commerce Protocol" standard, allowing Shopify merchants to sell directly in AI Mode in Google Search and the Gemini app. ... read more

This week, Google announced a new AI Inbox view for Gmail that replaces the traditional list of emails with an AI-generated list of to-dos and topics to track based on ... read more

Open standards and tools announced this week will solve problems in real-time through intuitive multimodal interactions across phone, mobile and the web in more than 40 languages. ... read more

Wing is bringing drone delivery to even more Walmart stores in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its drones will be flying above 150 more locations this year, including ... read more

For a while, it seemed like everyone had a TiVo. It was a plot point on major TV shows; it had A-list Hollywood fans; it became a verb as ubiquitous ... read more

Not every phone needs to be a black rectangle. It's January, which means there's a whole year of rectangular glass slabs ahead of us. But before that happens, I managed ... read more

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the action (and inaction) of lawmakers seeking to rein in tech ... read more

In 2023, what was then still called Twitter, open-sourced at least portions of the code that decided what it served up in your feed. But that GitHub repository is hopelessly ... read more

A giant version of Lockin’s wirelessly charged V7 smart lock was a showstopper on the CES show floor. I picked Aqara's Smart Lock U400 and Roborock's Saros Rover robot vacuum ... read more

The FCC approved SpaceX's plan to launch an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites on Friday. That brings the total number of satellites the company will have in orbit to around ... read more

The start of the year is typically a great time to snag deals on health and fitness gear, including trackers and wireless earbuds, and this week was no exception. We ... read more

Put this ball under your board. Keychron announced new mechanical keyboards with marathon battery life at CES, but this trackball stole the spotlight. The Nape Pro is Keychron's first trackball, ... read more

Is this… bliss? | Screenshot: Nathan Edwards / The Verge Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop. In November, I got fed up and said screw it, ... read more

At CES this year, humanoid robots appeared to be closer than ever to moving into our homes. LG introduced CLOiD, a household robot it says can handle chores like preparing ... read more

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer here at The Verge and, they say, “I cover a little bit of just about everything, from the FCC to AI shopping tools to ... read more

Diora might be the most ambitious game I've played on the Playdate. It's all about perspective: You turn the handheld's crank to rotate your viewpoint of the bite-size 3D landscapes, ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 111, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you had a wonderful holiday season, ... read more

Games Done Quick, the biannual charity speedrunning event currently going on right now, not only helps organizations like the Prevent Cancer Foundation and Doctors Without Borders - it helps indie ... read more

Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to "triple your crypto," according to a ... read more

Amazon could be taking another, even bigger swing at physical stores, this time with a Walmart-like supercenter. On Tuesday, the Orland Park Plan Commission in the Chicago suburb Orland Park, ... read more

X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by ... read more

The splitR Auracast transceiver can attach to an iPhone’s MagSafe spot. One of the issues holding Auracast back from wider mainstream use is some companies' lack of support for the ... read more

Buddyo is a smart base designed to add AI to figurines like Funko Pops using NFC tags. AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at CES this year, but ... read more

Interactive video ads make more of an impact than you might expect, according to new research by Amazon Ads and Publicis Media. But when it comes to interactivity, “Simplicity is key,” said Maggie Zhang, head ... read more

While the official Grok app allows anyone to generate AI images for free, the Grok account issued a statement this week that it will no longer generate and edit images on the platform for non-paying ... read more

While the official Grok app allows anyone to generate AI images for free, the Grok account issued a statement this week that it will no longer be generating and editing images on the platform for ... read more

The tech moguls in happier times (at Trump’s inauguration.) Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I ... read more

The "Lego Ruler". | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge We just gave the Lego Smart Brick our Best In Show award at CES 2026, and I wanted to ... read more

Google rolled out emoji reactions to personal Gmail accounts a little over two years ago, and I completely forgot about it until now - probably because the option is hidden ... read more

On Thursday evening in Manhattan's Financial District, hundreds of protesters braved the cold to protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after an agent fatally shot a woman at close ... read more

Hollywood's long-standing youth obsession (now reinforced by algorithms, AI-assisted development tools and risk-averse commissioning models) is increasingly out of step with what audiences actually want to watch. ... read more

Netflix and Goop Kitchen partnered on a "Hot Bianca" gluten-free white pizza to promote the debut of mystery series "His & Hers." ... read more

The launch of an AI image editing feature on xAI’s Grok has caused chaos on X after it was used to generate a flood of non-consensual sexualized deepfakes. As Hayden ... read more

Meta has forged agreements with three nuclear power providers in an effort to secure the vast amount of electricity it needs to power AI data centers. The agreements with TerraPower ... read more

In an interview with Netflix's Tudum, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker announced today that the sci-fi anthology series will be returning for an eighth season. "Well, luckily it does have ... read more

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting ... read more

As an industry, we are still collectively looking the other way when billions of dollars in ad spend are effectively being set on fire. ... read more

Lego’s new sets will make Star Wars sound effects for you. | Image: Lego It may have been one of the smallest devices announced at CES 2026, but Lego's new ... read more

The new law "restricts wide swaths of First Amendment activity -- including on many websites that have no conceivable connection to any of the alleged harms the Commonwealth purports to target," NetChoice argues. ... read more

Shadowheart contemplates a powerful artifact in Baldur’s Gate 3 Following some controversy, the developers at Baldur's Gate 3 creator Larian Studios have further clarified their use of generative AI. CEO ... read more

Lyft for the first time has added interactivity and haptics technology in a new ad unit for its app. Haptics is technology that can create an experience of touch by applying forces, vibrations or motions. ... read more

Apple and Google are being dragged into the uproar around X's AI chatbot that has continued to virtually undress women in images without their consent this week. In a ... read more

Meta can now ask the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to decide whether Facebook's terms of service require it to combat fraudulent ads. ... read more

In an AI-mediated world, the MRM practice is engineering how to manage the relationships between agents representing consumers and brands. ... read more

We saw a ton of cool new products at CES 2026, but not all of them made the cut when it came to deciding what was best of show. One ... read more

The Champ Stack 10K is one of the first power banks you can safely break in two. | Image: Nimble Accessory maker Nimble announced a new power bank at CES ... read more

Mira is a hormone testing kit that I tried out ahead of CES 2026. I had to pee in that cup. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday ... read more

She joins from Publicis where she was CEO of Publicis Collective, a unit within Publicis Media that designs custom teams comprising media strategy, planning, buying, data, technology, commerce, and performance to serve larger clients. ... read more

This year's CES was an odd one. This is a conference usually dominated by futuristic, expensive TVs and futuristic, expensive cars, but those things weren't what dominated CES 2026. Instead, ... read more

Walmart is integrating purchase data into influencer planning on Meta platforms, Pymnts reports. The goal is to use transaction history to identify which influencer audiences are most likely to buy.  ... read more

Social and search may be critical, but there is a "Third Pillar" of app growth: Mobile OEM advertising, Business of Apps reports. Some incorrectly believe that OEM advertising is a niche channel, or one to be used only for certain ... read more

Elon Musk’s X has suffered a 60% decline in UK revenue in the last year, due to concerns over the content on the platform, The Guardian reports. This news comes after X switched the image-creation ... read more

Kia unveiled the EV2, a small and affordably priced electric vehicle built for the European market. The EV2 made its debut at the Brussels Auto Show, where executives touted it ... read more

Through partnerships with major holding companies and agencies, Nvidia developed a generative AI content engine built on the Omniverse platform, which enables creative teams to produce 2D and 3D ads in minutes rather than weeks. ... read more

A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout. CES is a lot — a deluge of consumer tech surrounded by lots of bad carpeting. The ... read more

Elon Musk's X has partially restricted access to Grok's image editing capabilities amid growing backlash to the flood of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors generated by the platform. ... read more

When Colbert leaves, CBS will exit the late-night talk-show arena after more than three decades. ... read more

The first video I saw of the Minneapolis shooting was bad enough. Shortly after I saw it, I had the terrible realization that there were multiple people in the clip ... read more

For years, interactive CTV advertising was the star of industry demos – promising, flashy and mostly theoretical. In 2025, they finally made the leap from proof of concept to practice. The post Interactive CTV Ads Were ... read more

Every January, the world of consumer electronics heads to Las Vegas to spend the first full week of the year in the desert presenting, prodding, and gawking at all the ... read more

Microsoft is making it a lot faster and easier to add links to text inside Word documents. Instead of having to open a menu item to insert a link or ... read more

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: Quarterly Revenue Planning appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Amazon touts its Marketing Cloud, but buyers have concerns; OpenAI's ad biz may face challenges; and in-chat shopping isn't all it's cracked up to be. The post Amazon Strives For Streaming Ad Dominance; Everything But ... read more

New year, same problems. Even with Google’s U-turn to keep third-party cookies in Chrome, the race for first-party data hasn’t slowed. If anything, generative AI has accelerated this long-term trend by promising to lower the barrier ... read more

This year, TechRadar publisher Future wants to win the AI visibility game. Future — which also owns U.S. titles including Tom’s Guide, Who What Wear, Marie Claire, and Ideal Home in the U.K. — rolled ... read more

Walmart is going all in on artificial intelligence and agentic technologies for its ad platform. What was a retail media arms race has morphed into an agentic AI race so far this year, and Walmart ... read more

2026 will be the year authenticity gets repriced in the creator economy.  The importance, reach, and financial power of the creator economy is well-established — now everyone is fighting for a piece of the pie. ... read more

CES functioned less as a turning point than a temperature check for the ad industry. Behind the stage demos and glossy AI announcements, the advertising industry arrived in Las Vegas with a quieter set of ... read more

After testing proprietary facial-recognition technology in December, Roblox has announced it is rolling out new mandatory age verification measures to users across the globe. ... read more

Disney+ will start up short-form video content for a wide variety of content and programming in a "vertical" video effort, where new "tiles" on short-form content will appear on its streaming platforms. ... read more

Towerborne, a side-scrolling action RPG published by Xbox Game Studios that has been available in early access, will officially launch on February 26th. But instead of launching as a free-to-play, ... read more

The Pioneer Sphera can be installed into a single-DIN space in your dash. I fully believe that once someone hears Dolby Atmos music in their car, they won't want anything ... read more

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the country will take action against X following reports that the platform's Grok AI chatbot is generating sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors, as ... read more

So much is changing, particularly for those of us working in highly technology-driven industries. I can't wait to see what happens with AI. ... read more

Andrea Mallard joined Pinterest as its first CMO and later took on responsibility for product design, communications and youth safety. ... read more

In November, Reckitt selected WPP to handle its media assignment across 21 European markets. ... read more

While 72% of consumers still shop in physical stores, AI-assisted behaviors are already mainstream. ... read more

New York is questioning Instacart about its compliance with a new state law requiring companies to disclose their use of algorithms that set prices based on personal data. ... read more

Brands avoiding X for any reason may be purchasing advertising on the platform through Google Ads without realizing it. ... read more

Gamers, roll up! CES is always jam-packed with new laptop announcements, acting as a barometer for the year's upcoming releases. The proofs of concept at the show display what could ... read more

FIFA has announced it will broadcast clips of games from the 2026 World Cup tournament directly on the social video-sharing app. ... read more

As part of a few changes to its search filters, YouTube is going to allow you to search specifically for Shorts or longform videos. Right now, a filter-less search shows ... read more

This year's CES innovations prove "skin-deep" is plenty deep for diagnostics, personalization and product recommendations. ... read more

Last year, Tesla defied its critics by boldly launching a robotaxi service that, by the end of the year, required no human supervision and was available to over 50 percent ... read more

Crawford was Omnicom's President and CEO from 1989 until 1995, when he became Chairman and CEO. He was succeeded by John Wren in the CEO role in 1997 and remained chairman until stepping down in ... read more

Nothing’s Ear (a) come in a bright yellow color, though you can also buy them in black and white. The new year has brought a wave of deals on wireless ... read more

Datamasters allegedly purchased and sold contact information for people with Alzheimer's disease and other medical issues. ... read more

Let’s take bets on how much Hayao Miyazaki would hate this. You can't shake a stick without hitting an AI gadget at CES this year, with artificial smarts now embedded ... read more

The clips are filmed from different angles. Some are zoomed in, making them indecipherably grainy, and others are slowed down. Some are 20 seconds while others are longer, sandwiched by ... read more

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, could help make history with a new project unveiled on Wednesday, the Lazuli Space Observatory. As reported by Science, the telescope ... read more

While OpenAI designed ChatGPT Health to help users better understand their health patterns over time, not to replace clinical care or give medical diagnoses, the site allows more than a dozen apps from companies like ... read more

Microsoft is launching a new feature in Copilot that will allow you to make purchases during conversations with the AI chatbot. Now, when you're asking for suggestions about what kind ... read more

The Satechi EX3 Wireless Keyboard comes with a number pad and navigation keys. Satechi is launching a new pair of wireless keyboards with a rechargeable battery designed for easy replacement. ... 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. Every year, TV makers ... read more